Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...OTHER DISCUSSIONS, Vance has urged understanding and sympathy for the South Korean government as it attempts to weather the recent bribery scandal involving American congressmen. His reasoning is based on the assumption that South Korean survival depends entirely upon the United States. Even if the assumption were true, it hardly sanctions attempts by a foreign government to undermine American political institutions. Vance has also expressed confidence in the ability of American business in South Africa to bring about gradual changes in that country's apartheid policies, presumably because investment is rarely secure during a revolution. If Vance's stated position...
...last week poured out details of his undercover adventures to FBI agents at a secret location near Washington. To the astonishment of U.S. officials, Kim had defected rather than obey Seoul's order to return home and thus limit further exposure of the Koreagate scandal (TIME, Nov. 29). Fearing possible imprisonment and torture, perhaps even death, Kim sought asylum in exchange for supplying information and documents that the Justice Department had been seeking for more than a year. In addition, TIME learned, he may have turned over the codes used by Korean diplomats and KCIA agents...
Until Kim's defection, the FBI probe of the scandal was virtually stalled. Businessman Tongsun Park, who entertained lavishly in Washington and doled out KCIA bribe money to a score of Congressmen, had fled the country to avoid being called before a federal grand jury. Comely Suzi Thomson, who regularly gave intimate parties at which Kim and other KCIA agents cemented relationships with influential Americans, had been a balky witness...
Layne is beginning his second season at 135th St. and Broadway after starring at CCNY in the late '40's. In 1950, City was the collegiate kingpin, winning both the NCAA and the NIT crowns. But Layne and his teammates were later implicated in a major point-shaving scandal. The subsequent investigation sent shock waves through college basketball, and Layne eventually pleaded guilty to the charges...
...Esserman as Gertie Cummings read every line as though she were doing an opera without music. Her laugh haunted me through three nights of horrifying dreams. Richard Rosomoff's nut-colored Ali Hakim was very, very funny. It's hard to figure why the Hakim song, "It's a Scandal, It's an Outrage...