Word: rice
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long, plodding investigation of Korean lobbying in the U.S. stepped up a notch last week. With much fanfare, the Justice Department released a previously sealed indictment charging Tongsun Park, the onetime Washington rice-and-influence broker, with 36 violations of federal statutes, including conspiracy to bribe Congressmen, mail fraud, illegal campaign gifts, and failure to register as an agent of the South Korean government. Hinting that more indictments might be coming, Attorney General Griffin Bell suggested coyly, "We'll have to see what the harvest will bring...
That attitude may well have induced the committee's potential star witness, Rice Broker Tongsun Park, to surface at a press conference in Seoul last week nine months after he fled from Washington to London to avoid questioning. The Korean Central Intelligence Agency presumably arranged Park's flight from London to Seoul to keep him out of Jaworski's way, and then stage-managed his press conference as well. As one of Park's old Washington cronies observed, "He said not a word in Washington or London. Then he gets to Seoul and holds a press...
...asked, was he so cozy with so many Congressmen? "I was extremely active in social circles," he said. "For me to know prominent politicians or even Cabinet members or people in the White House is nothing unusual. That happens to be my hobby." Did he use his fees from rice deals to give kickbacks to Congressmen? No, no, he said, the money was used to establish schools and new companies in Korea. "Washington is like my second home," said Park, but he would not even think of returning without guarantees against the sort of "gross exaggeration" that he has seen...
...cockpit windows had been cracked by volcanic shrapnel. Though no casualties were reported on the ground, everything within a two-mile radius of Usu was covered with more than a foot of debris, and even Asahikawa, a city 100 miles away, was dusted with a fine coating of ash. Rice, maize and potato crops in the area were destroyed. Tourist hotels shut down as residents of the island began digging out. Before Usu rests again, it could throw out much more debris. Japanese volcanologists report that columns of smoke mixed with steam and smelling heavily of sulfur are still rising...
...computer their mastery of mythology, grammar and history. Nearby classrooms resounded to the ring of Ovid and Livy as the oratorical-minded -swathed in togas-declaimed before judges. Other judges trod carefully past papier-mache Pantheons and temples and an intricate mosaic depicting Medea fleeing to Athens, constructed from rice, grits and glue by a Tennessee contestant...