Word: howe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Still, Howe kept his counsel, though his poll ratings dropped steadily. Mormon Church leaders issued a statement regretting the "embarassment" caused the church by the whole incident. And the rumors started flowing...
...story said that Howe had been called home from a mission and excommunicated from the Mormon Church because he had been playing around with a woman in violation of the church's strict rules about missionary behavior. Howe's secretary in his Salt Lake congressional office said Monday that he was in fact excommunicated "a long time ago," but termed the idea that he had been called back from a mission "ridiculous." She refused to detail Howe's offense, but emphasized that he has since been reinstated in the church and holds several church offices...
Another report suggested that Elizabeth Ray named Howe in her revelations of congressional improprieties. Most people who heard that rumor just laughed and referred to Howe's statement several days before his arrest that Utahns need not worry about their congressional delegation as regards the Washington sex scandals. "An elected official's public and private standards should be equally high," Howe had told his constituency reassuringly...
...Howe consistently refused to respond to the rumors, or anything else connected with the case. He told the electorate that he did not consider it appropriate to comment before the trial, but promised to tell his story in court...
After the trial, Howe's attorney explained that in Utah a defendant is entitled to an automatic appeal to District Court and a trial with an eight-man jury. The attorney said Howe could not have received a fair trial in City Court and hence decided to wait until District Court to present his case...