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...Washington Post, now its chief rival on the national scene. The New York paper has recovered somewhat, beating the Post to major Washington scoops about CIA domestic spying and drug experimentation on unwitting civilians. The Post has been giving extravagant display to its newsbeats on the Koreagate scandal???in fact, to any stories with the merest hint of wrongdoing. On balance, the Post probably does a more thorough job of covering Washington's politics and government administration, but the Times still carries more weight on the national scene...
While pushing the cover-up prosecution, Jaworski's busy staff also netted another top Nixon associate in a somewhat peripheral phase of the Watergate scandal???but one that also has serious implications for Nixon. Kalmbach, the President's personal lawyer, pleaded guilty to two charges: 1) violating the Federal Corrupt Practices Act by helping create and run a secret committee in 1970 for which he collected nearly $4 million for congressional candidates but had no treasurer or chairman and failed to file reports as required by law; 2) soliciting and accepting a $100,000 political contribution in 1970 from...
...government's efforts at capital formation. Not long ago, Bangkok carried out a little-publicized roundup of leftist-oriented monks to prevent any Communist infiltration of the clergy. But by and large, in peaceful, prosperous Thailand, the golden mean rules. Bangkok is still rocking from the Sarit scandal???the tough, able late Prime Minister is charged with misappropriating vast government funds?and King Bhumibol has been urged to strip Sarit posthumously of his title of field marshal...
Enemies dragged the name of Clemenceau into the Panama scandals of the '90s. Though falsely accused he lost his seat in parliament, seemed ruined. But another scandal???the Dreyfus case?made him a hero. As editor of L'Aurore he wrote the famed caption "J'Accuse!" above the most potent of many articles by Emile Zola which eventually freed Jewish Captain Alfred Dreyfus from "Devil Island," where an anti-Semite French government had sent him to rot. The fight to free Dreyfus took six of Clemenceau's and Zola's best years. Last week the grateful captain stumped around...
...SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL???The cast includes John Drew, Robert Mantell, Walter Hampden, Francis Wilson, Ethel Barrymore...
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