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APRIL 20, 1990 / 25 NISAN 5750
Will Labor Replace
Peres With Rabin?
erusalem (JTA) — The
Labor Party seems to
have lost confidence
in its longtime leader,
Shimon Peres, since his at-
tempt to establish a new
coalition government was
thwarted last week by the
11th-hour defections of
two ultra-Orthodox Knesset
members.
Although the prime min-
Sen. Dole Turns
On Jerusalem
W
ashington (JTA) —
Senate Minority
Leader Robert
Dole, R-Kan., has said he
would seek to have the
Senate rescind a resolution
declaring that Jerusalem is
Israel's capital.
On a visit to Israel, he
implied that American
Jews are selfish in oppos-
ing cuts in U.S. aid to
Israel.
The Senate resolution,
unanimously adopted on
March 22, declares that
Jerusalem "is and should
remain the capital of the
State of Israel" and that it
"must remain an undivid-
ed city."
"I am not sure I can
change it," Dole said Sun-
day in an appearance from
Jerusalem on the NBC
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ister-designate is continu-
ing his efforts under a new
15-day mandate granted by
President Chaim Herzog,
his chances appear to de-
pend more than ever on the
vagaries of the religious
bloc, which is itself wrack-
ed by factional rivalry.
Accordingly, Laborites
are looking for guidance
from their No. 2 man,
former Defense Minister
Yitzhak Rabin.
The party's Leadership
Bureau was scheduled to
have met Thursday to re-
view the coalition-making
situation.
Political insiders suspect
that barring a Peres
breakthrough, the party
brass will demand openly
that the chairman step
down as prime ministerial
candidate, in favor of the
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Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin confer at a Labor Party meeting.
more popular Rabin.
Peres has brushed off
hints that he might move
aside. But the insiders say
informal contacts already
have been made between
circles close to Rabin and
elements in the Likud
camp about the possibility
of reconstituting the unity
coalition.
Should a new unity
government emerge, most
observers believe its over-
riding mission would be to
enact bold reforms of the
electoral system to end the
hold that the small re-
ligious parties exert on
Israel's political structure.
Peres indicated that his
efforts are now aimed at
the ultra- Orthodox Shas
party in hope that its spiri-
tual mentor, former
Sephardic Chief Rabbi
Ovadia Yosef, will recon-
sider his earlier decision to
support Likud.
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