"soon before"?

[Jonathan Lighter]

Agree.

JL

sagehen <sagehen at WESTELCOM.COM> wrote:
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Seymour Hersh in /Chain of Command/ on pp. 355-6 writes:
"....security official said in an interview _soon before_ the transfer of
sovereignty that..." [my emphasis].
This looks & sounds very odd to me; I would expect _shortly before_here.
A. Murie

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