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...Hebrew, figures can be expressed by letters of the alphabet. The combinations of letters that represent larger numbers may, coincidentally, spell out words. A while ago, Israeli Cultural Affairs Minister Zevulun Hammer must have flipped a few months ahead in his calendar book. To his surprise, he found that the letters of the next year on the Jewish Calendar--5744, which starts next fall--spell out in clear-as-day Hebrew "destroy...
...last week, the forward-looking Hammer announced his proposal that the government shuffle the numbers a bit for the upcoming year. Instead of transcribing into letters the sequence "five-seven hundred-forty-four," the normal procedure, he suggested that the figure read: "five-three hundred-four-forty-four hundred." In sum, the jumble of letters would add up to the same total...
Those not inclined to mathematical pursuits may find the rear-ranged figure cumbersome to decipher. But the benefits of Hammer's innovative and foresighted solution would far outweigh the potential confusion. The new combination would prevent the wide-spread proliferation of documents unwittingly displaying a call to destruction all over Israel...
...ruling made it unlikely that the masterminds of the murders would quickly, if ever, be punished. For that reason, the AFL-CIO last week in Washington revealed details of the killings and their aftermath that had not yet been made public. Two of the victims, Michael Peter Hammer, 42, an agrarian reform specialist, and Lawyer Mark David Pearlman, 36, were in El Salvador on assignment for the American Institute for Free Labor Development, the AFL-CIO's Latin-American arm. The third victim, José Rodolfo Viera, 43, was both head of the farmworkers' union and president...
...Julian Hammer...