Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...major report was drawn up by a six-man commission appointed by Army Secretary Martin Hoffmann to investigate last spring's cheating scandal (TIME cover, June 7). Wrote Commission Chairman Frank Borman, the former astronaut, in a letter to Hoffmann accompanying the 91-page study: "We believe that education concerning the honor code has been inadequate and the administration of the honor code has been inconsistent and, at times, corrupt. The cadets did cheat, but were not solely at fault. Their culpability must be viewed against the unrestrained growth of the 'cool-on-honor' subculture...
Good Judgment. What aroused cautious, conservative Japanese voters to overturn two decades of L.D.P. rule, was outrage over the "rokkiido" (Lockheed) scandal, plus concern over inflation (9.7%), pollution and soaring medical, housing and utility costs. Miki's decision to play a reformer's role and expose his own party's involvement in the Lockheed case was not sufficient to save the L.D.P. Confessed Miki, as he watched the votes pour in on television: "I can't help admiring the Japanese people for showing such good judgment...
...million new voters in last week's election showed their weariness with the nation's feuding gerontocrats by dumping superannuated candidates of most parties. With that young constituency in mind, reformers can drive hard bargains for any aid they extend to their damaged, divided and scandal-prone elders...
Bringing him to bay came as a vast relief to the embarrassed Dutch government, which had inexplicably fumbled his arrest three weeks before, allowing the alleged war criminal to escape from his palatial Blaricum estate, and causing a national scandal...
...word of Kim's defection leaked out, five leaders of the House called-for the first time-for a congressional probe of the scandal. Also, in a letter to President Ford, ranking members of the slow-moving House ethics committee asked that the Justice Department share its information with them...