Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...played for a year, but quit when he learned how his own and his teammates' free rides were funded. The athletic department was supplementing gridiron subsidies with government monies for work-study programs, and Cloherty launched a series in the Montana Kaimin, the campus daily, which ended in scandal, indictments, and two convictions...
Watergate's most positive result may well be reform of U.S. campaign laws. Since the scandal began, scores of bills have been filed in Congress to end corrupt election practices. Without mentioning Watergate, President Nixon last week outlined his own recommendations for curbing what he delicately called "campaign abuses recently publicized and of years gone by." The eight-page message read like a list of campaign abuses charged to Nixon's own political associates. The President's main points...
...Kraft's demand for restraint, which would be unexceptionable in most cases, raises its own problem in the very special circumstance of Watergate. This unique scandal is far more than a criminal proceeding. It has involved not powerless defendants but some of the nation's most influential officials. There have been repeated attempts to suppress evidence, minimize the case's importance, deflect guilt and hide behind the shibboleth of national security. These factors at first inhibited the press. Now the urge is to print everything obtainable in the belief that self-censorship would be itself a kind...
Inside the building, Ford, who had been whisked quickly from his automobile into the club's rear entrance, told the Republicans he remains convinced of President Nixon's non-involvement in the Watergate scandal...
FRANCE has not one but two oil scandals. The first goes back to 1971, when an independent oil distributor charged that the multinationals were trying to squeeze him out of business by not selling him supplies. Last week the government handed down indictments against 15 oil-company executives, including top figures at Mobil, Shell, Esso and Total. The decision fuels the other scandal, in which the same companies have been accused by Finance Minister Valery Giscard D'Estaing of playing favorites during the Arab oil crunch. They are charged with supplying longtime independent clients while cutting off some newer...