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JERUSALEM — Israeli leaders Yitzhak Shamir and Shimon Peres have concluded a tentative agreement (at JfTil deadline) to join forces to establish a bi-partisan Unity government.
Under the agreement, each will serve as prime minister for half the government's SO-month term, begimiing with Labor party leader Peres.
Speculation, meantime, has it the new government ~ product of nearly two Months' debate and discussion — could collapse even before Peres cpncludeis his term, prompting an election.
Prior to their de<Jision to share power, Shanlir and Peres were miseting tip to three times daily to hash out details and Overcome policy differences.
One such meeting produced a document jointly drafted by Finance minister YigalCohen-Orgad and Labor's Gad Ya'^ cobi, which said thej^Ribineci^ administration will strive to reduce the public seetor and encourage production and exports. ' ^
Government would en-
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The two ministers complained Shamir had conceded too much.'
H owever, public opinion forced party leadership to withdraw demands that, rotation of the premiership be on a yearly basis,"and that the defence portfolio be rotated as well.
Likud hardliners also agreed t6 soften their deniands for Labor agree-meiit to qonstructioii of 28 ne^Jsett|ement^^ by diitgoini^ Likud gby^
L^bor and Likud are each to have 10 seats in the cabinet, which -might - be expanded ^ith additional coalition courage \savings and try to partners.,^ Within this up-reach-an'uli<iersta*teg%f^^ Wieldy bbdy an innercabiriet the.Histadrut labor federa- will be established, ^ith five tfonson wages and prices, the ' ' document added.
Earlier the leaders^ had agreed in principle on how the parties would allocate their responsibilities, but Shamir was foj'ced to retreat, under pressure fr0m former defence
Labor and five Likud ministers.
The major question is what role Sharon will have in the cabinet. His supporters had sought the agricuhure post for him as a vehicle for developing settlements on the West Bank.
However, the latest agreement-assigns the agriculture portfolio to Labor. Sharon may be made a minister without poftfolio, but* it is not "clear whether he will be a member of iiiner cabinet.
Levy, who also fancies himself successor to the Likud leader, is expected to continue holding the housing portfolio.
Oh the LabOT-side, former president Yitzhak Navon is expected to be education minister, and former foreign minister-" Abba Eban. may be^ named information minister.
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The Vancouver Jewish community has been neglecting to *teed the food bank,"* according to Susan Landau, Jewish Family Services Agency executive director.
Landau told JWB bluntly last week^ **We have no food." She said until now the Jew-
ish Food Bank has been able to rely on left-over funds, gen^ erously donated, which have served as food vouchers;
In August the Food Ban)c gave out ten hampers to clients but had to refuse other requests. Landau asserted.
She fears the Bank will be virtually empty following the holiday.
z "With RoshHasiipna coming and monies going out to families in need, it is^ highly lik% the food fiind will be totally depleted;'- Landau explained;
The Food Bank, which began a year ago, has been regularly feeding 30 individu-
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Hate propaganda transmitted by computer reached B.C. politicians last week when four NDP MLAs became unwilling recipients of leaflets advertising an **Aryan Nation computer network. **
An offended Robiii Blen-coe (NDP-Victoria) immediately called on Bob McClelland, B.C. minister res-
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NEW YORK — Eighteen women made history when they began rabbinical studies at the conservative Jewish Theological seminary (JTS) for the first time in the scl^oora 99-year history.
And when the students are finally ordained as the first women conservative rabbis, the event is expected to epd the protracted disputeon the issue in Conservative Judaism.
JTltc program of study for the Conservative rabbinate is six years.
The^admission of women was made possible by a 24-8 vote of the JTS Faculty last October.^
For,ail practical purposes that vote endted a^ometim^bitterly divisive debate.
in which a steadily growing number of Conservative rabbis endorsed the admission of women for ordination, while a substantial number of faculty members were adamantly opposed*.
Another innovation associated with the women students will be inauguration of two daily services. One will continue a service with separate seating for women and no women*s ritual participation. The new service will treat the women students as full participants.
The Conservative movement thus joins Reform and Reconstructionism in ordaining women as rabbis. There are now about 90 women in the U.S. ordained as rabbis, mainly Ref6hn. jta
ponsible for human rights, to halt distribution of hate literature.
Blencoe said he and three other unnamed MLAs received the handbills in the mail from a U.S.-based neo-Nazi group in Idaho calling themselyes Aryan Nations.
**This offensive liteirature is an insult to all British Columbians and their concern for human rights,"* Blencoe Sftid in bis letter to McClelland. urge yop to work ^ith federal authorities to halt this new system that is thwarting cur* rent regulations. It is a total affront to our multi-cultural communities.
Earlier Aryan Nations whose philosophy is similar to Klu Klux Klan, made newspaper headlines after estab^ lishing the potential to link itself up with home computer users in Canada.
According to group founder, Richard Butler, the move was. designed to get-around Canadian* 'customs and postal regulations controlling entry \' of hate literature.
Butler said ll.C. members can now dial a 24rhour tele- . phone liumber ^and obtain literature through their home computer.
Aryan Nations, also associated with Church of Jesus Clirist Christian, publishes a variety of racist and ami-^mitic tiiatinrials; including: The\Nfgro,\ Serpent, Beast
and Devil: For Fear of the Jews: and Who Crucified Jesus Christ?
Butler wouldn't reveal numbers of Nations'members
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B.C. and Alberta, he added, _are_^';|our^stfongest provinces in Canada but there are a lot in Manitoba, too.**
A small branch of the Aryan Nations has been operating in Fort .;]^ngley for sometime, and:leader Lester Morris had no reluctance in speaking his mind. "^This nation was created by white people,** lie said. **Now m have become almost serfs in our own nation.**
A Vancouver theology pirb-fessor, meantime, argAed
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