Word: illicited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...preacher from Baton Rouge, La., with a substantial U.S. television audience. Swaggart denied any interest in "stealing" PTL and said the Bakker scandal was a "cancer that needed to be excised from the body of Christ." Swaggart did admit, however, that he had passed along rumors about Bakker's illicit behavior to officials of the Assemblies of God, the Pentecostal denomination in which both are clergy. Swaggart says yet more scandals are brewing. "I believe they will come out. But they won't come from...
...charged with insider trading, as a dozen others were, but with other rule-bending practices that have become commonly tolerated. The case against Jefferies, based partly on tips provided by the chastened Boesky, demonstrated that the insider- trading scandal is leading Government investigators to a wider range of illicit stock schemes...
...Reagan Administration is not the only government struggling to cope with the problem of clandestine and illegal weapons sales to Iran. From Portugal, France and Sweden have come revelations that several Western countries are heavily embroiled in a variety of such illicit dealings. In almost every case, the motivations behind the traffic have been commercial rather than political, and its discovery abroad has led to considerably less domestic tumult than in Washington. Quipped one U.S. official: "The real question is, Who isn't selling arms to Iran...
West Germany was alerted on Feb. 9 to Gretl's illicit actions by members of the national seamen's union. The Bonn government immediately demanded that the ship put in at the nearest port of the twelve-member European Community. Not eager to have its cargo confiscated, Gretl headed back to off-load in Setubal...
...Illicit drug use by teenagers last year was 3% lower than in 1985. The ! number of students using cocaine showed a modest overall decline, though frequency of use -- especially of crack -- has grown. For legal drugs, the numbers are more disturbing. Nearly two-thirds reported prior-month use of alcohol, and 19% admitted to being daily cigarette smokers -- a small drop for the smokers and virtually no change for the drinkers...