Word: scandale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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TOKYO--Outgoing Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita and officials of Japan's governing party met yesterday to search for a new leader untouched by scandal and able to restore public trust in the government...
Takeshita, condemned in public opinion polls for his involvement in and handling of a huge stock and bribery scandal, announced earlier yesterday he was resigning "to restore the people's trust in government...
Reforming the system could take a very long time. More immediately, Takeshita is eager just to get the Recruit scandal behind him. For one thing, the Diet's opposition forces are holding hostage the nation's budget, which should have been in place April 1. They refuse to debate it until the L.D.P. agrees to allow Nakasone to testify under oath about his role in the Recruit affair. For another, Takeshita must set a date for elections to the Diet's upper house by Aug. 13, and in the poisonous atmosphere created by Recruit, the L.D.P.'s chances of winning...
...vicious cult of witchcraft and murder is unearthed in Matamoros, Mexico, as police discover the remains of 13 victims, including the body of a missing American student. -- What's behind the Recruit scandal in Japan and why it may topple the government of Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita...
With that statement, Wright raised the stakes of this in-House scandal for the Democrats assembled around him. It is said that Dwight Eisenhower snapped a pencil in half when his embattled vice-presidential nominee, the younger Richard Nixon, came to the part of his Checkers speech about Pat and the cloth coat. Eisenhower knew then that Nixon was not going to go away but would fight to the death to hold on to his nomination. No one heard any No. 2 lead pencils breaking when Wright said, "There are some things worth fighting for." But it is far from...