t2 Friday, April 18, 1986 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS NEWS Compromise Ends Coalition Crisis GRERT GIFT IDEAS ANYTIME OF THE YEAR! Special orders allow 2 weeks delivery. fine jewelry and gifts 357-5578 Auraham Shapira shakes hands with Yitzhak Modai after the compromise was reached. Shapira, of Agudat Yisrael, mediated the dispute. The Entire Staff Of Orchard Place Center, Orchard Lake Rd. S. of 14 Wishes You And Your Loved Ones A 855-0033 Jerusalem (JTA) — The f or preserving the coalition. Cabinet approved an exchange Even so, he did not agree before of portfolios last Sunday night consulting his wife, Ruth. that preserves the Labor-Likud Modal., too, was reluctant to unity coalition government and give up the treasury where he the prestige of Prime Minister achieved considerable success. Shimon Peres. The climatic ses- His economic austerity program is credited with reducing the sion lasted two minutes. The week-long crisis which rate of inflation to single digits threatened to bring down the 19 for the first time in years. But Peres wanted him out . month-old government was resolved by having Finance because of remarks published in Minister Yitzhak Modai switch newspapers interviews which jobs with Justice Minister the prime minister construed as Moshe Nissim, effective upon deliberate attacks on govern- ment policy by Modai. approval by the Knesset. Modai and Nissim are both Likud Liberals and each admits freely that he has neither ex- perience nor expertise in the other's job. But the unlikely Cabinet shuffle was the only way to satisfy Peres who an- nounced that he intended to fire Resolutions Modal. Had he done so, in viola- Against Saudi tion of the coalition agreement, Aid Introduced Likud would have had no choice Washington, D.C. (JTA) — but to leave the government. Peres, for his part, would not Resolutions were introduced in and could not back away from the House and Senate last week his insistence that Modal leave to disapprove of President Reagan's proposed sale of $354 the Treasury. Sunday was the deadline. The million in sophisticated missiles Cabinet, which usually convenes to Saudi Arabia. Sen. Alan Cranston (D. Calif.) in the morning, postponed its session until late evening to and Rep. Mel Levine (D. Calif.), allow the Likud leadership to who introduced the resolutions hammer out a facesaving com- in their respective chambers, promise. An earlier formula said at a press conference in the which woud have had Modai capitol that the resolutions were switch portfolios with Foreign signed by 61 Senators and 153 Minister Yitzhak Shamir was re- Representatives. Both said that jected by Peres because Modai they expected to get a two-third would have returned to the majority of their respective treasury when Shamir becomes bodies to vote in favor of the Prime Minister after the rota- resolutions, which would be tion of power next October 13. needed to over-ride a Presi- The rotation of power, only dential veto. Both Houses of Congress six months away, spurred Likud to pressure Modai and Nissim to must adopt the resolutions to re- accept the exchange which ject the sale by May 8 or it neither of them likes. Nissim, by automatically goes through. Cranston rejected the sugges- his own testimony, "never in his wildest dreams" expected to tion that the decision by the take over responsibility. for Goverment of Israel and the American Israel Public Affairs Israel's shaky economy. He was prevailed upon to ac- Committee (AIPAC) not to fight cept it by two young Likud actively against the.sale, despite MKs, Ehud Olmert and Dan their opposition to it, would hurt Meridor, who argued the case the effort to defeat it.