World IN BRIEF : ISRAEL : Sharon, Eitan Join Defense Committee
From Times staff and Wire reports
Yitzhak Shamir’s new right-wing Cabinet gave former generals Ariel Sharon and Rafael Eitan their biggest say in military policy since both were reprimanded for actions during the 1982 Lebanon invasion. At its first meeting, the Cabinet named Sharon, a former defense minister, and Eitan, chief of staff during the Lebanon invasion, to the 11-man ministerial Defense Committee. Sharon, a leader of the conservative Likud Party, also was named chairman of a Cabinet committee overseeing the immigration of Soviet Jews.
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