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ON FORMING A GOVERNMENT. I would like a government of national security, meaning all the parties except the Communists. I would like the Labor Party in, but if [the party's leaders] refuse, then we shall say we regret it but it is their decision. We shall try to have a government in which the majority in the Knesset will express its confidence. We will not even try to form a minority government as Labor has now. We consider the Democratic Movement for Change to be a serious candidate for the coalition. But we would not accept a D.M.C. ultimatum that we hold new elections in two years to get electoral reform. I would like a national unity government because now is an exceptional situation for Israel, both externally and internally. It is a serious situation. 1977 might be the year of political negotiations.