Word: concealment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though the attackers made every effort to conceal their identities, suspicion immediately centered on fanatic Jewish settlers. The apparent motive: to obtain revenge for the murder of Aharon Gross, 18, an American emigrant who was stabbed three weeks earlier as he was waiting for a bus near the market in Hebron's old Jewish quarter. So far, no one has been arrested for Gross's murder, but witnesses said his assailants were Arabs...
...established diplomatic ties with China, while preserving Japan's lucrative economic ties with Taiwan. But Tanaka's popularity caught up with him in 1974, when a Japanese magazine exposed the fact that he had used a skein of dummy corporations and false tax statements to conceal his shadowy ways of making money. Amid the public uproar that ensued, Tanaka felt compelled to resign...
Private arms dealers like Hashemi and De Mello account for much of the sales to Iran. At Iran's insistence, Hashemi set up various business entities to try to conceal his U.S. connections: his R.R.C. Co. in Stamford with its rug-shop front; a subsidiary in London; a separate company, Zoomer Fly Ltd., also in London. Hashemi's brother Cyrus, who was president of the now-defunct First Gulf Bank & Trust, helped finance the Zoomer Fly operation...
...affair. So did David Owen, 44, Tony Benn, 58, and Peter Shore, 59, who last week all raised their pinkies in emphatic, if somewhat wistful, denial of ever having had anything to do with MacLaine. Then she allowed that perhaps she did some Gerrymandering of the clues to conceal her ex-lover's identity. So still high on the list of suspects is Andrew Peacock, 44, a dashing member of Australia's last Conservative government, who is a longstanding friend of the actress. MacLaine now considers all the fuss a bother. "Affairs of state," she told a pack...
...Hanna Schygulla); and various peripheral caricatures of the aristocracy. The wit, the life-blood of an era contained in one carriage, offer the potential for a rich entertainment, but the result is an uneven and tedious sequence of quarrels and flirtations, the names and costumes of history failing to conceal the mediocrity of this entertainment. As Casanova admits at one stage: "The old man didn't take your breath away, but his name, his reputation, his past," Restif's entertaining and informing role as the film's guide-the Fool who lives by his wits--offers an irony typical...