Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seeds of Rabin's humiliating downfall had been germinating for weeks, ever since the Tel Aviv daily newspaper Ha'aretz reported that the Premier's wife had held a bank account in Washington for the past four years (TIME, March 28). It is illegal for Israeli citizens to keep money abroad without special permission, and Mrs. Rabin had not sought such permission. She provided an explanation that sounded convincing enough at the time: the account at the National Bank of Washington, which amounted to about $2,000, was an old one, dating from the years...
Though his wife was in charge of family finances, Rabin was co-signer on the account, and. he conceded, "the responsibility was mine as much as hers." A lawyer for the couple also said that the Rabins had been unaware that a foreign account such as theirs had to be closed within a reasonable time after their return to Israel...
...Rabins had not told the whole story. As Finance Ministry officials went over the bank records, they discovered a second account, containing nearly $6,000. In all, the Rabins had $18,700 in the two accounts when they left Washington, and they had transferred only some $10,500 back home. Israel's Attorney General Aharon Barak decided that the matter was serious enough to justify calling in the state prosecutor to investigate further. He also decided that Mrs. Rabin bears responsibility for the accounts; if found guilty in court, she could face up to three years in jail...
Indefatigable, Peres nowadays begins touring military installations at dawn and frequently works until midnight. Despite his heavy work load, he finds time to write poetry, which he keeps to himself, and has published two books, including David's Sling, an autobiographical account of his role in building Israel's defenses. At home in his small, book-lined apartment in Tel Aviv, where he lives with his wife Sonia and two of his three children, he speaks mainly of literature; his tastes range from Norman Mailer to Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Yukio Mishima...
Johnson clicked for her second in this half, Rachel Gaffney and Betsy McIntyre added one apiece, while Sue Abkowitz with dinner approaching and Boston University groping, tallied an insulting hat trick to account for the final margin...