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An investigation by Erik Schechter
ERIK SCHECHTER: Democracy and the rubber stamp commandos
Thanks to the vigilance of the IDF censor, the enemy will never know about the faulty flux capacitor in the new Merkava IV tank. A triangular stamp mark, care of a military staffer stationed in an air-conditioned Jerusalem office, banned the Jerusalem Post story about the mysterious piece of machinery that causes tank engines to stall "for a crucial 30.3 parsecs."
DAN IZENBERG Moshe-gate
Someone will have to pay for the wiretapping charges leveled by the attorney-general. The question is who.
EDITORIAL: On censorship
"Secrecy," wrote Daniel Patrick Moynihan, "is hugely inefficient... The best way to ensure that secrecy is respected - and that the most important secrets remain secret - is for secrecy to be returned to its limited, but necessary, role."
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