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...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...
...defendant, said Federal Prosecutor John Douglass, was nothing short of a walking "gold mine" of U.S. intelligence capabilities. He knew how the U.S. was able to intercept the Soviet Union's "command and control" communications, which contained military instructions from "the highest level" of the Kremlin to the next echelon of authority, according to the defendant's former supervisor. He was familiar with a top-secret program for processing encoded Soviet messages and aware that it was being given an "upgraded capability" that would maintain its usefulness into the 1990s. He was the author of a 60-page "encyclopedia...
...Falle maintains his 2.91 goals-against average, second only to Blair's in the ECAC, and the offense can score some clutch goals, then expect Clarkson to battle atop the upper echelon of ECAC hockey...
...last week, when we got smashed 35-0 [in a preseason scrimmage], the first half was like a golden rainbow. It was just super for us. And I just felt we should have built on that and really done a really great job. Believe me, we had the top echelon football team dead and buried at halftime...we rendered a great quarterback to a very, very ineffective person. We took away their offense. Our defense played magnificently. [Harvardrunning back Robert] Santiago wasn't even in the game. It's a throwback to the woes of 25 years. The first black...
Accordingly, in keeping with the shake-up that has been under way throughout the country for some time, it is expected that as many as nine members of the party's so-called third echelon (see box) could be named to the 24-member Politburo, while between 30 and 50 newcomers could replace party veterans on the 210-member Central Committee. Says a middle-level official: "The changes will be part of a flowing movement rather than an abrupt one, but they will be substantial and profound." Deng, who knows full well that no program of reforms is irreversible...