Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Congressmen hear about fish, corn and hound dogs...
Park Thomson, former secretary to retired House Speaker Carl Albert, to testify for five hours before a closed session of the committee. Clearly, Jaworski was determined to get to the bottom of the scandal, which could implicate scores of present and former Congressmen as well as the South Korean government...
Parrying questions for 50 minutes in his corporate conference room in Seoul, Park said he had returned home "under very tragic circumstances." His mother was extremely ill and could not possibly get better until she "saw my face." Why, he was asked, was he so cozy with so many Congressmen? "I was extremely active in social circles," he said. "For me to know prominent politicians or even Cabinet members or people in the White House is nothing unusual. That happens to be my hobby." Did he use his fees from rice deals to give kickbacks to Congressmen...
...that it could-as any government would-to promote the new man. Begin, for example, dispatched a personal emissary, Shmuel Katz, on a month-long mission to the U.S. in early June. Working closely with the Israeli embassy in Washington, Katz met with National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, Congressmen and journalists, then traveled to New York and Chicago to confer with Jewish lay and religious leaders and more journalists. Says an Israeli diplomat who helped to arrange the trip: "He succeeded in dispelling the image of Begin as a wild...
...declaration of friendship, and extended a come-visit invitation to Miss Lillian (she politely declined). In Washington the Koreagate scandal has cooled Taiwan's lobbying. Exchanges of cultural and economic missions continue. But because of the "Tongsun Park syndrome," says Taiwan's Washington ambassador, James C.H. Shen, Congressmen's trips to Taiwan have stopped. Until the program was halted last year, some 30 members of Congress and nearly 200 of their staffers had made visits to Taiwan...