Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...freehanded Korean businessman had fled, the party-giving Oriental beauty was testifying to a federal grand jury, and a bipartisan clutch of Congressmen were nervous about Washington's latest payola scandal...
...years ago, at a time when the Watergate scandal had reduced the Federal Government to near paralysis, TIME decided to explore the subject of leadership in depth. The result was a 38-page special section (July 15, 1974). Included was a portfolio of "200 Faces for the Future": young (45 or under) American leaders who, in the editors' view, had noteworthy civic or social impact on their communities, their institutions or the nation. When the special section appeared, Richard Nixon was still in the White House, Jimmy Carter was still in the statehouse in Atlanta and the corporate bribery...
...Scandal. There was no slackening in the propaganda campaigns against the radical "big-four brigands." An editorial appearing in China's major papers, apparently giving the official version of October's "great purge," said that Mao had warned his wife and her chief allies two years ago against "forming a small faction" that would attempt, in violation of party unity, to seize power for itself. When Mao became critically ill, said the editorial, the radicals' "attacks on the party became more frantic and their attempts to usurp the position of the supreme leaders more hurried." Thus...
Even a hint of sex scandal entered the campaign. The latest gossip has it that Chiang Ch'ing's daughter Li Na was either married to, or having an affair with Wang Hung-wen, the handsome young Shanghai radical who until the purge was the No. 2 man in the Politburo. More significant politically was an antiradical wall poster in Shanghai that showed four mice standing outside a hole shouting: "You can come out now! Neither black nor white cats are around." Explanation: the radicals had attacked discredited former Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing, the onetime...
Psychological Warfare. Peres and his supporters have jumped on the Yadlin scandal as proof of Rabin's poor judgment in making appointments. In the past, Peres and Rabin have openly disagreed over tactics and emphasis in such matters as the amount of military aid that Jerusalem should request from the U.S. (Peres wanted more than Rabin) and the disengagement with Egypt in the Sinai (Peres wanted greater concessions from Egypt in exchange for a pullback of Israeli forces). Following the recent riots in Hebron, in which both Arab civilians and Israeli soldiers were injured, Rabin publicly attacked Peres...