1. Army generals held consultations with settler leaders and spoke with Mordechai, who was at the weekly Cabinet session in Jerusalem. 2. After the Cabinet session on Thursday, some ministers said that they had discussed giving the police special powers and a free hand to use them. 3. Cabinet sessions are of limited utility, a place for preliminary conversations about pending problems and pep talks for policies already determined. 4. In the book she recalls how probing reporters pounced when Rosalynn Carter attended Cabinet sessions and took notes at the behest of her husband. 5. It was not clear what Sezer said, but it prompted the government to call an emergency Cabinet session Monday afternoon. 6. Part of the problem is that a Cabinet session focusing on the matter was cut short by word of the bombing in central Israel. 7. Reuters also reported that Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and some other Cabinet ministers walked out of the late night Cabinet session before the vote. 8. The newly elected premier there, Gordon Campbell of the Liberal Party, recently invited television stations to broadcast his first Cabinet session live. 9. The statement was issued after a special Cabinet session that was called after the killing of two French soldiers in Sarajevo last weekend. 10. President Clinton is expected to meet Israeli ministers at an informal Cabinet session after the international conference on terrorism, an Israeli official said Sunday. |
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