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Curious among the many curiosities in this entertaining work: the World War II coinage snafu gets only two and a half pages.
And there were a number of outfits —companies, battalions, and at least one regiment—that claimed snafu was coined solely in-house, to the point that the division newspaper once actually tried to authenticate the origin, precipitating a near riot.
According to Wouk's footnote, as quoted by Mr. Horowitz, in modern Hebrew balagan has come to mean mess, foul-up, snafu, fiasco.
While the pundits simultaneously applauded Freeh's integrity as a prosecutor, judge, and now FBI director, they insinuated that he had tilted against Reno to shore up his reputation with Republicans on Capitol Hill, who still resent him for his handling of Filegate, Ruby Ridge, and the FBI crime-lab snafu (Shribman; Eleanor Clift, The McLaughlin Group ; Mara Liasson, Washington Week in Review ; Mark Shields, NewsHour ).
Just getting the snafu story out there will make both the paper and its readers more aware of what needs to be done to avoid this sort of mistake in the future.