The World - News from Oct. 14, 1988
Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, rivals in Israel’s Nov. 1 election, agreed to hold a single, prerecorded debate that will be shown on television eight days before the balloting. Under an accord between the parties, Israel Television’s Washington correspondent, Nissim Mishal, will chair the debate and decide whether the two will answer prearranged questions, as Shamir has demanded, or debate spontaneously, as Peres wants. Opinion polls show Shamir’s right-wing Likud Bloc and Peres’ center-left Labor Alignment neck and neck, raising the prospect of another deadlocked Parliament.
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