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The World - News from Jan. 10, 1986

Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres failed to win backing from his “inner cabinet” on resolving a border dispute with Egypt, officials said. The 10-man body met for five hours to discuss new Egyptian proposals on a small strip of Sinai beach called Taba, the return of Cairo’s ambassador to Israel and improved trade and tourism relations. Peres wants to accept Egypt’s call for the border dispute to go to arbitration. Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, leader of the rightist bloc, says Cairo should first return its ambassador to Israel before the land dispute is settled.

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