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JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Yitzhak
or, Ero::§ij am i r won narrow parliamentary approval
press-Nefc; ^I n( j a y f or one 0 f mos t right-wing govern-
hog, thatit§£ nts i n Israel’s 42-year history, gaining 62 votes
checked lijjn the 120-seat Knesset.
35 feln presenting his 19-member Cabinet, Shamir
, itedged to seek peace but promised expanded
ng s swmiijByish settlements — a pledge likely to raise ten-
e sun ar:i s j ons w jti 1 Washington and the Arabs.
^ u S H P 1 * 8 t ^ ie ^ irst government fully in control of the
> ould Ji! p|ht-wing Likud bloc since 1984. It takes over at
a time of new crisis in the Mideast, with Iraqi
ves “T he government proposed today
is a shaky one, built on many legs of
an i a y- lts composition, its guidelines
x J are not bringing peace. It has no
ability to change, no joy of hope. It is
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nation anci a sorrowful government for
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—Shimon Peres,
Labor Party leader
President Saddam Hussein issuing threats
'against Israel and Palestinians asking for escala-
tion of the insurrection in the occupied West
Bank and Gaza Strip.
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ful,” and called on Israelis to take up the task of
absorbing the thousands of Soviet Jewish immi
grants coming to Israel.
“This is the mission, and around this mission I
will compose today a national unity govern
ment,” he said just before the vote was taken.
The vote was 62 for the government, 57
against and one abstention.
It installed Israel’s 24th government since the
state’s founding in 1948 and gave the 74-year-old
Shamir the prime minister’s job for the fourth
time.
The ultra-Orthodox Shas Party threatened to
f mll out over a police investigation of alleged
raud by one of its leaders, and four parliament
members also warned they would abstain or vote
no because they did not get ministerial positions.
David Levy, a leading Likud figure and the
foreign minister, walked out of a meeting with
Shamir because he was only one of two deputy
premiers and not Shamir’s undisputed successor.
Demonstrators gathered outside the Knesset
to demand political reform, shouting slogans
about concessions made to bring ultra-Orthodox
parties into the government.
Amnon Rubinstein of the liberal Shinui Party
said the bargaining amounted to bribery by of
fering jobs to defectors from Labor.
“If you’re proposing for one person to come to
another party and you give them a ministry ... it
is nothing but bribery,” he said.
Former Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin of La
bor compared the new Cabinet to Begin’s right-
wing government elected in 1981 that started the
Lebanon war.
“This is a narrow government, narrow in its
shoulders and horizons', a government that can
not answer the great challenges and decrease the
great dangers,” he said.
Shamir pledged in his address to the Knesset
that he would continue to seek dialogue with Pal
estinians and a deeper involvement of Egypt in
peace efforts.
But he said “the Arab hatred towards us has
not expired. ... The problem is the rejection of
the very existence of Israel.”
As he spoke of his government’s obligation to
seek peace, Shamir was interrupted by jeering
from an Israeli Arab Knesset member, Abdul
Wahab Daroushe. He shouted back at Daroushe,
“Shut up and let me speak.”
Another Arab parliament member, Tewfik
Toubi, said it was “a black day” because Shamir’s
government relied for support on a two-member
faction called Moledat, or “Homeland,” which
seeks to expel all Arabs from Israel-held terri
tory.
Shamir also got into a shouted exchange with
Labor Party leader Shimon Peres, who blamed
the prime minister for blocking peace moves and
said the new government was unstable and dan
gerous for Israel.
“The government proposed today is a shaky
one, built on many legs of clay,” Peres said. “Its
composition, its guidelines are not bringing
peace. It has no ability to change, no joy of hope.
It is a sad government for its members and a sor
rowful government for Israel.”
The policy guidelines of Shamir’s new govern
ment reject talks with the PLO and the founding
of a Palestinian state, and he made clear he had
no intention of giving up the occupied West
Bank and Gaza Strip, where Palestinians hope to
create their state.
“It would be crazy on our part to agree to any
concession in the area which is the soft belly of
the land of Israel when around us we have a hos
tile ring that has an unprecedented military
power,” Shamir said.
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BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — A
inference of scientists meeting
Boulder says it’s only a matter
‘ time before the United States
aches Mars.
More than 250 planetary scien-
its, aerospace engineers and
eorists from the United States,
jrope, the Soviet Union and Ja
in met to discuss various propo
lis for manned Martian explora-
>n.
The Bush administration re-
ntly called for an American
nding on Mars by the year
)19, to coincide with the 50th
miversary of America landing
on the moon.
The conference was sponsored
the National Aeronautics and
pace Administration, Martin
arietta and various government
(encies.
Many of those attending the
inference criticized NASA, say-
g it has become too cautious in
tting a 30-year time frame on
project, which would cost
}00 billion.
“Many of the NASA people
to made their mark with the
polio program are now dose to
tirement and are hesitant to
ake waves by supporting bold,
w proposals,” said J.R. French,
jHCahfornia aerospace consultant.
The last unmanned explora-
)n of the planet was in 1976, by
ie NASA Viking mission that
nt back data for more than five
tars. The Viking project found a
suit arelBanet a quarter of the size of
surance 0 arth, with one-third Earth’s
ia Kirk as "avity and an atmosphere almost
eir law fin itirely of carbon dioxide and
ater in a frozen ice cap.
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Czechs fear ‘cult of personality’,
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PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia (AP) —The symbol of the
anti-Communist revolution. President Vaclav Havel has
built enormous power and popularity since taking of
fice. Much of the public following is genuine venera
tion, but critics say a “cult of personality” is growing
that Havel does too little to control.
After his fairy-tale progression from prison to the
presidency last year, Havel has become a national fa
ther-figure, particularly for his fellow Czechs, who
make up two-thirds of the 15.5 million people in
Czechoslovakia.
In Prague, a stronghold of the Civic Forum
movement Havel founded to lead the revolution, pic
tures and buttons of the president are everywhere.
Havel himself complained in late April that his popu
larity had reached such extremes that he could no
longer say, for instance, that he disliked a passing dog.
If he did, he said, he would find five people ready to
shoot the animal.
But some critics, who have observed Havel closely be
fore and after he took office, say the president has de
veloped a tangible taste for power and does too little to
discourage such veneration.
“We have a new cult of personality,” said an ex-dissi
dent who asked not to be identified because of past loy
alty to Havel. “He has always relied on friendly opin
ions around him ... There is too little criticism.”
After taking office, Havel appointed friends, mostly
fellow dissidents, to influential positions in the castle
that dominates Prague’s skyline.
Fellow dissident Jiri Kanturek took over state tele
vision, and another fellow dissident, Petr Uhl, the state
news agency CTK. Civic Forum sympathizers control
key ministries and institutions such as the state prosecu
tor’s office.
Nobody suggests that such people are anything but
democratic and admirable for their courage in fighting
communism.
On Sunday, however, TV viewers waiting to watch
their World Cup soccer team crush the United States 5-
1 were treated to the third broadcast in four months of
the star-studded tribute to Havel when he visited New
York.
Czechoslovakia’s soccer captain, Ivan Hasek, ded
icated the World Cup victory to Civic Forum and to Ha
vel personally.
Such reverence, and the Czechoslovak media’s reluc
tance to criticize Havel, stem in part from the lack of
free expression during four decades of Communist
rule and the Nazi domination before that.
Journalists say they also think twice about writing
critical articles because, in the new climate of free mar-
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^ WASHINGTON (AP) — One of
every six jobs created through the
turn of the century is expected to be
in California, reflecting the contin
ued shift of economic activity to the
. Sun Belt, the government said Mon
day.
I “California is projected to gain 3.4
million of the 18.9 million new jobs
created nationally” from 1988 to
2000, said the forecast by the Com
merce Department’s Bureau of Eco
nomic Analysis.
[; That would give the state 19 mil
lion jobs.
B “Florida and Texas are projected
to have increases of more than 1 mil
lion jobs each,” to 8 million and 9.7
million respectively, the department
. said.
i National employment opportuni
ties are expected to rise 14.3 percent
to 151.5 million jobs.
The study projected that the fast-
“T
he projected growth
in Nevada and Arizona
reflects rapid population
growth and strength in
their economies, in part
due to the continued shift
in economic activity toward
the Sun Belt.”
— government study
est job growth will be in Nevada, up
31.5 percent to 847,000, and Ari
zona, up 26.7 percent to 2.3 million.
Those two states also should show
the fastest growth rates in total per
sonal income and population, the
department said.
“The projected growth in Nevada
and Arizona reflects rapid popula
tion growth and strength in their
economies, in part due to the contin
ued shift in economic activity toward
the Sun Belt,” the study said. “Flor
ida, Utah, California and Hawaii
also are projected to show rapid
growth.”
California will continue to be the
nation’s most populous state, grow
ing 17.1 percent to 33.2 million peo
ple. It also will be first in total per
sonal income, up 33 percent to $568
billion.
Personal income will jump 46.2
percent to $21.7 billion in Nevada
and 40.6 percent to $59 billion in
Arizona.
Total U.S. personal income is ex
pected to advance 26.2 percent to
$4.11 trillion. The income projec
tions are adjusted for inflation.
Connecticut is projected to con
tinue having the highest average per
capita income, rising 10.8 percent to
$20,503. Mississippi, although gain
ing 19.0 percent, is expected still to
be last, with $10,631.
The national average will be an es
timated $15,345, an increase of 15.9
percent.
The population in Nevada is pro
jected to rise the fastest, 29.8 per
cent, to 1.4 million. If the projection
proves to be true, Arizona will be
next, with its population rising 21.4
percent to 4.2 million. Florida would
be third, up 18.2 percent to 14.6 mil
lion.
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ket competition, newspapers must worry about the
readership loss that might result.
Vladimir Mlynar, a writer for the independent daily
Lidove Noviny, said an article he wrote criticizing the
practice of closing streets for Havel’s motorcade drew
mixed letters.
“Some said, ‘Thank God somebody is saying it,’ ” he
said. “Others criticized, asking ‘How dare you attack
our idol?’ ”
The overwhelming victory for Civic Forum and its
Slovak ally Public Against Violence was in large mea
sure a personal endorsement of Havel. But Havel broke
the tradition of a non-partisan president by openly
campaigning for his political allies.
In other respects, Havel openly evokes the president
who molded that non-partisan tradition — Thomas
We have a new cult of personality.
He has always relied on friendly opinions
around him ... There is too little criticism.”
—anonymous ex-dissident
Garrigue Masaryk, founder of Czechoslovakia in 1918
and president until 1935.
Presidential spokesman Michael Zantovsky, asked
about Havel’s popularity, said it was to some extent in
evitable.
“This is a new-found nation which looks for self-
confidence,” he said. “Just as something close to a cult
of personality was built around Masaryk after indepen
dence in 1918, so we see the same kind of thing hap
pening.”
But Havel also cultivates the comparison.
He loves to frequent the country residence built for
Masaryk in Lany, 30 miles west of Prague, the town
where the Masaryk family is buried. Havel addresses
the nation each Sunday by radio in a program called
“Conversations From Lany.”
A Czech television journalist who has watched Havel
closely said the president has yet to succumb to the “cult
of personality.”
By contrast, he said, those around the president tend
to be too uncritical.
“If ... he keeps on relying on friendly advice rather
than real expertise, he may pay dearly for this,” said the
journalist, who like some others spoke on condition of
anonymity because he said he feared for his job.
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