Article: LIKUD HOPEFUL TRIES TO PICK UP THE PIECES LEADERSHIP DEFECTS AND A PARTY CRUMBLES

JERUSALEM - Shmuel Slavin looked tired as he returned to the Likud party's campaign headquarters in Jerusalem after another busy day on the hustings.Slavin, 51, was a high-flying thirtysomething when he became economic adviser to Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir and director- general of two government ministries, making him one of the architects of Israel's recent high-tech boom. But that experience, which catapulted Slavin to the head of one of Israel's largest investment houses, hasn't translated so far into political success. Likud's national campaign office, a barely furnished jumble of plastic chairs and hastily assembled phone lines in an unfinished office building at the back of a ...

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