The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, August 7, 1984 - Page5
Peres to set up new Israeli gov't
From AP and UPI
JERUSALEM - Israel's Prime,
Minister-designate Shimon Peres and
Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir agreed
yesterday to keep trying to work out a-
power-sharing formula for a joint
government.
Officials of the Shamir's Likud bloc
indicated that Shamir had not given up.
the idea of being prime minister, even
though President Chaim Herzog has
asked Peres to form a government.
HERZOG appealed for a national!
unity coalition after neither Peres nor
Shamir could gain a parliamentary
majority on their own after last month's
inconclusive elections.
Labor won 44 seats, and Shamir's
Likud bloc, 41. But the distribution of
the other 35 seats among 13 small par-
ties did not give Peres enough firm
supporters to establish a 61-seat
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Air Force Base in Dayton. Military of-
ficials took photographs from inside the
base while the silent vigil was conduc-
ted.
ABOUT 50 demonstrators gathered
on the concourse of the Pentagon and
four were arrested for spilling a red
substance they said simulated blood.
They were charged with degrading
government property, a Pentagon
spokesman said.
In New York Harbor, four members
of Greenpeace, an environmental and
nuclear disarmament group, climbed
scaffolding surrounding the Statue of
Liberty and unfurled a 30-foot banner
proclaiming "Give Me Freedom from
Nuclear Weapons. Stop Testing."
"We want to use the occasion to look
forward, not backward, and we are
using the Statue because she has
. always been a hope for a new begin-
ning," said Brian Fitzgerald, a Green-
peace spokesman.
HE IDENTIFIES the protesters as
Sebea Hawkins of Little Rock, Ark.,
Mike Rappaport and his brother,
David, both of Hastings-on-Hudson,
N.Y., and Steve Loper of Chicago.
They were arrested by U.S. park
rangers and charged with criminal
trespass after they ended their five-
hour protest.
About 40 people turned out for a vigil
in Boston sponsored by the American
Friends Service Committee, and
Israeli president calls for
power-sharing joint govt '
majority in the Knesset.
Two rounds of unity negotiations last
week included the rival's top aides and
both Likud and Labor officials decided
private discussions between the party
leaders were essential.
SHAMIR AND Peres yesterday held
two hours of "friendly and frank"
private talks on forming a national
unity government, but refused to
disclose details or say whether any
agreement was reached on who would
be prime minister.
The Likud officials suggested the
least Shamir would settle for was a
Americans
Hiroshima
Mobilization for Survival, an anti-war
group.
THE PROTESTERS stood quietly in
the hot midday sun holding two huge
black banners bearing the names of
Hiroshima and Nagasaki in large white
letters.
Taped to a red brick wall nearby
were photos of bombing burn victims
and reproductions of drawings by
Japanese school children.
"There's a whole generation of
Americans who look at them (the bom-
bs) as life savers," said Patricia Wat-
son of Arlington, Mass. "The
justification for dropping the first bomb
was slim. For the second, it was non-
existant."
IN HIROSHIMA, Japan, a crowd of
50,000 people, some sobbing and holding
candles, prayed in a downtown park as
Buddhist temple bells solemnly tolled
the exact minute a U.S. atomic bomb
'destroyed Hiroshima 39 years ago.
Some members of the somber throng
fell to the ground and lay still as the
Hiroshima Peace Bell rang out at 8:15
a.m., the time the U.S. Army Air Force
bomber "Enola Gay" dropped the first
atomic bomb on the city of 343,000 on
Aug. 6,1945.
Hiroshima Mayor Takeshi Araki ad-
ded to the roll of victims the names of
4,315 people who died during the year of
bomb-related causes, bringing the total
number of victims of the Hiroshima
bombing on record to 113,271.
premiership rotating between Labor
and Likud leadership.
After yesterday's talks, Peres said he
believed Shamir would honor Herzog's
decision Sunday to appoint Peres to
form a government, but gave no in-
dication Shamir had agreed to join a
Peres-led government.
"I DON'T THINK the Likud will con-
tinue" to challenge Herzog's decision,
Peres told reporters.
"We agreed to continue the
discussions to establish a national unity
government,"said Shamir in a terse
statement. He left the hotel before
Peres and declined to answer
questions.
Earlier, Likud Knesset member
Ehud Olmert said Shamir would con-
sider participating in a Peres-led ad-
ministration, but only if Likud received
"major" cabinet posts in return.
"MR. SHAMIR will say, 'OK, sir, you
have been appointed by the president to
form a government - what will you of-
fer us?' " Olmert said in an interview.
"He doesn't oppose in principle the
idea of Peres forming a government."
Olmert said if one party controls the
prime minister's slot, the other would
deserve "major Cabinet posts" - a
concession some Labor supporters, in
particular the left-wing Mapam faction,
may not accept.
Peres has 21 days to negotiate and
present his new Cabinet for a Knesset
vote of confidence.
Associated Press
Protesters hold a banner in front of the entrance to General Electric Space
Center in King of Prussia, Pa., yesterday. The protest marked the 39th
anniversary of the nuclear blast at Hiroshima.
The ceremonies started a week of ob-
servances to mark the atomic bom-
bings of Hiroshima and of Nagasaki
three days later. About 105,000 people
,were killed and 95,000 were injured in
the two attacks.
"The spirit of Hiroshima has per-
meated the whole world to strengthen
Group submits 'nuclear free' proposal
Sussman also said many professors ballot but withdrew the petitions
(Continued fromn Page 1' would be affected by the law because because they were not notarized as is
to have an impact on the University," they work for local companies as well required. The campaign claims they
but later said "presumably, it won't as the University. were given misleading information by
have any affect." THE PROPOSAL is unique because it the city clerk's office, but Northcross
PART OF the confusion stems from would be the first binding resolution of said the campaign members were at
the University's self-imposed ban on its kind in a city which actually suppor- fault in the misunderstanding.
conducting classified research which ts nuclear weapons research, according Latta said the proposal has a better
could harm human life. Latta said that to Latta. chance of passing now, though, because
policy covers most of what the nuclear A similar proposal was defeated last "there's more people voting in Novem-
free proposal would affect. He said the year in Cambridge, Mass., but op- ber."
ban is aimed primarily at local com- ponents of the plan there outspent sup- He also said the extra months have
panies the campaign suspects are con- porters by a 15-to-one margin, Latta given proponents of the campaign more
ducting nuclear weapons research. said. time to gather more support. Between
But Alfred Sussman, the University's So far, however, there has been no now and the election, "we'll be doing a
Vice President for Graduate Studies organized opposition to the campaign, lot of canvassing door-to-door," Latta
and Research, said the University is Latta said. "We've gotten an extremely said.
immune to the proposed law because good response." "I think people are more aware of the
"the University is an arm of the state MEMBERS OF the campaign attem- issues and more concerned (about
government." pted to place the proposal on the April nuclear war)," Latta said.
the groundswell of international public
opinion in the cause of peace," said
Hiroshima's mayor.
A flock of doves were released and
filled the sky above the park as the brief
annual ceremony ended.
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