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In London, the left-wing tabloid Daily Mirror said that Trimble, the first minister-designate of a new devolved Northern Ireland government (which was supposed to have been formed, but wasn't, at Thursday's chaotic inaugural meeting of the provincial parliament in Belfast), should give his prize back to the Swedes.
On the forthcoming Middle East summit at Wye Plantation outside Washington, Ha'aretz of Israel reported Sunday as its main story that Ariel Sharon, Israel's new hard-line foreign minister-designate, will act as a "watchdog" over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to ensure he doesn't make too many concessions to the Palestinians.
According to the NYT , Yeltsin is increasingly acting like a lame duck as attention turns to Prime Minister-designate Viktor Chernomyrdin's likely alliance with Communists and the financial elite.