Word: scandale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have a sour opinion of politics and the ability of government to have relevancy to people's lives. Voter participation in this country is abysmal, and young people, sadly, are the most negligent. Having been raised in an era dominated by Vietnam, Watergate, Jimmy Carter and the Iran contra-scandal, this is hardly surprising...
...show on the Fox network, and Unsolved Mysteries, which joined NBC's schedule this month, solicit viewer help each week in tracking down fugitives. The syndicated magazine show A Current Affair, drawing good ratings on 125 stations, goes for the gut each night with stories on crime and celebrity scandal. Typical subjects on Fox's The Reporters, a tabloid version of 60 Minutes, range from a grandmother who tracked down the alleged killer of her daughter to racist youths known as skinheads, in a report titled "Shaved and Dangerous...
...bank accounts and then used it to buy four Manhattan buildings. The indictment accused Marcos of having defrauded U.S. lenders of more than $165 million that was borrowed to finance the properties. Co-defendants include Adnan Khashoggi, the Saudi Arabian financier, arms dealer and middleman in the Iran-contra scandal, who allegedly posed as the owner of the properties to protect the Marcos interests. "This case amounted to the Marcoses and their co-defendants using their position of trust to turn the Philippines' treasury into their own treasury," said James Fox, head of the FBI office in New York City...
Influence peddling was to have been curbed by the series of campaign laws that Congress passed in 1974 in the wake of the Watergate scandal. Designed to keep fat cats at bay, the legislation permits individual donors to give a maximum of $1,000 to any one candidate and gifts to multiple candidates in federal races that can total no more than $25,000 a year. Companies are not allowed to contribute directly to campaigns, but they, along with labor unions and other organizations, can set up political-action committees that solicit donations from employees or members and give...
Nearly two years ago, former Senator Howard Baker replaced Donald Regan as Chief of Staff to restore some order to the chaos that prevailed in the White House during the Iran-contra scandal. Last year, Frank Carlucci stepped in as Secretary of Defense and immediately began to attack the bloated military budget that his predecessor, Caspar Weinberger, had largely ignored...