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...prime minister's visit comes a month before he is due to swap jobs with Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir of the conservative Likud bloc under a power-sharing pact between Likud and the left-of-center Labor Party...
...week's end the Administration's public position perceptibly hardened. Speakes reversed himself, now suggesting that a swap might not be worth considering after all. So did the State Department, but only after its boss spoke up. "Let there be no talk of a trade for Daniloff," Secretary of State Shultz declared in his speech during Harvard's 350th-anniversary celebrations on Friday. "We, and Nick himself, have ruled that out." Calling the arrest of the magazine correspondent an "outrage," Shultz said it "showed the dark - side of a society prepared to resort to hostage taking as an instrument...
Organizers estimated that nearly half of the more than 1000 designated class representatives who arrived here yesterday weren't satisfied with their tickets to celebration events and tried to swap them for others or to get more...
Experts indicated that the Israelis blundered in their strong insistence on the highly charged question of Soviet Jewry. Domestic politics clearly played a large role in the Israeli performance. Under a power-sharing agreement, Shamir and Prime Minister Shimon Peres are due to swap jobs in October. Some government insiders contend that Shamir aimed to undermine the Helsinki talks to deny Peres a foreign policy triumph. Hence, they say, Shamir pushed hard to put Soviet Jewry on the agenda. But if Shamir upstaged Peres in Helsinki, Peres played an impressive card of his own: on Thursday he announced he would...
...Sidney says, "When I was elected, the friendship took a vacation." Sidney threatens to break a sacred buckskin treaty wand if the Navajo do not evacuate Hopi land, which would signify the complete collapse of an ancient vow, and he refuses to entertain notions of a land swap or cash deal to settle matters. Each side is waging a sophisticated publicity campaign, assisted by experienced outside activists. Indeed, for all his talk of "sacred" Hopi lands, Chairman Sidney has posed for pictures in ancient Hopi villages, violating a religious prohibition...