Word: jaworskis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jaworski is the catalyst, but he faces some stone walls...
Becalmed for much of the summer, the Koreagate investigation suddenly lurched forward last week. Former Watergate Prosecutor Leon Jaworski, 71, who was appointed counsel to the House ethics committee in July, held his first meeting with the panel and declared bluntly, "I advise those who may believe that the investigation will blow over or prove fruitless to take a closer look." Then, threatening a contempt citation, he got close-mouthed Girl-About-Town Suzi...
Park Thomson, former secretary to retired House Speaker Carl Albert, to testify for five hours before a closed session of the committee. Clearly, Jaworski was determined to get to the bottom of the scandal, which could implicate scores of present and former Congressmen as well as the South Korean government...
...given some Congressmen up to $10,000 each. The ethics committee, headed by Georgia's John J. Flynt Jr., has been looking into Koreagate for almost ten months without noticeable progress. Further tarnishing the House's image, the committee's counsel, Philip Lacovara, 33, who was Jaworski's Watergate assistant, quit two weeks ago, claiming that Flynt was not fully cooperating...
Demanding "complete freedom and power of subpoena," Jaworski figures that it will take six months or longer to complete the investigation. What if the notoriously clubby House resists his investigation? Says Jaworski: "The American people will hear...