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solute unwillingness to
enter a coalition led by
Shamir. A former Likud col-
league, Yitzhak Modai,
humiliated the prime min-
ister by demanding that he
guarantee any promises
with a $10 million bank
note. Shamir actually con-
sidered granting the re-
quest, dickering only over
the size of the guarantee.
The final blow was struck
by another Likud dissident,
Avraham Sharir. Eighteen
months ago, Shamir shocked
the former tourism minister
by gracelessly deposing him,
without warning, in a public
meeting; this week, Sharir
repaid the insult by going
over to the Labor Party and
providing Peres with the
margin to form a govern-
ment.
"Shamir has been an ab-
solute disaster," said a
Likud Member of Knesset
who himself was the victim
of Shamir's strange inability
to keep his word. "He broke
the first law of politics — you
don't lie to your colleagues
or your allies. And the entire
party is paying for it now."
In fact, as the Likud moves
into the opposition for the
first time in 13 years, there
is an acute sense that
Shamir, elected as a
harmless caretaker, has
squandered the legacy he
inherited. His party now has
35 seats in the Knesset, the
lowest number since before
the 1973 Yom Kippur War,
and 14 fewer than
Menachem Begin won in his
last election, in 1981. Inter-
nally, the party is divided,
and almost certainly faces a
bitter leadership struggle.
And by alienating small re-
ligious and right-wing par-
ties, Shamir has badly hurt
the Likud's chances for for-
ming a governing coalition
in the near future.
"I don't know how long it
will be before we can recover
what we've lost," said the
Likud MK. "What Begin
built over a lifetime, Shamir
tore down in a few years." ❑
$160 Million Allotted
For VOA In Israel
Jerusalem (JTA) — Israel
will allocate $160 million for
development of the Voice of
America's powerful radio
transmitter in the Arava re-
gion of the Negev, the
interim Cabinet was told
last week.
According to the acting
minister of communications,
David Magen, Israeli en-
trepreneurs will be the
beneficiaries of 60 percent of
the allocation.
The National Council for
Planning and Construction
has initiated deliberations
on the controversial project.
It is expected to brush
aside the strong objections
by environmentalists in
Israel and the United States,
as well as the argument that
the diminished military
threat from the Soviet Union
makes the transmitter
superfluous.
The biggest temptation for
Israel, which accepted the
project during the Reagan
administration, is jobs.
With the jobless rate cur-
rently at nearly 9 percent,
the VOA transmitter prom-
ises employment for about
550 workers in the in-
frastructure and construc-
tion stages over the next two
years, and 170 permanent
jobs once the station starts
broadcasting.
The U.S. Congress ear-
marked $247 million for the
project, after the United
States and Israel signed an
agreement in 1987 to build it
in the Negev.
The intention was to- over-
come Soviet jamming of
VOA broadcasts to Eastern
Europe and Central Asia,
which has stopped with the
relaxation in Soviet politics
and the renunciation of
Communism in the Warsaw
Pact nations.
In fact, the VOA-related
Radio Liberty has ironically
become even more popular
in Eastern Europe with the
new freedoms, and jobs have
reportedly opened in that
venue.
Israel has spent only $64
million of the allocation to
date.
The project has come
under heavy condemnation
from environmentalists, led
by the Society for the Protec-
tion of Nature in Israel, the
Nature Preserves Authority
and residents of the Arava
region, who are determined
to block the project.
They say the station's
2,000-acre area, with its 900-
foot-high antennas, would
ruin one of the Negev's few
remaining nature preserves,
blocking scenic hiking trails
and ruining the view.
Furthermore, the envi-
ronmentalists contend, elec-
tromagnetic radiation from
the transmitters would en-
danger the health of
residents and disrupt the
O