Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...arrest provided the first lead in an unfolding scandal that has already embarrassed the regime of President Nguyen Van Thieu. Mrs. Quy, 26, turned out to be a very well connected young woman. She is the daughter of a senior civil servant who works for South Viet Nam's Senate chairman, and is the girl friend of an army major. She lived in a house owned by Vo Van Mau, a deputy in the National Assembly, who is loyal to Thieu's regime. When police searched another of Mau's properties, they found vials that bore traces...
...this regime? The rulers or the Communists?" The fact that some of Thieu's supporters are implicated in the heroin trade does not mean that the government either condones or encourages the illegal trafficking. Nonetheless, the paper pointed out that if Thieu failed to cope with the heroin scandal, it would be a major defeat for his regime. There is also considerable speculation that Hanoi may be facilitating the flow of cheap heroin into South Viet Nam as a means of demoralizing American forces while picking up considerable foreign exchange. With the exception of a few teenage "cowboys...
...heroin scandal only heightens already tense relations between Washington and Saigon. After the mauling of ARVN troops in Laos, many South Vietnamese are blaming the U.S. for sending in their troops to do an American job. "At a time when relations between the two countries have sunk to an all-time low," reports TIME Saigon Bureau Chief Jonathan Larsen, "the heroin scandal ticks away like a time bomb in the corner." Since politicking is already beginning for next October's presidential elections, the heroin smuggling will clearly be a major campaign issue...
...third of the way through her new book, a man whose career has been ruined by a homosexual scandal tells Gilles, the hero: "I've never lost anything I've given. It's what you steal from people that you pay dearly for, my dear boy, remember that." Gilles remembers it all right, but he is never able to act on it. As Sagan's most complete male character to date, Gilles is a sexy, glamorous journalist who is irretrievably light-fingered with other people's emotions and their trust. At 35, Gilles suddenly falls...
Married. Christine Keeler, 28, party girl who rose to notoriety in Britain's 1963 Profumo sex scandal; and Anthony Platt, 31, a metal manufacturing company director; she for the second time; in London...