Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last month Zumwalt told a House subcommittee that the CDC's work on Agent Orange had been "a fraud." He singled out Houk for having "made it his mission to manipulate and prevent the true facts from being determined." New York Congressman Ted Weiss, chairman of the panel, charged in an interview that the CDC appeared to have "rigged" its investigation to support its view that a large study of exposed veterans was not feasible...
...phone at the presidential house on Arlegui Street began ringing at 5 a.m. despite a long-standing order that the resident not be awakened except in the event of another coup attempt. For Corazon Aquino, the news that Imelda Marcos had just been acquitted of fraud and racketeering charges in a New York court must have been nearly as distressing. The President's office reacted by tersely reaffirming Aquino's decision "not to allow the return of Mrs. Marcos at the present time." But across the Pacific, a vindicated Marcos told reporters, "I think I should be able to come...
...enemies of the NEA. It allows them to say, 'See, these arts groups don't even need it.' The central point is that this system works. By and large, the money goes to the right places, and after two decades there hasn't been a hint of fraud or scandal. What other Government program can say that...
...that would make such abortions nearly impossible to obtain. Says the National Right to Life Committee's spokeswoman, Susan Smith: "We do everything we can to eliminate abortions and to prevent funding for rape and incest, but where it is inevitable we lobby for tight reporting requirements to prevent fraud." The new tactic was explained at the National Right to Life Committee convention in Sacramento last month by Scott Fischbach, the group's field coordinator: Laws that ban some abortions, he said, "can lead up to the point of stopping them...
...Castaneda to offer sympathies and sent a letter to the liberal daily La Jornada promising to pursue the culprits. But at the same time, an editorial in the government newspaper El Nacional suggested that Castaneda, an ally of Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, who ran a close second to Salinas in the fraud-tainted 1988 presidential race, had caused the threat against himself by consorting with the opposition...