Sharon Calls for Immediate Measures to Bring End to Palestinian Uprising

In the wake of the brutal murder Saturday night of two Israeli teen-agers, Ariel Sharon temporarily put aside his crusade for a massive housing program to demand immediate measures to end the intifada.

The outspoken minister of construction and housing, saying there should be no more talk of reducing the Palestinian uprising to a tolerable level, called for the immediate deportation of some 150 alleged “leaders of the intifada” he said were living in East Jerusalem.

“This very night,” he emphasized.

Sharon told a meeting of the Likud Political Committee in Tel Aviv that the intifada “should be eliminated now.” He repeatedly used the word “lechassel,” meaning to destroy, and declared that “he who is incapable of doing that should step aside.”

His remark was seen as a direct swipe at Defense Minister Moshe Arens, Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir’s choice to preside over the defense establishment, which Sharon headed when Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982.

Sharon has often said that he could break the intifada “in three days” if not constrained by public opinion at home and abroad.

Now he appeared to be suggesting that the government can safely take the measures he advocates, at a time when most Israelis are furious over the murder of the two teen-agers and world opinion is preoccupied with the Persian Gulf crisis.

Sharon blamed terrorism and the intifada on the “series of spurious unity governments.”

But now, a “national government is in power, unfettered by the Labor Party and its wrong headed policies,” Sharon said.

He said Israel should not be ashamed to seek more military aid from the United States, because it is America’s most credible and reliable ally in the region.