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...several occasions, the panel, headed by Chief Justice Yitzhak Kahan, questioned Sharon on the wisdom of the original plan to send the Lebanese Forces into the camps of their enemies, the Palestinians, in order to clean out any remaining pockets of Palestinian guerrilla resistance. Had the Israeli officials involved not realized that such a massacre of civilians might take place? they asked. Replied Sharon: "I would say that no one thought the Lebanese Forces would behave like us. I didn't think so. Our I.D.F. has its own moral code. But it is a very far cry indeed from...
...voted to launch a high-level judicial inquiry into Israel's role in the massacre. The move was an about-face by Begin, who had initially refused to consider such a probe. Instead, he had sought to limit the political damage by appointing Supreme Court Chief Justice Yitzhak Kahan, 69, as a special investigator but one without explicit authority to compel witnesses to testify or to demand documents. Begin's chosen investigator did not go along with the plan. Since two petitions demanding a full-scale judicial commission of inquiry had been filed with the Supreme Court, Kahan...
...Kahan last week named Supreme Court Justice Aharon Barak, 45, and Reserve General Yona Efrat, 56, to serve with him on the commission...
...Begin's Likud coalition, twice supported the Prime Minister last week: it refused to condemn the Israeli invasion of West Beirut, and it refused to call for a formal commission of inquiry. Only after days of rising protest did Begin agree to ask Supreme Court Chief Justice Yitzhak Kahan to conduct an investigation. If he undertakes the assignment, Kahan will probably not have the power to subpoena witnesses, which will surely hamper his probe. By appointing Kahan to the task, Begin quieted some of his foes and bought himself a little time. But his government was in deep trouble...
...called cyclosporine, the heart transplant may become the more nearly routine operation doctors once envisioned. Developed by the Swiss firm Sandoz Ltd., cyclosporine is a natural fungal compound that somehow blocks the production of those white cells that cause rejection but not those that fight infection. Says Dr. Barry Kahan, head of the organ-transplant division of the University of Texas Medical School at Houston and a colleague of Cooley's: "This is the secret ingredient, the thing that unlocks the door to transplants...