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...sound: voices are accompanied by rustling leaves, slithering tentacles, the flapping of prehistoric winds and the crawling of spiders as they descend on a small New England town. The latest Warner tapes are described by Deutsch as a "new version of old-time radio," complete with scores and sounds. Chaim Potok's The Chosen (Warner), read by Eli Wallach, is augmented by news broadcasts, crowd noises and mood music; Louis L'Amour's A Trail to the West (Bantam) features hoofbeats and gunshots reminiscent of a 1940s Lone Ranger episode...
...weeks ago, Labor Prime Minister Shimon Peres and Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, his Likud partner in the national unity government, hoped for a quick end to the controversy when President Chaim Herzog pardoned Shalom of any crimes committed in the affair. In exchange, Shalom handed in his resignation. Three other officials of the agency were also pardoned...
Under an arrangement worked out during an all-night meeting, Avraham Shalom, the central figure in the controversy, resigned as director of Shin Bet, Israel's domestic security agency. He was immediately granted a pardon by President Chaim Herzog...
...announcement of Shalom's resignation and pardon galled former Justice Minister Chaim Zadok, who had sought an investigation into the Arabs' deaths. Said he: "For the Shin Bet, the lesson to be learned is that you can commit serious crimes. For the political echelon, the lesson is you can do anything you please and will not bear responsibility...
While Jewish leaders were upset at the omission, Israel's President Chaim Herzog termed the Pope's visit an important step toward "the correcting of the injustice which the church perpetrated on the Jewish people during 1,500 years." To Rabbi Toaff, the occasion was "a turning point in the history of the church," one that finally "puts the two religions on a level of equality...