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\ ) Jerusalem (JTA ► — Foreign
-I service professionals last
\ week were furious with
/ Shimon Peres, who took office
as Foreign Minister, for what
they see as political appoint-
ments and preferential treat-
ment for a selected few in his
efforts to reorganize the
Ministry.
They are also angry with
i
Prime Minister Yitzhak
) Shamir for alleged cronyism
in last minute appointments
and promotions he made
before switching jobs with
Peres under the Labor-Likud
/— rotation of power agreement.
Peres ran into an increas-
ingly bitter conflict with the
Foreign Ministry Staff Corn-
mittee which threatened to
lodge a complaint with the
Supreme Court over a deci-
sion to divide the office of
Foreign Ministry Director
General. •
The decision. approved by
the Cabinet, appointed
Avraham Tamir Director
General and former Cabinet
Secretary Yossi Beilin, as
Political Director-General.
'Pamir, who served as Director
General of the Prime Min-
isters Office under Peres, ac-
cepted the dual appointment
reluctantly. It was necessary
in order to create a senior
Foreign Ministry post for
Beilin, a close Labor Party
associate of Peres, whose
nomination to be Israel's next
Ambassador to Washington
was vetoed by Likud.
Peres himself has not con-
c ealed his anger over the cool
r eception he received from
c areer diplomats when he
assumed his new office. As a
r esult, he is working mainly
with his own political staff to
t he exclusion of Foreign
Ministry professionals and
his has further aroused the
re of the professionals.
They also balked at Peres'
insistence that Minister-
Without-Portfolio Ezer Weiz-
man and his aides he housed
within the Foreign Ministry
precincts. Weizman previous-
ly served under Peres in the
Prime Ministers Office as
liaison for Arab affairs.
The professionals are no
less bitter over Shamir's reap-
- __pointment for an additional
- two years of nine political
Ambassadors, men from out-
side the foreign service who
were installed in embassies
- abroad when Shamir was
Prime Minister in the Likud-
led government in 1984,
before the national unity
coalition was established •
They are uncomfortable
with Shamir's decision to
grant the personal rank of
Ambassador to six Foreign
Ministry officials widely seen
as his personal friends, at the
expense of more senior, ex-
perienced diplomats.

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