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Article: Likud, Labor Maneuver For No-Confidence Vote; Shamir Refuses to Compromise on Talks
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- The Washington Post
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- March 15, 1990
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Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir ruled out compromise with the Labor
Party on the role of East Jerusalem in peace talks as his Likud Party
campaigned today for a test of strength with Labor in the Israeli
parliament.
The parliament is to vote Thursday on no-confidence motions in
Shamir's skeleton government following the departure from the cabinet
Tuesday of Labor's ministers. If a motion succeeds, the government
will be ended and a new round of coalition bargaining will begin
among Labor, Likud and the parliament's 12 smaller parties.
Although the left-wing Labor Party, a partner with the right-wing
Likud in coalition governments since 1984, is backing the
no-confidence motions, it is not ...