Information Minister Aharon Yariv formally handed in his resignation to the Cabinet yesterday, It will take effect Tuesday. No decision has yet been taken as to the fate of the fledgling information Ministry. Yariv himself recommends that it be retained in its present structure, but as a department within the Prime Minister’s Office rather than as an independent ministry. The alternative would be to dismember it, and return the various units that com-Prise it to the Foreign Ministry, the Education Ministry and the other ministries and agencies whence they came.
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