Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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FROM the start, the Nixon Administration's handling of the political-espionage scandal in Washington's Watergate complex last June has been amazingly inept. If Watergate had been a childish antic by a few misguided Nixon zealots, as presidential aides insisted, quick and candid disclosure of all the facts would have rendered it a brief summertime sensation. If it was more serious and involved officials close to Nixon, as now seems plain, those implicated should have been exposed and fired. At worst, Nixon's re-election margin might have been less grand. But high Republican and White...
...within a few days, the public has learned of a second ITT scandal--involving that corporation's attempt to give the Central Intelligence Agency $1 million to overthrow the government of Chile--and a $200,000 Nixon campaign gift (subsequently returned) from Robert Vesco, a financier currently indicted in a $224 million securities fraud case. Last week two important developments underscored the Watergate case's importance...
...Still, there are no clear indications of what those reforms will be, or who will carry them out. Pompidou is not expected to announce his new government until the first week in April, when the new Assembly convenes. Caretaker Premier Pierre Messmer, 57, the frosty ex-soldier who replaced scandal-wreathed Jacques Chaban-Delmas last year, is a strong candidate for early retirement, even though Pompidou may keep him on for a few months for the sake of appearances...
...think the real scandal of the present affirmative action guidelines is that the universities of this country have been treated as if they were Southern rural conties. Figures alone have been used to assume discrimination, conscious and unconscious, and universities have been presumed guilty until proven innocent. And innocence has been determined by the willingness to accept goals which in effect are quotas. No university administration has been willing to fight this--they are too dependent on Federal funds and the power is too unequal. But as we see the notion of goals and targets spread far beyond the areas...
Stolen. Laxness infected his whole administration. The relief rolls more than doubled. Thousands of male drug addicts were added to welfare on the doubtful grounds that they could not hold jobs. The Human Resources Administration was shot through with scandal. Huge amounts were stolen or wasted in the poverty program...