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Last week FBI agents visited city hall in an effort to find out the source of the bogus report. Koch, who had publicly denied that the Israelis were involved, admitted Lavie's role. But, said an Israeli official, "there was no disinformation and no anti-Weinberger campaign. It was Mayor Koch who overdid...
Moscow's position was both bogus and brazen. It was the Soviet Union that had upset the balance in the first place by deploying the mobile, triple-warhead SS-20 ballistic missile. The West Europeans urged Washington to redress the imbalance by getting the Soviets to cut back on their SS-20s while NATO evened the scales with some new weapons on its side. Nor did the Soviets quit while they were ahead. Despite declaration of a moratorium on SS-20s, they pushed ahead to complete new missile sites that had previously been under construction...
...week a federal grand jury in New York City charged managers of the two small Wall Street companies, Sentinel Government Securities and Sentinel Financial Instruments, with perpetrating the largest criminal tax fraud in U.S. history. The defendants were alleged to have supplied investors with more than $130 million in bogus income tax deductions for the years 1979 and 1980. The previous record case: last September's indictment of Oil Trader Marc Rich and two of his associates for concealing more than $100 million in taxable income...
...sometimes labored hard at being a hero, or seeming a hero (before his election in 1960, he listened intently to recordings of Winston Churchill's speeches, picking up the grand rhythms of the language), he knew the limitations of everything, including himself. His instruments were sensitive to the bogus. He might even have had some mordant crack to make about that Eternal Flame...
...mixed blood) in separate chambers. Blacks, of course, will still be excluded. Parliament will be dominated by whites through a system of weighted votes that ensures the election of an Afrikaner to the position of authority, giving Afrikaners, who have dominated the country since 1948, a larger, though still bogus, mandate...