President Zalman Shazar continued consultations today with all factions in the Knesset (Parliament) in an effort to line up a consensus before naming Mr. Golda Meir Premier-designate and asking her to form a new government. He ran into dissent from several splinter parties but this was not considered likely to have any effect on his appointment of Mrs. Meir which is expected to be announced tomorrow.
Shmuel Tamir, head of the Free Center faction, an offshoot of the Herut Party with four seats in the Knesset, proposed that a member of the younger generation of the Labor Party be entrusted with the formation of a government rather than Mrs. Meir, who will be 71 in May. Uri Avneri, a magazine editor who comprises the one-man Haolam Hazeh faction, wanted the national elections advanced and proposed Israel’s Ambassador to the United States, Gen. Yitzhak Rabin, for the premiership.
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