Word: bets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...terrorists died in an army assault on the bus, and the other two were wounded and died on the way to the hospital. But, in fact, two terrorists were photographed being led away alive. Former senior officials of the internal-security agency, known in Hebrew as Shin Bet, later charged that Avraham Shalom, head of the agency, had ordered the two Palestinians clubbed to death...
...focus squarely on Shamir, who was Prime Minister at the time of the bus hijacking and is scheduled to assume that post again in October under a power-sharing arrangement in which he and Peres are to switch jobs. Some observers are convinced that behind the Shin Bet controversy is a Labor Party wish to keep Shamir from taking power. Shamir denies any wrongdoing, and he has stubbornly opposed an official inquiry. But at week's end he finally acceded to a limited investigation. All the time Shamir continued to maintain that in this case, the rule of law must...
...Shalom had written a letter to President Herzog, pleading that "all my actions in the matter of Bus 300 were carried out by authority and with permission." According to Israeli press accounts, that permission could only have come from Shamir, since the Prime Minister has sole authority over Shin Bet...
...from lawyers and public officials charging that the Shalom pardon was illegal, the Israeli Supreme Court last week took up the case. After two days of hearings, a three- justice panel ordered the government to show by July 14 why it should not begin a police probe of Shin Bet. If the court eventually orders an investigation, Shamir and the Likud will be forced to go along...
...rare occasions Israelis have been charged with spying, never before has an intelligence figure been tried as a turncoat. The trial would have been the subject of immediate headlines, but Israeli military censors succeeded at first in suppressing all mention of the case in the Israeli press. Ironically, Shin Bet officials, who played the major role in exposing the spy, want to publicize the trial in order to demonstrate anew their prowess as the guardians of Israel's security...