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into line so that the Likud leader can
regroup and carry on.
But they could also mean that
Netanyahu has come to believe, after a
hardheaded assessment of the govern-
ment's inherent weakness, that the end
is near.
Either way, the prime minister is
now clearly determined to head off any
challenge against his leadership from
the right-wing "national camp."
Whether he-stays in--office or seeks
new elections, he will project himself
as the leader who refused to give
ground to the Palestinians, despite
intensive, almost public pressure from
no less a figure than the president of
the United States.
Where does all this leave the peace
process?
Despite brave attempts by U.S.
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright
to claim some progress during the
president's three days in the region,
Israeli and Palestinian negotiators are
making no such pretense.
Despite the move to annul the char-
ter, Israel is flatly refusing to carry out
any further redeployments until the
Palestinian Authority carries our fur-
ther obligations — including the con-
fiscation of weapons, the elimination
of anti-Israel rhetoric from school-
books, ending incitement and retract-
ing the threat to declare statehood uni-
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For their part, Palestinian officials
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survive the Knesset vote.
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Jewish Woman
Heads Switzerland
Ruth
Dreifuss
became the
first Jew —
and the first
woman —
to be named
president of
Switzerland,
where
Ruth Dreifuss
women only
earned the right to vote in 1971.
Dreifuss, who formally
becomes head of state on Jan. 1,
inherits a country that is
attempting to cope with an anti-
Semitic backlash after a stream of
embarrassing disclosures in recent
-years about the financial ties that
existed between the country's
leading banks and Nazi Germany.
After months of international
pressure, two of the banks agreed
earlier this year to pay a $1.25
billion settlement of Holocaust-
era claims.
Dreifuss, 58, was born in an
eastern Swiss canton. As the
Nazis approached the Swiss bor-
der, she moved with her parents
to Geneva.
In 1970, she graduated from
Geneva University with a degree
in mathematics and was then
appointed an assistant in the
Faculty of Economic and Social
Sciences at Geneva University. She
served in the Swiss Development
Corporation at the Swiss Foreign
Ministry from 1972 to 1981,
when she was elected secretary of
the Federation of Swiss Trade
Unions.
Dreifuss was a member of the
Berne Municipal Council from
1989 to 1992. and was appoint-
ed home affairs minister in 1993.