Word: rumoring
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...Around late August a rumor began circulating around Washington that a terrible scandal was being talked about by people in the know. Furthermore, my name was mentioned...
While these battles over access are waged, correspondents struggle to fill their notebooks with anything more than rumor or innuendo. They follow a well- trodden path to the contra offices in a sprawling bungalow on the outskirts of Tegucigalpa. The spokesperson is charming but uninformative. On a good day, a journalist might run into Contra Leaders Adolfo Calero or Enrique Bermudez, but they are not always forthcoming...
...week's end it was clear that the government intended not only to clamp down on new demonstrations but sharply limit future political discussion and purge officials who have gone too far in advocating reform. Rumor had it that at least one official had already been removed: Fang Lizhi, a vice president of the University of Science and Technology in Hefei, who has strongly supported demands for more democracy. The biggest loser, however, may be Politburo Member Hu Qili, a leading advocate of political reform, whose position as a likely successor to Hu Yaobang as Communist Party General Secretary seems...
...insurance magnate who was founding chairman of MOCA, has three distinct collections (one corporate, one private and the third, the Eli Broad Family Foundation, specializing in loans to museums) and retains a public relations firm to keep them, and him, as visible as can be. There is a persistent rumor in Los Angeles art circles that Broad is waiting for MOCA's operating funds for the T.C. to run out so that he can take it over as his own museum. Koshalek flatly denies that this is in the cards. "The leadership of this board, let alone the city, will...
...self- professed housewife often finds herself judged by the old rules. In restoring her country's freedoms, for example, she is content to go about her business while Marcos loyalists stir up trouble in the streets and Cabinet ministers speak their minds to the 26 daily newspapers in rumor-mad Manila. The resulting appearance of dissentious sound and fury is, she says, simply a sign of the government's self-confident strength: democracy in action. Others take it for weakness...