Word: bets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last thing that Shin Bet, Israel's equivalent of the FBI, needs is the hint of fresh scandal. The agency has been reeling from charges that it covered up the murders of two captured Arab bus hijackers in 1984, an affair that led eleven top Shin Bet officials to accept a presidential pardon in order to avoid possible criminal charges. Yet last week, amid newspaper headlines that screamed NEW SCANDAL, more trouble is exactly what Shin Bet...
...left too, eventually. On the way to the St. Charles Avenue streetcar I engaged in a brief discussion with a small boy who wanted to bet me that he could guess where I'd bought my loafers. A tall man gave me a warning glance as he passed: "On your feet, man. It's Bourbon Street...
This year's Passover in Israel, however, will not be a totally festive occasion, for the country's mood is one of anxiety and uncertainty rather than hope and promise. Israel's national spirit is sagging under the weight of a succession of embarrassing scandals. These include the Shin Bet affair, in which two Arab terrorists were killed while in the custody of Israeli security officials in 1984, and Jerusalem's role in the Iranscam arms deals and the Jonathan Jay Pollard spy case, which involved an American Jew spying on the U.S. for Israel...
Ironically, the ruling coalition will probably shield Israel's top politicians from having to shoulder the blame. Much as Shamir, Peres and Rabin have evaded responsibility and protected one another throughout the Shin Bet and Iran-contra scandals, so they are expected to maintain a united front of professed ignorance about the Pollard operation. "If we had one major party in power, you'd find a scapegoat. But here they all hang together because everybody's implicated," charges Shlomo Avineri, a former director general of the Israeli Foreign Ministry. "You can't scapegoat anyone. That would mean a breakup...
...though it's still early in the season, the Harvard varsity heavyweights are a good bet to be winners quite frequently in this, their 128th season of competition...