Word: murkier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bureau's investigation shed light on a number of the murkier aspects of the crime. After exploring the mountains of transcripts, memoranda and telex messages, TIME Correspondent Hays Gorey sent this summary of the 40,001 pages of FBI documents...
Between his release from Hussein's prison in 1973 and his arrest this month in Paris, Abu Daoud's doings have been murkier than ever. He apparently has concentrated on diplomatic chores for the P.L.O., part of the time in Baghdad. But Daoud also commanded a Palestinian unit that fought with Moslem leftists in Beirut during the Lebanon civil war. Partly because he dropped out of terrorist work and partly because they think he is still working for the Jordanians, Israeli intelligence insists that he is no longer a prime target. "We don't kill spies...
Cover Blown. Even murkier was the relationship between Schorr and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, a Washington-based group that gives legal aid to journalists involved in first amendment-related disputes. Schorr approached the committee for help in getting the Pike papers published, and through the help of the committee was put in touch with a literary agent who explored various possibilities; the committee agreed to accept as a donation any proceeds from the sale of the report...
Frome and some of his partisans insist that Stream's waters are murkier than that. Frome claims that after Samson was made editor in 1972, he was told not to "name names." Frome says that Samson, for example, refused to publish his criticism of John McGuire, chief of the Forest Service. Frome insists: "They want to play it safe and steady...
...some days, downtown Tel Aviv has more smog than Los Angeles. The water in the Sea of Galilee grows murkier by the year. Crime is on the increase: there were so many bank robberies in Tel Aviv last summer that the government had to bring in a force of tough, green-bereted border police from the Gaza Strip. Traffic jams are commonplace; for this year's celebration, all roads into Jerusalem will be closed for 24 hours to avoid the customary holiday snarl...