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Agreement had seemed within reach so often, only to slip away, that no one seemed surprised when the ceremony was delayed for five hours on Thursday. After all, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Shamir had been up until 5 a.m. negotiating the last detail. Finally, at 3:45 p.m., the two met again in the Knesset basement. Sitting at a blue cloth-covered table and surrounded by colleagues, Labor Leader Peres and Likud Chief Shamir signed the accord that established a national unity government. Cognac glasses in hand, the new partners toasted the accomplishment with cries of "L 'chayim...
...Labor Party Chairman Shimon Peres and outgoing Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir emerged from a private meeting last Wednesday morning, reporters asked them the crucial question: After almost five weeks of negotiation, had Labor and the ruling Likud bloc agreed to form a government of national unity? Replied Shamir: "Almost...
Under the plan, Peres, 61, will serve as Prime Minister for the first 25 months, while Shamir will become Acting Prime Minister and Foreign Minister. During the next 25 months after that, assuming that the government holds together, the two men will exchange jobs. Yitzhak Rabin, who was Labor Prime Minister from 1974 to 1977, will serve as Defense Minister during the full 50-month term, and the Finance Ministry will go to a Likud member, probably outgoing Energy Minister Yitzhak Moda'i. Former Defense Minister Ariel Sharon, who was a Minister Without Portfolio in the Shamir government...
...months after the final votes were counted in the national elections, Israelis learned who their next Prime Minister would be. Or did they? In three days of tough bargaining last week, Labor Party Leader Shimon Peres agreed to alternate as Prime Minister with the Likud bloc's Yitzhak Shamir in a national unity government. For nearly four weeks, Peres had been trying to build a coalition with Shamir, but the Likud chieftain refused to accept Peres as the country's leader. Peres concluded that he could break the stalemate and form a new government only by sharing Israel...
Peres has problems within his own ranks as well. He has already promised the Defense post to Yitzhak Rabin, his bitter rival and Israel's Prime Minister from 1974 to 1977. Rabin still enjoys strong support within Labor; if Peres does not deliver on his pledge, Rabin could succeed in scuttling a national unity agreement. In addition Mapam, a leftist party that holds six of Labor's 44 seats in the 120-member Knesset, has threatened to quit the Labor alignment if a Labor-Likud government is formed...