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...majority of 51 Senators urged him not to admit Arafat. Some members of Congress had been quietly in touch with Jewish representatives. "We didn't want the campaign against Arafat to be an Israeli one; we wanted America to take the lead," explained an Israeli official. But Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir went on record as opposing a visa for Arafat in a mid-November meeting with U.S. Ambassador Tom Pickering...
Coincidentally, another familiar Iran-contra figure, Israeli arms agent and counterterrorism expert Amiram Nir, died last week in the crash of a small Cessna plane in Mexico. The pilot also died, and two passengers were injured. Nir, a former aide to Shimon Peres and to Yitzhak Shamir, worked closely with North in the sale of U.S. arms to Iran, traveled with him to Tehran in the attempted arms-for-hostage exchanges and briefed Vice President Bush on the ill-fated scheme...
...Yitzhak Shamir is virtually besieged. Infuriated American Jewish leaders have descended on Jerusalem to berate the Prime Minister for promising to meddle with Israel's definition of who is a Jew. Thousands of angry calls and letters flooded his office, and secular Israelis took to the streets to denounce religious coercion. Acknowledged one Shamir aide: "I'd say he's got a bit of a problem on his hands. Blood pressures are soaring...
...minimum, Labor wants the Defense post for Yitzhak Rabin, who held it in the previous government, and either Finance or the Foreign Ministry for Peres. Shamir would happily retain Rabin at Defense, but he has yet to offer Peres a major portfolio. Says a senior Likud member: "If Shamir gives Finance and Defense to Labor, he really gives up control of the government...
Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin said the plane and the crew would be returned to the Soviet Union. "The hijackers will be interrogated and Israel will act according to international law," Rabin said. He was quoted as saying later on NBC News that "...those who violated the Russian law" will be returned to Soviet authorities...