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Sharon, Peres in Israeli Coalition Talks.

By Ross Dunn (VOA-Jerusalem)

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has stepped up efforts to expand his coalition, in order to secure support for his disengagement plan from the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank. He met with opposition Labor Party leader Shimon Peres before formal coalition talks on forging a national unity government. Sharon met Peres for the second time in a week to discuss Labor joining the government in a bid to win parliamentary approval for Sharon's disengagement plan.

While Sharon's Cabinet voted in favor of the plan earlier this year, dissenters resigned in protest, and he lost his majority in the Knesset. Under the Sharon plan, Israel will dismantle ...

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