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PAGE 2 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE October 17, 1986 Professional & Personal Home Health Care NURSING CENTER 373-2858 351-0009 767-7721 • RN’S, LPN'S. NAS • Homemakers • Live-in Companions • Elderly Person Aides • Critical Care • I. V. 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Rkhcrd Peritz WVEU-TV—CH. 69 Sunday 6:30 a.m. ENTERTAINMENT • TRAVEL • DISCUSSIONS • RELIGION Peres, Shamir switch hits snag in last-minute dispute " 1 u ' !) * 1 " • : ■ by Yaacov Ben Yosef Yitzhak Shamir, left, and Shimon Peres in deep discussion at the Knesset. Special to TSI JERUSALEM—A last-minute dispute over the composition of the new cabinet delayed the rota tion agreement in which Prime Minister Shimon Peres was to switch jobs with Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir this week. Shamir’s inability to present his government Tuesday afternoon to the Knesset, as called for under the rotation agreement, was seen at press time as an indication that rotation might be implemented. Or, it may simply be a minor delay, with Shamir taking over a day or two late. On Tuesday, however, an air of crisis prevailed, and no one could be certain how things would turn out. “We are at the height of a crisis,” warned Labor Party Secretary- General Uzi Bar-am at a hastily- called news conference in Jerusa lem Tuesday at midday. He charged that Shamir had demonstrated “bad faith” in the past few days. The Likud, for its part, insisted that Labor had injected new demands that had no place in recent Labor- Likud talks over procedures to implement rotation. The most critical issue in dispute appears to be the fate of Likud Knesset Member Yitzhak Modai, who was forced to resign as Justice Minister in July after launching a personal attack against Peres. The Likud has insisted that Modai be allowed back in the government once rotation occurred, but Labor has refused. The crisis erupted Tuesday morning when Labor Party minis ters emerged from a session at Peres’ office to say that they would not meet with President Chaim Herzog later that day after all to recommend to him that Shamir be named the new prime minister. The reason: as Uzi Bar-am put it, “bad faith” shown by Shamir. Last Friday morning, Peres had gone to Herzog and announced that he was resigning, paving the way for the rotation to occur Tuesday, as provided in the Labor- Likud coalition agreement of 25 months earlier. Peres and Shamir met that afternoon but could not resolve all outstanding issues. Lit tle happened Sunday, and nothing happened Monday because of Yom Kippur. Then, by Tuesday midday, the crisis was at its peak. Labor chose Absorption Minister Yosef Tzur and Energy Minister Moshe Sha- hal to negotiate on its behalf. Likud ministers emerged from a meeting in Shamir’s office at 2 p.m. to declare that Shamir would make another attempt to wrap up mat ters with Peres in a meeting later that afternoon. The two men met for 30 minutes without resolving their differences and did not fix a time for another session. Meanwhile, following Peres’ resignation, Herzog began to meet representatives of various political parties, as he must do by law, to hear their recommendations on who should be the next prime minister. He continued to hold meetings Tuesday while the crisis flared. Once Labor and Likud resolved their differences, a joint L,abor- Likud delegation was to meet with him and recommend Shamir. Im mediately after that, Herzog was to recommend Shamir as the next prime minister, setting the stage for the new prime minister to pres ent his government to the Knesset. Should there have been no reso lution by Thursday, rotation could well be in trouble, and Peres would remain in power with new elections almost a certainty, probably within three months. Peres thought he had Shamir’s agreement to reduce the number of cabinet posts from 25 to 23, keep ing Modai’s and one other cabinet post open until January when pre sumably a further effort would be made to deal with the sticky Modai issue. But, according to Bar-am, Shamir withdrew his agreement, setting the stage for what Bar-am described Tuesday as a “critical situation.” Labor Party sources say that what has in fact irritated Peres the most was not the Modai issue, but Shamir’s refusal to agree to the outgoing prime minister’s proposal to appoint Labor Party Cabinet Secretary Yossi Beilin, Peres’ chief aide, as the new Israeli ambassador to Washington. Indeed, one Labor Party man made it clear Tuesday that should Shamir agree to the Beilin appoint ment, Peres would happily agree to allow Modai in the new govern ment as minister-without-portfolio. Labor still insists that Modai not be allowed back as either finance minister or justice minister, the two posts he held during Peres’ term as prime minister the past two years. L.abor and Likud are in dispute over a few other issues having to do with political appointments but once the Modai and Beilin matters are resolved, most politicians be lieve that those more minor issues will quickly be agreed upon. Effective Oct. 20, The Southern Israelite's offices will be located at 300 Atlanta Technology Center, Suite 365, 1575 North- side Drive, N.W., Atlanta, GA 30318. The newspaper’s mailing address will be P.O. Box 250287, Atlanta, GA 30325. The new telephone number is (404) 355-6139. 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