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помогите, плз, перевести "gaping holes"

Контекст:
Continuing “gaping holes” in Canada's security arrangements are revealed at an inquiry into the 1985 bombing of an Air India flight from Toronto

Ссылка:
http://www.economist.com/world/la/PrinterFriendly.cfm?story_id=9340771

Спасибо.

[IB]

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