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Even as Israel's quarrelsome leaders worked out the details of an unprecedented agreement that brings Yitzhak Shamir to power as Prime Minister this week, the country was suddenly caught up in a looming military crisis. After Israeli air and naval forces attacked Palestinian positions near the Lebanese coastal city of Sidon in retaliation for a terrorist attack near Jerusalem's Western Wall, an Israeli pilot was captured by the Shi'ite Amal militia. At week's end, as Israeli troop strength was beefed up on the Lebanese border, the fragile national unity government in Jerusalem hastily closed ranks...
...center of the crisis was Yitzhak Moda'i, a volatile Likud leader whom Peres had forced to resign as Justice Minister last July. Moda'i had attacked Peres, saying the Prime Minister is "as untutored about law as he is about economics." But last week Shamir decided he wanted Moda'i in his Cabinet. Peres balked. As the new Foreign Minister, Peres was determined that he should be permitted to name a close aide as the new Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. This time Shamir balked...
...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...
...Israelis initially tried to paint a brighter picture, calling the session "candid and correct." But the rhetoric soon heated up. In Jerusalem, Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir declared that Israel had been entitled to raise the emigration issue, since it had a valuable "asset" in the form of 2 million Soviet Jews. In Moscow, Gerasimov retorted, "That is a very arrogant interference in (our) internal affairs. It is like saying that all the Anglo- Saxons in America are the property of the Queen of England...
...Like any other country, we expel illegal aliens." So said Yitzhak Agassi, an official in Israel's Interior Ministry, of the ministry's plan to kick out 46 American-born members of the Black Hebrew sect for overstaying their visas...