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Recently, however, Israel's vaunted state-security apparatus seems to have gone amuck. Shin Bet has been under a cloud for some time, but especially since last summer, when its director and three aides were forced to resign amid allegations of complicity in the murders of two captured Arab bus hijackers. In October a technician at Israel's top-secret nuclear complex at Dimona, Mordechai Vanunu, revealed the purported details of the country's nuclear weapons program, never officially acknowledged, in London's Sunday Times. He was later reportedly lured to Rome by a female MOSSAD agent and kidnaped...
This is the first "death" sentence levied since the 1985 N.C.A.A. reforms, undertaken when educators finally panicked at the familiar spectacle of alumni boosters running amuck. Corrupt football practices are not unique to Dallas or the Southwest Conference, though the climate seems perfect there all the year. Three of the nine S.W.C. schools will be on probation this year...
...main question facing the board is how a small department, with headquarters in the White House and operating with a budget of only $4 million, could run so dangerously amuck. The answer seems to be that it offered everything Reagan wanted as an instrument of policy. The NSC is protected by Executive privilege, immune to congressional oversight, secretive and small enough to be virtually leakproof. Though the NSC has enjoyed high influence in previous Administrations, the agency has rarely attained the degree of autonomy that it has under Ronald Reagan. But critics charge that the NSC has been playing outside...
...than any other in U.S. history. Strung out along main drags in every city, fast-food franchises become the strip, identically chaotic collages of glowing signs and prefab construction. The helter-skelter of the strip is the urban critic's most convenient cliche --cheap-jack American laissez-faire run amuck...
Though he can claim credit for inventing many of the tools of modern corporate mergers, Rohatyn (pronounced Row-ah-tin) these days is like the sorcerer whose apprentices have run amuck. Last week, speaking before a group of TIME editors, he criticized the new excesses of takeover madness and warned that these practices are endangering the health of the American financial system. Said he: "Today things are getting badly out of hand...