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They asked Herzog to delay asking anyone to form a government until the Likud-Alignment negotiations are completed. Herzog also met with represen- tatives of the National Religious Party, the Communist Party and Agudat Israel. He issued a statement that he would not meet with Rabbi Meir Kahane, leader of the Kach Party which won one seat in the Knesset in last week's elections, until Kahane retracted his racist statements about Israeli Arabs and derogatory remarks about the President. Kahane, who warned that he would break into the President's re- sidence if Herzog did not meet with him, protested peacefully outside the President's residence Wednesday morning and then left. Significantly, in the Labor- Likud unity talks Shamir did not in- sist on Likud's leadership of a unity government as a condition, while Peres, in effect, did make Labor's leadership a precondition. Pressed on this specific point by reporters out- side the President's residence, Shamir's reply was: "This is a matter for talks and negotiations. We will discuss everything. Different ideas could come up . ." When a reporter asked, "So you do not reject (a Peres premiership) out of hand?" Shamir replied: "I didn't say anything. We will discuss everything." Peres, questioned on the same issue, replied: "If I heard right, Mr. Shamir said he is ready to honor the election results and to be a member — that is for Likud to be a member — of a government which would in ef- fect reflect the election results. If so, I see this as a great step forward .. . We would then have to discuss joint policy lines . ." Earlier, on the same subject, after emerging from Labor's meeting with Herzog, Peres said: "There are election results and all parties are required to accept them with love and without seeking to overturn them." In other words, as leader of the largest faction — Labor won 44 Knesset seats and Likud 41 — Peres should be Premier of the projected unity government. At their informal meetings with Herzog, the President told both dele- gations that he would not discuss "personnel composition" on this occa- sion, but rather the possibility in principle of a unity government which, he felt, was what the people wanted and what the nation needed. Peres told the waiting reporters that Labor's reply had been "un- quivocal. Like the President, we too feel that all the nation wants a unity government and we are going to re- spond to this desire and to this na- tional need and set up a government that will unify . . . that can tackle the major problems . . . If the task is granted to me, I will attempt to Arabs in the territories were disappointed by the election results. create a national unity government including Likud . . . If the President imposes that task on me I shall ap- proach Shamir and suggest that we meet alone . .." Shamir, facing the same battery of reporters, said the differences be- tween the parties "are not so deep as to be unbridgeable, and .. therefore a unity government is feasible and realistic." As major problems to be tackled, Shamir cited the economy and Leba- non, on both of which, he said, there were "no basic differences of princi- ple" between the major parties. He also listed the "need to strengthen our democracy, by introducing cer- tain changes." Shamir is known to feel strongly that the proliferation of minor par- ties must be prevented in the future by constitutional reform. He believes the present system has become vir- tually unworkable and the govern- ment — any government — can hardly do its job. Later, Shamir's office put out a clarification to the effect that the Premier had certainly not "foregone the Premiership" by his failure categorically to reject the idea of Peres leading a unity government. Meanwhile, West Bank Arab leaders were disappointed by the in- conclusive results of Israel's elec- tions. While most of them had taken an aloof attitude, maintaining that there is little difference between Labor and Likud as far as Palesti- nians are concerned, it was clear that a Labor victory had been hoped for to ease the atmosphere in the territory and perhaps increase chances for a political settlement. Mayor Elias Freij of Bethlehem, one of the few West Bank leaders who had publicly expressed his hope for a Labor victory before the elections,