Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...committee scheduled another hearing on Champion's nomination for March 17 to get to the bottom of the Souza scandal. Champion was the target, of course, because he alone of the participants in the February 4 meeting was still unconfirmed. But there was a sudden death in Talmadge's family, so the hearing was rescheduled for March...
...Hill to watch the Senate Judiciary Committee grill L. Patrick Gray, Nixon's nominee for FBI director, about his role in the Watergate investigation. Like Champion, Gray was the only official available for questioning, and his nomination was eventually withdrawn. Champion was clearly luckier, for the Souza Medicare fraud scandal has apparently blown over. So he can now turn his attention to simpler problems--like welfare reform...
...speaking to foreigners. The wealthier and more educated ones especially move about with relative freedom and premarital sex is common among them. But even they are far more restricted than their Western counterparts. One well-to-do, college-educated single woman in her twenties told me of the scandal she caused in trying to procure an apartment...
...Communists' turn. They are represented by a husband-wife team of rich dilettantes, whose aim is to turn the widow into a proletarian heroine. Their sheer companionship is helpful, especially since Frau Kusters' son and his pregnant wife flee to Finland to avoid the scandal, while her daughter uses all the sudden notoriety to try to further her tacky career as a cabaret artiste. But the party is not really interested in clearing the Kusters name, just in exploiting it as propaganda. Finally, Mother Kusters goes off with a building janitor, who offers not ideological support but home...
Chavez aides claim that the Teamsters feared they would lose a jurisdictional dispute now pending before the California agricultural labor relations board and thus have to surrender 50,000 workers to Chavez involuntarily. But the real reason for the Teamsters' cave-in seems to be public relations: the scandal-scarred Teamsters are under heavy attack. An investigation of the union's Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas Pension Fund, often accused of funneling money to the Mafia, is still under way at the U.S. Department of Labor. This week, Federal officials will announce a plan forcing all Teamster...