Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...delayed medical checkup, Richard Nixon quickened the tempo of his Watergate survival strategy with a burst of public appearances. At the same time he curtly cut off cooperation with Special Watergate Prosecutor Leon Jaworski, once more reneging on his previous claims that he wanted "all the facts" about the scandal exposed...
...years on the force, thunders: "I abhor dishonesty among policemen." If he is eager to root out corruption, Rochford has landed the right job; last week he was named Chicago's superintendent of police. He moves in just when the city is in the grip of a police scandal of truly startling proportions, even by its historically gamy standards...
...with all other phases of public life in Chicago, the investigations-and the appointment of Rochford-have political overtones. The 13,800-member police force is closely controlled by Democratic Mayor Richard Daley, whose scandal-ridden machine has run the city since 1955. The prosecutions are being pushed by two politically ambitious Republicans-U.S. Attorney James ("Big Jim") Thompson and Bernard Carey, the state's attorney for Chicago's Cook County...
...still another scandal, after six bodies were found floating in the city's waterways, suspicion focused not on Chicago's gangsters but on Chicago's cops. Some of the victims were thought to be dealers in heroin who had failed to buy off the police with bribe money...
Modest Reforms. As the extortion scandal grew, Conlisk stepped down under pressure last November, becoming chief of traffic. Rochford, his right-hand man, was named acting superintendent until a permanent replacement could be found. The city's police board screened 250 applicants for the job, then passed on three names-including Rochford's -for consideration by the mayor. In an anticlimactic ending, Daley then announced, as many had suspected all along he would, that the job was Rochford...