When Shamir blinked: Assad's new role. (Yitzchak Shamir, Hafez al-Assad)(proposed Middle East peace conference) (Cover Story)

From: The New Leader | Date: August 12, 1991| Author: | Copyright information

AS FOREIGN MINISTER David Levi told it on television, the Middle East peace conference in advance among friends: Israel gave its OK and agreed that the details should be worked out later. But to hundreds of Israeli and foreign correspondents, the week before the July 30-31 Moscow summit looked more like the start of a game of chicken between Prime Minister Yitzchak Shaniir and Secretary of State James A. Baker III.

The contest ended when, inevitably, Shamir blinked first after President George Bush announced at a joint press conference with President Mikhail S. Gorbachev that ...

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