Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...federal crimes he committed or may have committed from January 20, 1969 to August 9, 1974. Ford's new press secretary, J.F. ter Horst, quits in protest. Nixon says he is grateful and regrets any mistakes he might have made while trying in good conscience to unravel the Watergate scandal...
...Washington, a federal judge agrees to delay by one day--until October 2--the sentencing of California lieutenant governor Ed Reinecke. Reinecke was convicted in July of lying to the Senate Judiciary Committee during its investigation of the ITT-Republican National Convention scandal. The California constitution prohibits convicted felons from holding elective office, but Reinecke insists he is not convicted until he is sentenced. He is still lieutenant governor...
...bloc votes of teachers, ranchers and labor that are traditionally a determining factor in Oklahoma elections, and spurned all contributions from groups and organizations. Said he: "I just want to be indebted to the individual voters." Boren's reformist rhetoric clearly appealed to Oklahoma voters, weary of scandal not only in Washington but also in Oklahoma City, where incumbent Governor David Hall (who was eliminated in the primary) faces probable indictment by a federal grand jury investigating kickbacks in the awarding of state contracts...
...contract with any elected or appointed official. The public's right to know cannot be abridged-but it can be given up, if that's the way people want it. If the Watergate investigation is not allowed to continue to a final conclusion of complete disclosure, the scandal and its divisiveness will remain with us as long as we live...
...driving Bernard round the bend. Amis is also clearly at work on a mean microcosm for the sunset of Little England. Bernard, it appears, had to retire from his regiment 35 years ago after a homosexual episode with-yes-Shorty. What bothers Marigold about Shorty, however, is not this scandal, but the fact that although he contributes much of the money and housework and good sense that keep Tuppenny-hapenny Cottage shuffling along, he is not upper class...