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...Israelis have done in regard to the Arabs in the territories. And the conflict there, considered in light of Israel's history in the past decade -- the invasion of Lebanon, the de facto annexation of the territories through settlement by Israelis, many of whom are religious fundamentalists, the Pollard affair in which the Israeli government assigned an American Jew to spy on the U.S., the Israeli involvement in the Iran-contra enterprise -- has raised the question of whether Israel has lost its way. Israel's accomplishments have the prestige of the miraculous. To many Jews, Israel is a fact...
DIED. Catherine Pollard, 88, the Boy Scouts of America's first female scoutmaster; in Seminole, Fla. Pollard, who had filled in as temporary leader of a troop in Milford, Conn., in the 1970s when no man volunteered, applied for the permanent job but was told women were not appropriate role models. Following a decade-long legal battle, the Scouts appointed her Milford's scoutmaster...
Another discovery, first published online by Nature two months ago, describes a gene that appears to play a role in human brain development. A team led by biostatistician Katherine Pollard, now at the University of California, Davis, and Sofie Salama, of U.C. Santa Cruz, used a sophisticated computer program to search the genomes of humans, chimps and other vertebrates for segments that have undergone changes at substantially accelerated rates. They eventually homed in on 49 discrete areas they dubbed human accelerated regions, or HARS...
According to an internal investigation ordered by Prime Minister Shimon Peres, which leaked even as it was being presented to the Israeli Cabinet, Pollard worked for an unnamed high-level Israeli official who specialized in counterterrorism and ran his own spying operation in Washington. At least two Israeli newspapers named the official as Rafi Eitan, who served under former Prime Ministers Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir as special adviser on counterterrorism from 1978 to 1984. When Peres came into power last year, he removed Eitan from his counterterrorism post but bowed to pressure and kept him on in a vaguer...
Experienced agents acknowledge that it is common for friendly nations to spy on each other. "You do what you can," said former CIA Director Richard Helms, adding "Getting caught is the sin." Most observers doubt that Pollard passed along information of great importance, since Israel is already privy to most American secrets. "Pollard should be punished for his disloyalty," said one former officer, "not for the harm he caused to U.S. interests...