Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since the news stories broke last December about the CIA'S excesses, Colby estimates that he has spent 80% of his time on the scandal. He already has made 38 appearances on Capitol Hill, and there will be at least nine more to come...
...years Richard Nixon maintained almost total legal silence on his role in the Watergate scandal and a number of related matters. As President, he declined to testify under oath "on constitutional grounds." After he resigned, his phlebitis condition and a long convalescence made his testifying impossible. Last week Nixon's silence finally came to an end. Responding to a request from Watergate Special Prosecutor Henry S. Ruth, Nixon testified under oath before Ruth, several attorneys from Ruth's office, and two of the 20 members of the remaining Watergate grand jury, whose term ends this week. A total...
...wondering whether they will be able to find markets for all the corn and grain from the huge harvests expected this year. Normally, 25% of all U.S. grain is exported to foreign buyers, who pay about $10 billion a year. Now that giant market is being threatened by a scandal involving: 1) bribery and fraud in federally licensed grain-inspection procedures, 2) suspected skimming of grain off export cargoes by the operators of grain elevators, and 3) laxity by the Department of Agriculture in fulfilling its obligation to ensure the quality of U.S. grain shipments...
...scandal is making foreign buyers wary of U.S. grain and with good reason: they have been getting many shipments that are short-weighted, composed partly of inferior-quality and broken grain, or contaminated by dirt or moisture. Last week a delegation of European grain company officials were in Washington to press similar complaints. American farmers and dealers alike are angry and anxious for an end to the problems. "We produce a good, clean product," one Iowa soybean grower told that state's Democratic Senator Richard Clark. "I'll be damned if we're going to let petty...
...expects the scandal to stop there. Operators of grain elevators are suspected of holding back some grain destined for export, selling it to domestic buyers, and covering the shortages by dumping lower grades, broken kernels or rye into the grain shipments bound for foreigners...