Word: scandale
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...lanced for the service, which also helped him find employment as a journalist. In an interview last January with British Journalist Phillip Knightley, Philby claimed that his departure was engineered by Britain "because the last thing the British government wanted at that time was me in London, a security scandal and a sensational trial." He even retained the honor he had been awarded in 1946 -- Order of the British Empire -- for two years after fleeing to Moscow, and his collaborator Anthony Blunt remained the Queen's adviser on art for more than a decade after admitting to treason...
Maybe Mrs. Helmsley did it as a public service. After all, her calamity has brought pleasure to millions. The sacrifice of plutocrats on the altar of public scandal is a treasured ritual of the American civil religion. And the Helmsleys were already among the least sympathetic of the wealth celebrities coughed up by the Reagan era. He is a landlord: 50,000 apartments, along with other real estate. She is the self-proclaimed "queen" of his hotel chain, famous for being nasty to the help, and a walking exaggeration of every cliche about the second wife as a social type...
Last fall it was hard not to notice Delaware's Senator Joseph Biden. The garrulous Democrat was in the spotlight as a candidate for President, and after a plagiarism scandal forced his withdrawal, he remained at center stage as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee during the Bork hearings. But since February Joe Biden has been seen neither on TV nor in the Senate. Much of the time he has spent in Washington's Walter Reed Army Medical Center. He checked in on Feb. 12 so doctors could correct an aneurysm near his brain. He returned a month later with...
Norway has no nuclear power stations and prohibits nuclear weapons on its territory in peacetime, but its no-nukes policy has failed to protect it from nuclear scandal. Last week the Norwegian Foreign Ministry confirmed that some 15 tons of the country's heavy water was diverted in 1983 to an unknown destination. Prized for its purity, Norwegian heavy water, or deuterium oxide, is used as a coolant in nuclear reactors and to produce plutonium, an ingredient in nuclear bombs...
Nields recounted the details of the Iran-contra affair and described the numerous transgressions committed by the Reagan Administration in diverting profits from Iranian arms sales to the contras. Several Iran-contra players are currently under indictment for their roles in the scandal...