Begin Cabinet
teetering as
member quits
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel’s
Finance Minister Vigael Hurvitz
resigned Sunday in a dispute
over a raise for Israel’s
teachers, bringing the govern
ment of Prime Minister Mena
chem Begin to the brink of col
lapse.
Begin called a special Cabin
et meeting for Monday morning
to decide whether to set early
elections or try to go on
governing without Hurvitz.
Elections are already
scheduled for November, but
judging from the remarks of
Cabinet ministers Sunday,
Begin may advance the voting
date to the early summer.
Hurvitz said he and his two
political partners will quit the
coalition, leaving Begin’s
government with 58 seats at
most in the 120-member Knes
set (Parliament), and dependent
for survival on a handful of free
floating splinter factions.
Education Minister Zevulun
Hammer said “the government
would like to serve out its term,
but it doesn’t want to do so if it
doesn’t have appropriate par
liamentary support.’’
Asked whether Begin was
planning an election for around
June, Justice Minister Moshe
Nissim replied: “that can be as
sumed."
A compromise was sought on
the teacher's salary issue at a
marathon 71/2 hour Cabinet
meeting.
Hurvitz, 62, resigned after the
Cabinet made concessions to
Israel’s 58,000 teachers, who
are demanding pay increases
recommended last year by a
government commission.
He argued the wage hikes
would cripple his efforts to curb
public spending and reduce Is
rael’s world-leading inflation
rate of 131 percent in 1980.
Government sources said the
Cabinet on Sunday approved by
a vote of 11-2 a compromise
that obliged the government to
accept the teachers’ demands
in principle but postponed the
actual payment of higher salar
ies.
Hurvitz said he voted against
the resolution because it was
“too watery and wouldn’t be
understood by all the workers’
sectors.” His resignation takes
effect Tuesday.
The opposition Labor Party
warned that unless Begin re
signed, it would present a bill to
dissolve Parliament and have
elections 100 days hence.
Opinion polls strongly favor the
Labor Party, but the large per
centage of undecided voters
makes predictions difficult.
Over the weekend, Begin
aides made it known that the
67-year-old prime minister had
all but despaired of saving his
Cabinet. But media reports said
Begin was being pressured by
hardliners in his Cabinet to hold
on as long as possible so the
government could complete its
projects for settling Jews in the
Israeli-occupied West Bank.
The hardliners fear the Labor
Party will restrict Jewish
development on the West Bank
and trade parts of it for peace
with Jordan.
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From Associated Press Reports
Iran has dropped its demand that the United States
deposit $24 billion in Algerian banks before the 52 Americans
being held hostage in Iran are released, a top Iranian
negotiator was quoted as saying Sunday.
But U.S. officials in Washington said they had not been
notified by Iran that the demand had been dropped and they
could not independently confirm the statement.
A fresh blast of arctic air swirled into the already frozen
Northeast on Sunday, snarling traffic on ice-clogged water
ways from New England to Maryland.
Foot-long ice blocks bobbed in the Chesapeake Bay
where the Coast Guard restricted navigation to steel-hulled
boats.
Traffic through the Cape Cod Canal was suspended
Friday when large ice flows blocked the waterway, which
permits ships to bypass the Massachusetts cape
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. - Actor Richard Boone, best
known for his role as the hired gun Paladin in the "Have Gun
Will Travel" television series, is dead at 63.
The craggy-faced veteran actor, who retired here to paint
in 1972 and was the state of Florida's cultural ambassador,
died Saturday night at his home of cancer of the throat.
Boone had entered a hospital for an undisclosed illness
in October 1979 but was later released.
A spokesman at Craig Funeral Home in St Augustine
said Boone’s body was to be cremated and a private service
held. The family asked that no flowers be sent.
Boone won three Peabody Awards, including one for his
role as Dr. Styner in the "Medic" television series, which ran
from 1954 to 1956 He was nominated as best actor five times
by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
He portrayed the late John Wayne’s adversary in the films
"Big Jake" in 1971 and "The Shootist" in 1976, but was better
known for his television roles.
"Have Gun Will Travel," one of television’s classic
Western series, was produced by CBS from 1957 to 1963. As
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