Lifetimes of low-lying levels in the one and three-quasiparticle bands
in Ce-133 have been measured using the recoil-distance Doppler-shift
technique. The E2 transition strengths extracted for the negative pari
ty yrast states are well described by the triaxial-rotor-plus-quasipar
ticle and the geometrical models, but the interacting-boson-plus-fermi
on predictions are too small by about a factor of 3. The B(M1) values
extracted for the levels in the positive parity three-quasiparticle ba
nd are consistent with the previous vh(11/2)x pi h(11/2)x pi g(7/2) co
nfiguration assignment to this band.