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...things that Israelis like to think they can lean on: their military, and the $1.8 billion they receive annually from the U.S. to buy arms. Both pillars trembled when the Justice Department, in a Cincinnati lawsuit unsealed last week, accused General Electric Co. of conspiring with Israeli General Rami Dotan to defraud Washington of $30 million in U.S. military aid by padding invoices and charging for work that was never done. Last March, Dotan was sentenced to 13 years in prison for his role in the scam, which investigators believe diverted into his bank accounts money earmarked for the purchase...
...Israelis appear surprisingly calm about the possibility of an Iraqi missile attack, it is largely owing to their faith in the air force, the elite military branch. Last week that trust was deeply shaken when air force Brigadier General Rami Dotan, former chief of logistics and Israel's leading expert on aircraft engines, started talking about his role in the biggest bribery scandal ever to rock the defense establishment...
...officials fear the scandal will further strain relations with the U.S. Others have called for air force chief Major General Avihu Bin-Nun's resignation. For now, that seems unlikely, especially given the gulf crisis. In an apologetic letter to his staff last week, Bin-Nun wrote, "I trusted Rami Dotan in exactly the same way that I would trust the aircraft technician from whom I receive a plane before a flight...
...other Palestinians died Sunday of wounds suffered earlier. The army denied responsibility for the death of one of the two, 15-year-old Rami Aklouk of Deir al Balah, in the Gaza Strip...
According to many former merchants, location is the main factor in the decision not to enter the Yale Game market. "We're not doing it [selling t-shirts] because the game's away," says Rami W. El-Mahmoudi '86, of Lowell House. "Something about selling t-shirts in a foreign land...