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- WORLD, Page 39World NotesISRAELThe Likud Scores Big
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- The nationwide municipal elections were not about road
- improvements and garbage collection -- or so said Israeli Prime
- Minister Yitzhak Shamir. "Every vote for the Likud," he
- proclaimed at an election rally, "means that Israel wants no
- business with the murderers of our sons." When the votes were
- tallied last week, his right-wing Likud bloc had carried 44 of
- the 99 municipalities, up from 26 in 1983. Elated, Shamir
- claimed an ideological victory for his policies opposing both
- territorial compromise and talks with the Palestine Liberation
- Organization.
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- The stunning upset ended decades of Labor Party dominance in
- numerous key regions. With more Labor strongholds expected to
- fall in runoff elections scheduled for next week, Labor leader
- Shimon Peres grudgingly agreed to an investigation into the
- humiliating defeat.
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- In Jerusalem legendary Mayor Teddy Kollek, 77, won a sixth
- term in office with 59% of the vote. But his Labor-affiliated
- party, One Jerusalem, lost its majority on the powerful city
- council, in part because of low Arab turnout.
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