Word: jaworskis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While Park added no major revelations to what has been disclosed over the past 18 months, his air of injured innocence, his flippant responses to questions revealed much about the man. Said committee Counsel Leon Jaworski, who was often irritated by Park's demeanor: "He treats this whole affair as just an ordinary sort of thing." Park practiced, according to a report he wrote on how to win support for Korea in Congress, "invitation diplomacy." He entertained Congressmen in his George Town Club; he arranged junkets for them and their wives to Seoul. "The past records indicate that...
Under questioning by the committee's special counsel, Leon Jaworski of Watergate fame, Park is expected to disclose the names of 31 Congressmen, who he claims took $750,000 in payoffs in return for their support of continued U.S. economic and military aid to South Korea and of his own position as an international rice broker...
...back, the Justice Department has agreed to drop an indictment charging Park with 36 counts of assorted crimes, including bribery, mail fraud and failing to register as an agent of a foreign government. But Park could still risk jail should he commit perjury in his interrogation; and Leon Jaworski, the House Ethics Committee's Special Counsel, is persuaded that that fact will encourage him to tell it like...
...only as political campaign contributions but also as "gifts" to five former Congressmen. At the same time, Park denied paying off all those named on the lists assembled by investigators; in fact, Justice officials believe he may have pocketed some of his own government's money. Jaworski is convinced, however, that Park knows more than he has revealed-and that his new testimony may result in the expulsion of "some" Congressmen...
...After Jaworski is done, Park will go before the Senate's Ethics Committee for more closed-door testimony. Although that is expected to be relatively brief, he is certain to be questioned closely on his claim that he contributed $20,000 to Hubert Humphrey's 1972 presidential campaign, a charge that Humphrey aides have denied. After his Senate session, Park will begin talking in public: first as the star witness at the trial of former California Congressman Richard Hanna, indicted for having accepted more than $100,000 in bribes; then to the House committee in open sessions...