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A year ago, as the country was gearing up for its na- tional election, if anyone had ventured that the 43-year-old Mr. Netanyahu would be the man to succeed the septuage- narian Yitzhak Shamir as chairman of the Likud, he would probably have been laughed out of town. Yet that was the expected outcome this week of the Likud's primary election Wednesday (official results were unavailable at press time). Polls showed Mr. Ne- tanyahu was the overwhelm- ing favorite among the Likud's 250,000 dues-paying members, who were voting in the party's first-ever nation- al primary. The winner is Likud's candidate for prime minister. Though probably the youngest prime-ministerial aspirant in Israel's history, Bibi (as he is universally known in Israel) has had the look of a winner about him for some time. Beginning his ca- reer in public life as a diplo- mat — and close to the top even then, as deputy chief of mission at the Israeli em- bassy in Washington — he soon received the plum post of Israel's ambassador to the United Nations. One reason for his instant success abroad was his corn- mand of unaccented, id- iomatic English acquired during years spent in the U.S., where he completed high school and, after a five- year stint in one of Israel's elite military units, studied architecture at MIT. Another is his widely not- ed mastery of the "eight-sec- ond sound bite," which made him particularly prized as a spokesman in times of stress (such as the Persian Gulf War, when he dominated the foreign media), although it also led to his being dispar- aged by rivals as "slick," a "slogan monger" and a pur- veyor of "gimmicks." Upon returning to Israel in the mid-1980s, Bibi initially suffered from the "Abba Eban syndrome," being far more fa- miliar to audiences abroad than to his party's con- stituency at home. The Netanyahu name, moreover, 'was still more closely associated with his brother Yoni, a national hero who was killed leading the rescue of the Air France pas- sengers hijacked to Entebbe, Uganda, in July 1976. Soon enough, however, the hand- some, self-possessed, and supremely telegenic Bibi was cutting his own path through the jungle of Israeli politics. When he ran for the Knes- Netanyahu is an aggressive hardliner. set in 1988, the Likud was al- ready crowded with other "princes" (sons of the original members of the pre-state Re- visionist underground) who were awarded with minister- ships. Bibi fell short of that category but found a solid ally in his original patron, Moshe Arens, who had given the un- tried Mr. Netanyahu his first break in Washington and now engineered his appointment as deputy foreign minister. When the gentlemanly Mr. Arens moved to the Defense Ministry in 1990, Mr. Ne- tanyahu stayed on to serve under the new foreign minis- ter — Moroccan-born, ex- union leader David Levy — and the two mixed about as well as oil and water. Their antagonism ran so deep, in fact, that Bibi was eventual- ly shifted to the nondescript position of deputy minister in the Prime Minister's Office, where he pretty much lan- guished. He had little impact upon the Likud's 1992 elec- tion campaign and bore little r/ responsibility for its failure. In retrospect, however, that was probably one key to his subsequent strength: For backed by a group of well- heeled supporters abroad, Mr. NETANYAHU page 116