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€6000 fund THE continued instability of the Begin government was underlined this week by the court verdict that Welfare Minister Aharon Abuhatzeira is guilty of fraud, breach of trust and larceny.

. Begin only has a Parliamentary majority of two for his ruling coalition. Abuhatzjera's party has three seats -and his Moroccan Jewish supporters are claiming that the . court case was a set-up engineered Dy. western Jews. 1L--Illaadron larsro But this pressure, together with the tensions created "by the military evictions of fanatical Zionist zealots from settlements in the *Northern Sinai, intensifies rather than reducing the • danger of new Zionist milit• 'ary adventures.

Begin could well seek to save face by responding to growing demands from the military and other forces that he mount an invasion of * Lebanon to crush concentra- tions of PLO resistance fight* ers and dispossessed Palestinians.

Fight Repeated assurances by the government that it has no plans for such an invasion are widely discounted. As one government spokesman pointed out, "If there is ever any plan to strike against the PLO, we won't put it out in a press release" • Israeli troops and armour have been moved north, and regularly conduct exercises in a 10-mile stretch of South Lebanon controlled by the Zionists' fascist ally Major Saad Haddad.

Zionist commanders have declared themselves réady to move as far north as Beirut - while their US sponsors, fearful of the final collapse of the Camp David peace' accords, sit back unable to affect developments without seriously weakening Israel as their principal point of support in must expa racia Zion activ to tl iniar n the Middle East. 'he workers' movement i mobilise against the insionism and vicious I oppression of the list state, and provide re support and solidarity he struggle of the Palest1 masses.

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limited action, including bans on non emergency admissions and the admission of private patients to NHS hospitals.

But even this action is not to begin until April 26 (a month after the review date). And it is not an instruction but an authorisation to branches, thus ensuring that it will be only patchily implemented.

Now NUPE has gone one better. Under the guise of being ultra-democratic, its patch below).

er supporters in the print in Oxford.

a substantial amount for the fund. partial strikes and its eventual sell-out in the hands of the Clegg "comparability' board, health workers are plainly reluctant to become embroiled once again in such half-cock action.

A firm lead from COHSE and NUPE, calling for all-out strikes with a policy of emergency cover under the control of local strike compaid out to nurses.

The case for a fight is a cast-iron one. Government pay offers to ancillary workers in the last two years - 4% and 8% - mean a 13% cut in living standards. Nurses have faced a 25% cut in living standards. Nurses have faced a 25% cut in living standards since the Clegg awards of 1979. White