Israeli Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon’s efforts to form a national unity government hit a snag. Likud officials blamed the delay on strife within the Labor Party over the possibility that outgoing premier Ehud Barak, who earlier had promised to resign, would take the defense portfolio.
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