The World - News from Oct. 16, 1986

Israeli leaders continued to quarrel over key jobs in the next government, delaying for a second day Shimon Peres’ promised transfer of power to Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir. With the two sides unable to form a Cabinet, Parliament postponed indefinitely a meeting to approve a new government. Peres, caretaker prime minister, met with Shamir but made no progress, aides said. Industry and Trade Minister Ariel Sharon, a leader in Shamir’s Likud Bloc, accused Peres’ Labor Alignment of “trying to extort concessions from us” by holding up approval for key jobs. Under a rotation agreement worked out after an election deadlock in 1984, Shamir is due to become prime minister after Peres’ 25 months in power.