Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While sentences of up to 25 years could have been given by Sirica, the terms of 2% to eight years were the stiffest yet accorded anyone who participated in the scandal, except for the actual Watergate burglars. The sentences preclude any parole before the 2½ years are served, although all four will have the right to seek a reduction in sentence. Such motions by some of the confessed conspirators who testified against the four, including John Dean, Jeb Stuart Magruder and Herbert Kalmbach, led to their early release by Sirica. But he is not expected to feel similar sympathy...
...generally pinning the tail of a doomed career on the donkey (Rosenfeld). By immediately dropping all work on transfer factor, a controversial substance postulated in the 1950's for transfering immunity against foreign substances from one animal to another, Dressler and Potter might successfully sever themselves from the scandal...
...sweeping copyright restrictions; vague and unwritten contempt-of-court rules; and the principle of "confidence," which prohibits publication of industrial secrets and other private information. Those legal weapons are seldom put into action. Their mere existence serves to discourage publication of sensitive material. Editors note wryly that a Watergate scandal might go undetected in Britain because the press there would be prevented from pursuing the story...
...revealed that the British army had tortured suspects there. Evans also ignored a 1967 government warning and published the memoirs of Soviet Counterspy Kim Philby. For the past two years, the paper has fought a court order banning its ten-year-old investigation of the thalidomide scandal...
...formidable European power. Granada is sporadically allied with England, but by 1865 the two countries nearly go to war, the author roguishly reports. Why? Because the poet Swinburne, who in real life had curious difficulties with the opposite sex, is killed while adventuring in the royal seraglio. The scandal is smoothed over, however, partly because of the good feeling left by the fervently pro-Moorish writings of Lord Byron, who does not die at Missolonghi in 1824, according to Guedalla, but lives on in Granada until...