Moshe Arens, who is slated to become Israel's new Foreign Minister, has something in common with his predecessor, Shimon Peres: he looks and acts like a gentleman diplomat. But while Peres, the head of the Labor Party, played the moderate during his two years in the post, Arens is expected to act the hard- liner. Arens, 63, was one of the few Israeli politicians who refused to support the Camp David peace accords with Egypt in 1978, and no one expects him to display any less determination in pressing his opposition to negotiating with the Palestine Liberation Organization. Warns a U.S....
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