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...future of Israel as any that had gone before. Seated at opposite sides of a table decorated with bouquets of daisies at Jerusalem's King David Hotel last week were Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, the head of the Likud Party, and his political rival, Labor Party Leader Shimon Peres. The two men smiled, shook hands and joked with each other. But the outward congeniality belied the serious political deadlock that had brought them together. Nine days before, they had battled to a virtual draw in parliamentary elections. With neither party in command of enough seats to form a majority...
...closer, much closer than Labor had expected or Likud had dared to hope. Broad smiles appeared on the faces of Likud supporters as they burst into applause. Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, it seemed, might have a chance of staying in office. At Labor headquarters, the fans of Party Leader Shimon Peres looked stunned. "It can't be, it can't be," they muttered...
Never was the contrast in the styles of the two men so apparent. Animated, aggressive, sarcastic, Shimon Peres assailed his opponent, all the while calling him "Mr. Shamir" instead of by his official title of Prime Minister. "You have learned to make mistakes," Peres summed up. "We have learned from your mistakes." Yitzhak Shamir did his best to ignore the barbs. Serious, diffident, somewhat plodding, he pledged to tackle the nation's woes more aggressively. Said he: "Elections come and go, but the country stands forever... We must fortify...
Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, 68, who came to his position after Menachem Begin abruptly resigned ten months ago, found his fragile Likud coalition crumbling in March, forcing the Knesset to call the July 23 elections. Shamir faces Shimon Peres, 60, the Labor Party leader who lost twice to Begin (in 1977 and 1981). The two men share a quiet, unruffled style, but their views diverge sharply (see interviews). Neither candidate leaves any doubt as to what is at stake. "It is not that the ship of Israel fell apart, but that it is sailing in the wrong direction," says Peres...
Hoarse from campaigning but buoyant over public opinion polls that show his party in the lead, Labor Leader Shimon Peres discussed the upcoming election last week with TIME Correspondents Harry Kelly and David Halevy...