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...investigation of South Korea's attempts to curry favor in the U.S. by bribing Congressmen and other officials. Not surprisingly, the three days of hearings further depressed relations between the U.S. and South Korea, which were already at an all-time low. Committee Special Counsel Leon Jaworski expressed the mood on Capitol Hill in his opening statement before the committee. The regime of President Park Chung Hee, he said, had "no right to cover up and obstruct our investigation," and he asked Congress to pass a resolution demanding that South Korea give its "full and unlimited cooperation" in providing...
...While Jaworski was talking tough in Washington, the Korean government was stonewalling a visiting team of U.S. law enforcement officials in Seoul. Assistant Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti and two associates sought a way to question Tongsun Park, Korea's Washington host with the most, who fled the U.S. before a federal grand jury indicted him on 36 violations of federal statutes, including bribery and fraud. After almost 30 hours of wrangling, during which the Koreans insisted they alone should control the interrogation of Park, the U.S. delegation returned home exhausted, frustrated and emptyhanded...
...higher rates, Lo-Vaca terminated its contract and filed suit for payment. During the 30 months that the case was being decided, the town continued to get gas without paying for it. Last June the court ordered it to pay up. Insisted Lo-Vaca Attorney Joseph Jaworski (son of Leon, of Watergate and now Koreagate fame): "It's time to stop this legal circus. Other customers of Lo-Vaca want to know why they should have to pay full price for gas and Crystal City doesn...
...business lobby's most persuasive efforts to date was a letter to Congress from Jaworski, who serves as counsel to the Business Roundtable, that strongly denounced the ACP. He said the proposed agency had a great potential for political abuse that "could be easily turned to the advantage of those who controlled it." Jaworski warned that the agency has "practically limitless statutory authority." His letter reached congressional committee members considering the legislation after the hearings had close and just before their vote...
...take over the Korean bribery inquiries in the House, Nader said. "It's intellectually shoddy, if not disgraceful to his presumed stature in the legal profession to let the business people use his reputation without exposing him to cross-examination. He got the benefit without being there to testify." Jaworski refused to say wh the Business Roundtable paid him to write the letter...