Word: conducting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These sensationalized aspects of the Tower battle are riveting, but they distract from far more universal questions about the conduct of public officials. The reason ethics in Government seems so tiresome is that the goal has become obscured in a legalistic fog of disclosure requirements, recusations and blind trusts. Lost in the mist are commonsense standards for integrity in Government like these...
...Senate cloakroom. But his argument serves as a deft reminder that there are also Senators whose alcoholic and amorous behavior might not stand sustained scrutiny. There is just enough merit to Tower's who-is-fit-to-judge-whom bluster to accentuate the confusion over the proper standards of conduct for public officials...
...question remains: How clean a regime in Washington should Americans demand? It is difficult to extract general rules of conduct from the Tower inferno because so many of the facts remain in dispute. Certainly America cannot afford a Defense Secretary with an untreated drinking problem. The issue is how closely this description fits Tower. There are also legitimate concerns raised by the widespread, but not unequivocally documented, tales of Tower's predatory behavior toward women. If true, the allegations of sexual high jinks seem to reflect a pattern of reckless and perhaps unbalanced behavior that should disqualify Tower for such...
Senior Bradley W. Kertzberg, one of the demonstration's five organizers, said recent editorials about Zionism and Israel's conduct in the Middle East were full of "lies and half-truths about Zionist history. They went beyond the political realm and started to slander the Jewish people...
...Cambridge man was arrested at an Adams House party early Saturday morning for disorderly conduct after allegedly harassing a Harvard student and attempting to steal a keg of beer, witnesses said...