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Leaks and rumors swirled anew last week as Israel continued to debate allegations that security agents lied, tampered with evidence and suborned witnesses to hide their involvement in the deaths of two captured Palestinian terrorists. Newly appointed Attorney General Yosef Harish began considering proposals for an inquiry into a possible cover-up by the Shin Bet (the Hebrew acronym for Israel's General Security Service), which handles antiterrorism intelligence operations. "There will be no whitewash of the affair," Harish told reporters. Still, few doubted that the Attorney General would come under heavy pressure from the Cabinet of Labor Prime Minister...
...verbiage: 1) to make certain that the favor would go to just one company, Unocal, an oil giant that figured to escape $50 million in taxes by getting credits for interest payments on the $4.4 billion debt it piled up last year fighting off a takeover attempt; 2) to hide that fact behind a nearly impenetrable screen of words...
...special feature of Whitney's, a small bar on Kennedy St. that serves more of a local crowd than students, is a pinball machine called "High Speed." The theme of this game is danger; the rules are to run red lights and hide out from the police as many times as possible...
...public relations fellow who earns praise for Mobil Oil's sponsorship of public television's Masterpiece Theater and mixed notices for Mobil's disputatious ads in newspapers and magazines. He believes in practicing contentiousness on the press. His advice is often shrewd: "If there's something you want to hide, but are required to disclose, put it in a press release . . . Most journalists find it hard to take seriously what you give them willingly." If your boss appears on 60 Minutes, Schmertz says, he should be as wary of "Harry Reasonable" as of "Mike Ambush." He suggests that the scope...
...Zapatista Landscape--The Guerrilla, Rivera's masterpiece of 1915. It has everything in it from a rifle and pistol holster to a sarape, a sombrero and the snow-capped Mexican cordillera. Yet despite all the detail, the figure of % the Zapatista is hard to find; some analogy between cubist hide-and-seek and a real guerrilla's elusiveness got Rivera thinking about camouflage and disappearance...