Word: fiascoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scandal is the country's biggest since the Lockheed bribery fiasco that forced President Giovanni Leone to resign two years ago. It has already brought almost 100 arrests, and has cast suspicion on the martyred figure of former Prime Minister Aldo Moro. Reason: his right-hand man, Sereno Freato, 52, has been questioned about accumulating $17 million worth of investment properties during four years when he declared only $7,500 in annual taxable income. In addition, the scandal has also given the Communists and other opposition groups ammunition against the five-week-old government of Christian Democratic Prime Minister...
...budgetary blessing or a financial fiasco? Whatever your attitude toward 24-hour automated bank tellers, you should be aware of a recent law which limits your liability in case an unauthorized transfer is made with a lost or stolen card...
MEANWHILE, THE U.S. SEEMS intent on committing a foreign policy error in the Philippines similar to the fiasco in Iran. Right now, Congress has a five-year, $500 million aid agreement with this country in its ninth year of martial law. During the presidential campaign, the State Department has a vested interest in keeping the situation "stable" and, more important, quiet, President Carter (and accordingly, Secretary of State. Edmund Muskie) cannot afford to have another military dictatorship ally fall this week, lest he be open to charges of "softness" from his Republican opponent...
...protesters, who have filled a list with scheduled protests and plan even more, spilling through the streets of New York and into Central Park. If it sounds anything like Chicago in '68, the description is accurate. The New York police are using films from the late Mayor Daley's fiasco for training...
...fiasco entered the ninth inning only last week when Fierra finally turned down the proposal, claiming that not enough information had been seen. Lashman promised to seek administrative and, failing that, judicial redress...