Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...matter: the allocation of some $50,-000 in Nixon campaign cash to a Maryland Republican group holding a dinner for Vice President Spiro Agnew. Stans said this money was given in cash so it could be mingled with the receipts from the dinner and make it appear that the affair was more successful than...
Even more significant, perhaps, is the Soviet treatment of Watergate; it has received only brief mentions in Pravda and Izvestia. Both in Moscow and in Eastern Europe, party cadres have portrayed the affair as a conspiracy by American "reactionaries" to sabotage Nixon's rapprochement with the Soviet Union. One lecturer claimed there was a parallel with John Kennedy, who, he said, was assassinated because he intended to improve relations with the Soviet Union...
...WATERGATE. It is not our affair. I would regard it as indecent for me to discuss it here or there...
Steiner's confession was the latest, and most startling, in a series of revelations about a political scandal that West Germans have dubbed Watergate am Rhine. Although substantially different from the scandal enveloping the White House, the Steiner affair involves not just bribery but cover-up attempts and even espionage. It could cause considerable embarrassment-or worse-for Brandt and his coalition government...
...scandal builds as West Germany's press features it on Page One every day. As with Washington's Watergate, newspapers and magazines frantically scramble to dig up new clues with which to scoop each other. Brandt's dispirited C.D.U. opponents have enthusiastically embraced the Steiner affair as a means of discrediting the Chancellor. They have demanded that a Bundestag special investigatory committee, established last week, find out whether Brandt knew about the bribes and whether the internal security force deliberately failed to inform the C.D.U. that Steiner was giving information about the party to East Germany...