Word: scandale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drove from his Rumson mansion and arrested him for carrying a semiautomatic rifle. The police said Mulheren, who has been treated for manic depression, seemed intent on killing Boesky and Boesky's former head trader, Michael Davidoff. Mulheren apparently thought they were linking him to the insider-trading scandal...
...report not only avoids details on investments but also leaves out entire sectors of finance. The most notable omission is the independent, secretive and scandal-tainted "Vatican bank," which holds sizable assets on behalf of ecclesiastical organizations in many nations. The Vatican's world-missionary agency also operates on a separate budget...
...rack up some wins in the South to prove he is a viable candidate. But George Bush maintains a commanding lead in the region, and a frustrated Robertson last week resorted to a series of outlandish remarks, including a suggestion that the Bush team had timed the Jimmy Swaggart scandal to embarrass the Robertson campaign. Bob Dole was buoyed by impressive triumphs in South Dakota (55% of the G.O.P. vote) and Minnesota (43%), but his disorganized campaign has still not caught fire in much of the South. His strongest champion in the South remains his wife Elizabeth, who was born...
...Whether he asked Lieut. Colonel Oliver North if the Marine had written the Iran-contra diversion memo, found in North's files, that touched off the Reagan Administration's worst scandal...
...Swaggart scandal began to unfold on Feb. 18, three days before his climactic confession service, when the evangelist and his entourage rushed by private jet to Springfield, Mo., for a secret meeting with church leaders at Assemblies of God headquarters. It was a sorry moment for the denomination, which had seen attendance jump by 23.3% between 1979 and 1985. Adherents now number 2.1 million in the U.S., 16.4 million worldwide. Swaggart has been the group's most electrifying TV preacher and road revivalist, and his ministry has expanded lavishly overseas, providing $10.4 million of the denomination's 1987 mission budget...