Sharon's party rejects pullout plan

Militant attack influences vote

By Dan Ephron

Globe Correspondent / May 3, 2004

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JERUSALEM -- Members of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Likud party firmly rejected his plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip and four settlements in the West Bank in a referendum yesterday, plunging Israeli politics into disarray and casting a pall over the leadership of Sharon, whose ''disengagement plan" from the Palestinians had become a cornerstone of his premiership. (Full Article: 1060 Words)