Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fascinating primary season seems to have demonstrated the health of the political system-and produced a new face or two to engage voters' imaginations for the future. Watergate is finally interred. Above all, after 13 consecutive years of assassinations, race riots, youth rebellion, Viet Nam, political scandal, presidential collapse, energy crisis and recession, the nation's mood seems optimistic again. Today's leading scandal-sex on Capitol Hill-seems comparatively harmless. Louis Tucker, executive director of the New York State Bicentennial Commission, believes that "the Bicentennial is acting as a kind of catharsis. It's become...
...When the Hays scandal broke in May, House Speaker Carl Albert gave the job of proposing reforms to a three-man committee headed by Wisconsin's David Obey, 37, a tough-minded and rising Democratic star. The group advocated curbing the authority of the House Administration Committee, which Hays used to dispense favors and build his power until he resigned his chairmanship last week. Under Hays, the committee had the right to increase Congressmen's allowances and even the size of their staffs. To prevent abuses, Obey recommended that such changes be granted only by a vote...
...During the recent election campaigns, the PCI backed a program of much-needed social reforms: new hospitals and schools, more housing, and a crackdown on the wealthy industrialists who habitually evade their income tax. Perhaps most important, the PCI offered an effective alternative to the politics of corruption and scandal that have become the trademark...
Using a strategy all-too-familiar to post-Watergate America, the DC delayed investigation of the Lockheed scandal, in which several top Christian Democrats were implicated, until after the elections. The case of neofascist parliamentarian Sandro Saccuccu, who is awaiting extradition in London on charges of shooting a Communist at a street rally, was also postponed until after the elections--but Saccucci, who was reelected to Parliament, may now be able to obtain immunity from prosecution...
...scandal threatened to touch still others in Washington. At week's end Gardner said that in 1972 or '73 she had stumbled upon Alaska Democratic Senator Mike Gravel making love to Ray on a houseboat owned by former Congressman Kenneth Gray of Illinois, Ray's ex-boss. Gravel denied the accusation. Meanwhile, Ray preened in a strange celebrity status that made her seem a combination of Virginia Hill and Typhoid Mary. She attracted stares and journalists at every stop. But when she showed up at Duke Zeibert's last week, at least...