Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hunt by Italian police and Interpol. They want to question him about charges that one of his privately owned companies laundered part of a $1.6 million payoff when Lockheed Aircraft Corp. sold 14 C-130 transport planes to Italy's air force in 1971. Just before the scandal broke, Crociani emptied his penthouse in Rome and his two lavish country homes of all personal documents-and vanished...
Unprincipled Man. In The Netherlands, the Justice Ministry has indicated that legal action against Prince Bernhard, who has been accused of taking $1.1 million from Lockheed, is very unlikely. So, under terms of the agreement with the U.S., the three-man committee that is investigating the scandal may not be able to make public any of its findings about the prince. In Japan, opposition parties are branding Premier Takeo Miki a man without principle for having accepted Washington's conditions of confidentiality in receiving information about Lockheed's payoffs...
...first criticism argues that evidence of a president's insanity is privileged information. Undoubtedly its strongest supporters are those who protested, as Woodward and Bernstein were unraveling the Watergate scandal three years ago, that it was improper to ask about a president's criminality...
...wind) attack was yet another tremor in the continuing Lockheed shokku. Prime Minister Takeo Miki has been under heavy fire in the Diet, where his Liberal Democrats hold a steadily shrinking majority, for striking a deal with the U.S. Government that seemed aimed at containing further revelations about the scandal. Opposition parties are particularly angry at two conditions Miki accepted. Information resulting from U.S. investigations of the Lockheed affair will henceforth be passed confidentially to Japanese law agencies, and no names will be revealed publicly unless sufficient evidence is found for indictments...
Most of the time, Washington Post Executive Editor Benjamin C. Bradlee is a lean, tough, profane newsman. He directed his paper's contribution to exposing Watergate, the great political scandal, the constitutional crisis that brought down Richard Nixon. But just now Ben Bradlee is starstruck. He has seen All the President's Men, a new $8.5 million film about Watergate, the Post and Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, the two young reporters whom Bradlee had guided and frequently defended...