Word: parked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Speaker Tip O'Neill has admitted twice receiving presents at birthday parties given for him at the George Town Club, which Park founded as a place to court the influential. The most prominent Republican Congressman on Park's list was onetime Ohio Representative William Minshall, but, among other Republicans, former Vice President Spiro Agnew had Middle East oil business dealings with Park after he left office in 1973, and former Nixon Aide Bill Timmons received a $60,000 fee from Park for public relations work...
Many on the list will face no penalty. In most cases, the five-year statute of limitations on felonies has expired, and only 14 of the 31 Congressmen named by Park remain members of the House. Still, the scandal may finally force the reluctant House to decide upon effective procedures for punishing unethical conduct in the future...
...part, Park also remains a free man, and he hopes to go back to Korea later this week. He returned to the U.S. only after protracted negotiations that included two personal-and highly persuasive-messages from President Carter to South Korean President Park Chung Hee, and he was granted immunity from prosecution on the 36 counts (mail fraud, bribery, illegal campaign gifts) that were handed down against him last September. Only if he were caught lying in his present testimony could Park be held and tried in the U.S. That alone should be enough to make him tell the truth...
...curators at London's Regent's Park zoo, the deaths were troubling. Between March 1974 and September 1976, 55 owls in the zoo's celebrated collection died. For a while, zookeepers thought that the birds, which usually live to ages of 15 years or more, were simply succumbing to old age. But when younger birds began dying too, sometimes after repeated convulsions, the zoo's chief veterinarian, David Jones, decided it was time for some serious sleuthing...
Before plunging into American assembly, VW did a great deal of thumbsucking. Its decision turned into a two-year touch-and-go process that had promoters for New Stanton and its chief rival for the plant, Brook Park, Ohio, hanging breathlessly by their seat belts. VW ultimately saw itself as having no choice but to assemble cars in the U.S. With the dollar losing value against the West German mark, VW's U.S. prices went up relentlessly. The average price of all Volkswagen models sold in the U.S. climbed almost 14% last year alone. VW, whose famous Beetle...