In the published transcript of the tapes, Mr. dos Santos Neto, the fugitive judge, boasts of using "my connection" to persuade the planning minister to authorize the outlay.
Then, as the meeting adjourned, Mr. Dayan, casually leaning against the door and talking as if he were raising only a minor point, asked the prime minister to authorize Mr. Freier to initiate the necessary preparations for a "demonstration option" — that is, a demonstration of Israel's nuclear weapons capability.
Repeatedly, lawmakers called on the prime minister to authorize an independent judicial investigation entirely free of the government's control instead of a new inquiry by the joint Commons and Lords intelligence and security committee, which will parallel one by the House's foreign affairs panel.
"I shall stand on my own," Mr. Peres said, although the coalition agreement states that the prime minister has to authorize any diplomatic initiative in advance.
Questions about Germany's enthusiasm for the rescue plan persisted, with a German government spokesman saying a full summit meeting of euro zone ministers would be needed to authorize any aid.
Two Scottish courts had previously ruled against Trump, who had claimed the Scottish ministers had no power to authorize the wind farm.
Around the same time, the newly elected Prime Minister, John Major, went on to authorize a no-fly zone to protect the Kurds in northern Iraq after Saddam's occupation of Kuwait was ended by a UN-sanctioned military campaign.
After the British Parliament on Thursday rejected Prime Minister David Cameron's proposal to authorize military action against Syria, French President Francois Hollande said Friday that the British decision wouldn't weaken his government's commitment to sanction the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad.
While President Obama tries to persuade Congress to support his plan for punitive airstrikes against Syria, Britons are still debating the meaning of Parliament's 285-to-272 vote last week not to authorize Prime Minister David Cameron to commit British military forces to join in those strikes.
The dispute between the Brazilian government and Roche, the Swiss drug maker, intensified yesterday as the company asked to meet with the country's health minister, who repeated his threat to authorize generic copies of Roche's AIDS medicine Viracept.
