Word: deane
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What is Pretoria's "John Dean...
...National Party government of Prime Minister P.W. Botha is sitting nervously atop a scandal that steadily grows worse and worse. Playing the John Dean role, in this South African version of Watergate, is Eschel Rhoodie, 45, the former Secretary of Pretoria's Department of Information. Rhoodie, who is now living in self-imposed exile in Europe and South America, was in charge of a multimillion-dollar slush fund that his department used to secure favorable publicity for South Africa's policies in both the foreign and domestic press. To accomplish this end at home. Rhoodie has charged that...
Some Holworthy residents, however, received phony housing assignments yesterday morning printed on sheets similar to those the Freshman Dean's Office will distribute...
...printouts read "According to our records you have been assigned to the house listed above. Please call the Office of the Dean of the College (495-4969) if you have any questions...
...think they were really dumb," Charles J. Lowenstein '82, said yesterday. He said one resident took the prank seriously and was very upset until he went to the Freshman Dean's Office and discovered it was a hoax...