Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...accounts of widespread abuses in the Department of Information, an agency formerly controlled by one of South Africa's most powerful politicians, Supreme Court Justice Anton Mostert detailed alleged "improper application of taxpayers' money running into millions." Johannesburg's antigovernment Rand Daily Mail has dubbed the affair South Africa's "Watergate." Whether or not that proves to be the case, the judge's disclosures have shaken the six-week-old regime of Prune Minister Pieter W. Botha and could wreck the career of Minister of Plural Relations Cornelius P. Mulder, 53, who had been considered...
...voters and asking them to consider why Bellotti has shown such signs of hesitancy to investigate the case. Bellotti says that he cannot investigate the case of a former client, yet refuses to appoint a special prosecutor. In the meantime, the blue ribbon commission formed to investigate the affair crawls along at a snail's pace and the statute of limitations harbors more and more potential white-collar criminals...
Bellotti, despite the debits of the PCM-MBM affair, has, in turn, some considerable credits. His effort in consumer protection have helped thousands throughout Massachusetts. Bellotti indicted members of a huge arson ring and 26 politically connected corporations and individuals for stealing state vocational education funds. He led 46 states in obtaining a $40 million settlement against General Motors for switching engines on unsuspecting buyers...
...Blair House negotiations are as remarkable in their way as the Camp David summit that preceded them. Jimmy Carter has turned those negotiations into a very personal affair, re-establishing the kind of neighborhood Government that used to exist around Lafayette Park more than a century ago. "We feel it," said one of the participants. "The President is just at arm's length...
Gradually, this vision moved beyond the personal and rippled out toward the cosmic. His affection for a young Indian led to a fascination with the country and to two long stays on the subcontinent. An affair with an Egyptian tram conductor taught him something else about the tenuous meetings of East and West. He got it all down in A Passage to India (1924), an unquestioned masterpiece. The novel's satiric anti-colonialism riled many; British civil servants sailing out to India threw the book overboard. Some of Forster's acid observations on the Raj were effectively challenged...