Word: wounds
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...Israel was mincing words. Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin called it a "real disaster, a real wound in Israeli-U.S. relations." Foreign Minister Shimon Peres admitted that Israel had made a "regretful mistake." Declared former Foreign Minister Abba Eban: "This is the most difficult moment in the history of Israel's international relations, especially because the wrongdoing was done here...
...disaster, the wound, the mistake, the wrongdoing turned on the case of Jonathan Jay Pollard, 32, an American naval intelligence analyst, who was given a sentence of life imprisonment last week for spying in Israel's behalf against the U.S. Pollard's wife Anne, 26, was condemned to prison for five years. In Israel this final denouement of the Pollard affair precipitated a painful self-examination of intelligence operations as well as worries about the future of the special relationship between Israel...
...idealistic Zionist whose actions were based on his concern for Israel's security and survival. The prosecution, however, pointed out that Pollard had received some $50,000 for his espionage and, had he remained in the service of the Israelis for an additional nine years, would have wound up with at least...
...flashy Louisiana Pentecostalist who ranks as one of the top TV evangelists in the U.S. In recent years Swaggart has built a surprisingly large and significant following abroad, especially in Latin America. In January he packed the 80,000-seat National Stadium in Santiago, Chile. Last week he wound up a swing through the Central American nations of El Salvador and Costa Rica, and later this year will visit Brazil, Uruguay, Panama and Honduras...
...trading nation as large as the U.S. Many U.S.-based importers and retailers believe that auctions could disrupt their steady supply of foreign goods. But advocates of the idea predict that an active secondary market for so-called quota tickets would quickly develop, so that bidders who wound up with excess quota allowances could sell their tickets to others who come up short...