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DATE: SUNDAY, June 10, 1990                   TAG: 9006100103
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-5   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: AMMAN, JORDAN                                LENGTH: Short

ARABS BLAST SHAMIR COALITION'S PLATFORM

Arab leaders on Saturday condemned the new right-wing government in Israel and blamed the United States for allowing hard-line Israeli policies against the Palestinians.

Arab leaders also called on the United States to link aid to Israel with cooperation in Mideast peace efforts.

An expansion of settlements in the occupied lands is among the policies of the new Israeli coalition formed Friday by Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir. The coalition also pledged to "uproot" the 30-month-old Palestinian uprising in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip and renewed Israel's refusal to talk with the Palestine Liberation Organization, which it regards as a terrorist group.

In Jordan, Foreign Minister Marwan Kassem said, "In its current formula and with Shamir's statements of his government's policies, all hopes for a just and comprehensive peace in the Middle East are destroyed," he said. - Associated Press 


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