President Zalman Shazar said today that he could not condemn Israel’s striking high school teachers but maintained that the government’s fair offer to meet some of their demands “has taken the wind out of their sails.” President Shazar spoke to a joint delegation of parents and pupils who visited his home to protest the month-long walkout which has affected tens of thousands of Israeli teen-agers. Education Minister Yigal Allon who was present at the meeting, accused the teachers of going back on their word. The high school parents demonstrated outside the Knesset building at noon today demanding that the government and the teachers union act quickly to end the strike. A delegation visited the Knesset Speaker. But the strikers and the government remained at an impasse following yesterday’s meeting of union leaders with Premier Golda Meir who told them the government could not afford to meet their wage demands.
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