Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...complexities of the grain market are too confusing to permit quick conclusions on whether the Nixon Administration's wheat deal with the Soviet Union led to improper profits and thus amounts to another scandal from which the Democrats ought to be able to reap campaign benefits. But one facet of the highly complex situation looked like a clear-cut case of conflict of interest. Two high Government officials involved in the negotiations with the Russians quit their Agriculture Department jobs to take top positions with two U.S. exporting firms that had much to gain from the Soviet sales. Last...
...Portland plan specified three criteria for readmission, which are similar to those used in other dioceses: the petitioning Catholic must deem his existing marriage stable and binding; the risk of scandal arising from the return of the petitioner to Communion must be minimal; finally, the petitioner must in "good conscience" believe that his former marriage was invalid. His reasons for this must be of the kind that are unprovable in church tribunals. Such cases would include those where the former spouse is accused of fraudulent intent and is unwilling to talk, or where he was homosexual or impotent and declined...
...POLITICAL atmosphere reeks with the Watergate scandal, "cocktails and bologna sandwiches," ITT-Nixon fumblings, Eagleton disorders, subdued Agnewian imagery, campaign staff bickering, and an obsession with the impact of polls. In 1970, George McGovern began his campaign stressing issues, especially Vietnam; while last July President Nixon called this the most "issue-oriented" campaign of the 20th century. Yet clarity, precision, and in-depth discussion of issues has been notably absent from the campaign...
Focusing on a stock scandal perpetrated by Houston promoter Frank Sharp that proved to involve Gov Preston Smith Speaker of the Texas House Gus Mutscher. Houston mayor Louis Welsh former state attorney general Waggoner Carr and even NASA astronaut James A Lovell Katz cracks the golden egg of the Texas state capitol for a broad look at the kind of "business" that state officials are really doing under that dome...
KATZ DIGRESSES from the Sharp scandal itself to present it as merely one fortuitously discovered incident of a corruption that permeates and is perpetuated by the entire system of state government in Texas. He discusses the House pledge card system through which the Speaker guarantees the allegiance of House members, documents the use of water districts by land developers in cooperation with state officials to swindle tax dollars, and shows the ways in which powerful lobbyists and House leaders compose the legislative calendar without consulting the rest of the House members...