Labor Party OKs Likud Talks
From Reuters
TEL AVIV —
The Labor Party of Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres voted today to resume talks it had severed with the rightist Likud Party on forming another national unity government, Israel Radio said.
The radio said the vote, after several hours of heated debate by the 1,300 members of the party’s central committee, was 690 in favor and 390 against. The vote was a key test of support for party leader Peres, who made an impassioned plea to join a government led by Likud Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir.
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