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What's a Jewish boy from Watertown to do amidst all these Irish Catholics? That's the question State Sen. George Bachrach (D-Watertown) has been asking ever since Joseph P. Kennedy II entered the Eighth Congressional District race last fall. You can also bet that the rest of the candidates in the district are wondering the same thing, only with a slightly different ethnic twist, such as: What's a grandson of Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 to do when competing against another political icon...
Perhaps the most vital ingredient in Boeing's success is its willingness to bet billions of dollars, and sometimes the whole company, on new types of planes. In the late 1960s, Boeing executives risked more than $1 billion on the first jumbo jet, the 747, and nearly drove the firm into bankruptcy. A decade later Boeing rolled the dice again by investing $3 billion in the simultaneous development of two fuel-efficient, twin-engine jets, the trim 757 and the wide-body...
Attorney General Zamir became involved when three disaffected senior officials of Shin Bet came to him with evidence that the agency director, Avraham Shalom, whose name first became public last week when it was published abroad, had covered up Shin Bet's involvement in the death of two Palestinians who had commandeered a bus south of Tel Aviv in April 1984. The two terrorists were photographed being led away from the bus alive but later turned up dead, after being severely beaten. Two of their companions were killed in the assault on the bus, along with a female Israeli soldier...
...commissions of inquiry and one court-martial looked into the beating deaths. However, Israeli security personnel involved were cleared in part because of contradictory testimony from the military and Shin Bet on the question of when and where the two men died. The charges that Zamir might bring against Shalom are said to include tampering with evidence, suborning witnesses before the investigating commissions and withholding relevant documents. The worst allegation against Shalom: that he may have been responsible for covering up Shin Bet's involvement in the killing of the two terrorists...
Attorney General Zamir described the pressure for him to drop his investigation as "intense." Such a bipartisan effort to sidetrack a legal inquiry, which is not subject to Cabinet control, is most unusual; it reflects the government's extreme sensitivity to disclosures about the inner workings of Shin Bet. Nonetheless, support for Zamir and due process of law mounted steadily. Asked former Foreign Minister Abba Eban: "Should law bow before power? Should it abdicate?" Warned the Jerusalem Post: "The foundations of the rule of law in Israel may be in grave jeopardy...