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...welcome sense of normality to a traumatized nation, he found a supremely embarrassing mess awaiting him: the stained reputation of the vaunted domestic security service, known as the Shin Bet, which answers directly to the Prime Minister. Already shaken by the security lapses that allowed the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, Shin Bet faces new allegations that one of the young religious zealots arrested for involvement in the murder was actually an informer on the service's own payroll. According to Israeli intelligence sources, the informer never told Shin Bet if he had heard the accused assassin, Yigal Amir, threaten...
...great man with an even greater dream has been taken away from us. Let us hope Yitzhak Rabin's vision of peace lives on and succeeds." YUVAL SHAMIR Los Angeles...
...PRIME MINISTER YITZHAK RABIN was a genius soldier [COVER STORIES, Nov. 13]. In diplomacy, he was an honorable peacemaker. His untimely demise is a loss not to the world alone but to all humanity. His death shows that peace is worth dying for if it will allow people to coexist in harmony, free from war. DANNY G. ABUCEJO Cerritos, California...
...GREATEST OBSTACLE TO MIDDLE East peace may not be conflict among nations but within them. Witness the assassinations of Egypt's Anwar Sadat and now Israel's Yitzhak Rabin. Both men were internationally praised for their efforts to institute lasting peace. Both men won Nobel Peace Prizes alongside former enemies. And now both men have died at the hands of their own countrymen. DAVID R. FINE Camp Hill, Pennsylvania Via E-mail...
...Labor Party, newly installed Prime Minister Shimon Peres, 72, named a group of younger politicians to his Cabinet while retaining the key Defense Ministry post as his own. Ehud Barak, 53, the former Interior Minister, was appointed Foreign Minister, the job held by Peres under slain Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Yossi Beilin, 47, was named Minister in the Prime Minister's Office, a new position that will enable him to administer the peace with the Palestinians...