Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Convicts involved in the Attica revolt should be uncompromisingly punished. An investigation should be made of the Black Panthers and William Kunstler regarding the extent to which they abetted the whole ugly affair...
...only six have come to trial, and four have been acquitted-though the division commander, Major General Samuel Koster, was demoted one star, and his assistant, Brigadier General George Young, was reprimanded. The only man still on trial is Colonel Oran Henderson, who is charged with suppressing the affair instead of informing his superiors-a charge that might have been brought against Medina with better results...
...candidate has been chosen by the Eastern establishment-that is, the Justice Department, the Mafia, Wall Street and the elders of the Church of Christ, Computer. The trouble is that Mulligan's youth image is endangered because his 68-year-old mother-in-law is having an affair with a 70-year-old man. Their attraction must be cooled, because to the young American voter, any suggestion of sex past the age of 30 is obscene...
...only after his twin brother, Roy, an eminent historian, mobilized a protest by a group of internationally renowned writers and scientists, including Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Physicists Andrei Sakharov and Pyotr Kapitsa, and Mstislav Keldysh, president of the Academy of Sciences. Last summer, in an attempt to hush up the embarrassing affair, the KGB (Soviet secret police) promised the Medvedevs that they would "close the case" and asked for assurances that the brothers would not write about what had happened. Roy Medvedev agreed, on the condition that there be no more "psychiatric blackmail...
Severe Action. Ironically, network insiders reported that Drinkwater was saved from being fired by more prominent staffers, who argued ground rules on staging had never been defined. In New York, CBS officials would not comment beyond describing the affair as an "internal matter." But the network clearly intends to avoid further fakery of any kind. A recent memo from CBS News President Richard Salant admonished that "staging, or any false depiction, through editing or any other means, is intolerable." He promised severe disciplinary action against violators...