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...Without further evidence, the charge stands largely as rumor. The money itself, if the Vatican ever held it, may long since have been returned to Utashas who fled to Spain and Argentina after the regime's collapse. But while those rumors persisted, the intelligence source speculated they were a "smokescreen to cover the fact that the treasure remains in its original repository." Search warrant, anyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Vatican Pipeline | 7/22/1997 | See Source »

...merger was just used as a smokescreen, probably had very little to do with it," said Madras

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Is Suing Harvard Hospitals | 8/9/1996 | See Source »

...abortion was "necessary to save the life of a mother whose life was in danger by a disorder, illness or injury, and if no other medical procedure would save her life." Therefore, the reason Clinton gave for vetoing the bill was nothing more than a smokescreen designed to mislead the American public...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clinton Partial-Birth Veto Was Callous | 5/17/1996 | See Source »

...crave still more detail on the current tobacco wars may want to dip into The Cigarette Papers (University of California Press; 539 pages; $29.95), a new study of the Brown & Williamson documents that were leaked to antismoking activist Stanton Glantz. Next month will also see the publication of Smokescreen: The Truth Behind the Tobacco Industry Cover-Up (Addison-Wesley; 288 pages; $22) by New York Times reporter Philip J. Hilts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: A LONG WAY, BABY | 4/29/1996 | See Source »

...have a very well-educated electorate. All the question were in the newspapers," he said. "I think the court is going to find this thing is just a smokescreen that some people are trying to raise...

Author: By Jeffrey N. Gell, | Title: Judge's Order Could Stall End of Rent Control | 11/30/1994 | See Source »

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