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...election is also a referendum on the legacy of a man who has virtually vanished from public sight: Menachem Begin. Whether proclaiming his dream of Eretz Yisrael, whose biblical boundaries include the West Bank and Gaza Strip, or defending the controversial 1982 war in Lebanon, Begin hewed to a pugnaciously righteous course that evoked passionate reaction from supporter and foe alike, at home and abroad. Without disavowing Begin's policies, Shamir has tried to steer a course that appears more moderate, at least in tone. Peres, who, like Shamir, possesses little of Begin's fiery charisma, opposes much of what...
...list of those accused of taking part. Most of the suspects belong to Gush Emunim, the nationalistic religious group that has spearheaded the Jewish settlement movement in the occupied West Bank. Some are reserve paratroopers and tank commanders in the armed forces. One is a rabbi. The sight of these men, a few in their early 20s and most of them bearded and wearing skullcaps, being led into court has profoundly unsettled the country...
Though out of sight, Begin has not been entirely out of public mind: he has been interviewed on Israeli radio, most recently last week, after the death of his former Deputy Prime Minister, Yigael Yadin...
...disillusionment arises from a feeling that the Continent is mired in political and economic difficulties for which no solution is in sight. Nearly three decades after its birth, the European Community is far from being the incipient United States of Europe that its founders dreamed of. Instead, it is a loose grouping of countries that bicker interminably over farm budgets and milk prices, customs duties and value-added taxes. Economic growth for Western Europe will average only about 2.5% this year, or just half the U.S. rate. Europeans who in the mid-'70s looked...
...Italy's case, the IMF probably served a useful political purpose in bolstering government policy against parliamentary opposition. More commonly, the fund is a political lightning rod, in part because it is so centrally involved in painful, eleventh-hour policymaking. "People lose sight of the fact that the alternative would be even worse," says a senior fund official. "I find it illuminating that some of the most vocal critics of the IMF are in countries whose economies continue to deteriorate because they refuse to follow IMF recommendations...