Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exported South Korean corruption currently under way in Washington. The White House cover-up to protect its guilty is still fresh in everyone's memory. Yet here is the Legislative Branch displaying, at the very least, a marked lack of enthusiasm to get to the bottom of a scandal that could badly tarnish Congress...
...Revelations. So far the scandal has been focused on cash gifts to U.S. politicians who might have clout in decisions involving aid to the Park Chung Hee regime in South Korea. New revelations continue to reinforce the impression that, as one congressional leader admitted, "there's a lot of Korean money around, and a lot of guys are involved." Among the main figures in the federal probes of Korean influence peddling: former Representative Richard Hanna of California, a silent partner in an import-export business run by Tongsun Park, a Washington-based Korean businessman with a yen for winning...
...Equity/Orion has also earned money for Analyst Dirks. He faces a Securities and Exchange Commission hearing on charges, which he denies, that he failed to tell the SEC or the public about the fraud before he informed big stockholders. But he co-authored a book, The Great Wall Street Scandal, that has sold 25,000 copies and is being made into a movie...
...scandal involving money gifts to U.S. Congressmen by South Korean Businessman Tongsun Park has claimed a casualty: California Democrat John J. McFall. As the current House majority whip, McFall, 58, was a long shot to become majority leader in January. But earlier this month he admitted a charge that an aide had denied before Election Day-namely, that he had received $3,000 from Park in $100 bills in 1974. McFall said that the gift was unsolicited and that he had put it into his congressional office account to buy supplies. Said he: "I don't know what...
Enlightened Peace. There were other ceremonies in honor of the event across Japan, but none were without political shadows. Socialist leaders boycotted the Tokyo ceremonies to protest the continuing Lockheed scandal; so did the Japanese Communists, who oppose the "Emperor system" itself. More than 30,000 police were on duty in Tokyo alone to control isolated leftist demonstrators, some of whom denounced Hirohito as a "war criminal...