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SERVING DETROIT'S METROPOLITAN JEWISH COMMUNITY
• coalition talks continue in
fii,;:eael with Likud insisting
Oit negotiating the
einiership that Labor
'a ims as its own.
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Jerusalem (JTA) -- The talks
ligtween the Labor Alignment and
Likud on forming
. a broad-based na-
tional unity government were tinged
sith tension this week as Likud
leaders insisted that the issue of the
premiership should be subject to
'negotiations. Likud, like the Labor
Alignment, wants to continue paral-
• lel negotiations with other parties in
arierfOrt to form the basis for an al-
. ternative coalition should the cur-
rent , efforts by Labor Party leader
Shimon Peres to form a government
fail.
The position of the Labor Align-
. ment is that the issue of the premier-
ship is not subject to negotiations
since President Chaim Herzog gave
-Peres the mandate on Sunday to form
the new government. At the time,
Herzog said that the nation desires a_
national unity government and that
"the country needs a quick decision."
Peres has 21 days, until Aug. 25, to
form, a government. He can get a
21-day extension if he needs it.
The insistence by Likud on the
issue of the premiership and parallel
negotiations with smaller parties
came after Likud leaders met in
Jerusalem to map the next steps of
their talks ,with the Alignment. De-
puty Premier David Levy rejected
charges that Likud was trying to foil
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AUGUST 10, 1984
ment was to gain time. These
sources, according to Israel Radio,
said that Likud wanted to drag out ,
the negotiations until' the allotted
time for Peres to form a government
ran out.
Meanwhile, special interest was
focused on Agudat Israel, which until
now has opposed a national unity
government and has. supported a
Likud-led coalition. However, Aguda
sources were quoted Tuesday as say-
ing that once Herzog asked Peres to
form the government "a new situa-
tion was created." Avraham Shapiro,
an Aguda leader, said that his party,
which has two seats in the Knesset,
does not intend to take a position on a
Peres-led government until it knows
what Labor has to offer on religious
issues. He added that any decision to
join a Labor government would have
to be approved first by the Aguda's
Council of Torah Sages.
Talks continued, meanwhile, in
Tel Aviv between Labor Party and
Mapam leaders. Mapam said that it
is opposed to a national unity gov-
ernment but will not impede steps in
that direction. Mapam leaders be-
lieve that the wide gap in. Labor and
Likud policies cannot be bridged.
Separate talks were also
scheduled between Labor leaders and
• the National Religious Party, Tami
and Agudat Israel over what conces-
sions Labor is ready to grant on reli-
gious 'issues.
Herzog asked Peres to form the
,
Labor's Shimon Peres andlikud's Yitzhak Shamir discuss a national unity
government.
,
an Alignment-led national unity"
government. Earlier this week,
Likud said that if Peres should head
the' next gosiernment, it would seek
the Defense and Foreign Ministry
portfolios.
Negotiations between the
Alignment and Likud are scheduled
to continue. The focus will be on the
sensitive issues of Lebanon and the
settlements in the West Bank. Pre-
. mier Yitzhak Shamir and Peres met
Monday, but nothing substantive
emerged from their talks. They
agreed to meet' again Thursday in a
private session. . •
Likud sources said the party's
tactics in its talks with the Align-
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CLOSE-UP
HEALING THE
HOLOCAUST'S WOUNDS
As medical examiner for survivors' restitution claims
throughout the Midwest, Detroiter Dr. Arthur Feuer has
spent the last 25 years witnessing the horrors which the
concentration camps wrought.
BY ALAN ABRAMS
Story on Page 14
Dr. Arthur Feuer: seeing the
nightmare.