Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...soup" and featuring recipes for "purée of scoundrel, hush-money puppies and tongue à la Martha." Donnelly was only kidding; there is no such cookbook - not yet. But Howard Mercer, an inventor, and Joe Sugarman, an advertising executive, have created a slick card game called " Watergate Scandal: a game of cover-up and deception for the whole family." The pious instructions read: "To win: nobody in the Watergate Scandal wins. There are just losers. Once the cards are dealt, however, the object of the game is to lie and cheat as much as possible...
With ever-increasing force, the waves of Watergate had been slamming for weeks against the doors of the Oval Office. Neither the repeated denials of presidential involvement in the scandal nor Richard Nixon's all-too-general television address of April 30 had stilled the pounding of multiple congressional hearings, grand jury investigations and relentless press probings. If the President was not to be rendered totally incapable of governing, he would have to grapple more directly with the specific charges against...
...malleable to presidential control. Ironically, Watergate has brought both agencies under closer congressional scrutiny. The likely result will be a curtailment of their activities and of White House control. Balancing the priorities of individual liberties and national security has always posed a problem for free nations, but the Watergate scandal suggests the scale is now out of tilt. Indeed, the entire internal and external security apparatus of the United States seems due for review...
...Edgar Hoover, director from 1924 until his death last year, expanded FBI authority to in vestigate Communists, Ku Klux Klansmen, radical students and other ele ments he considered a threat to national security. The bureau's latest assign ment: getting to the bottom of the so-called Watergate scandal...
Senator Sam Ervin's Watergate committee has promised to expose all the secrets of the scandal, but while the various accusations and defenses reverberated through the top levels of Washington last week, the Ervin committee lumbered along in pursuit of lesser...