Word: scandale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dare performance at a Des Moines debate, Bush appeared to have whipped his wimp image. But the Vice President may need all the moxie he can muster, since he suddenly found himself bushwhacked over an issue he hoped had been forgotten: his role in the Iran-contra scandal. The fusillade of what-did-he-really-know charges came mainly from the press, but it was Alexander Haig who put them in sharp political focus when he asked during the debate, "If you can't answer your friends, what in heaven's name is going to happen next November...
...Caro Quintero's departure. Pavon Reyes, one of the officials indicted last week as an accessory, was convicted by Mexico in 1986 of taking a $261,000 bribe for turning Caro Quintero loose; he was released last May. Ibarra has never been charged with a crime but resigned amid scandal...
Television made Ollie North a celebrity. Journalists had cast him as a heavy in the Iran-contra scandal, but his bravura performance as a witness -- emotional, defiant, patriotic -- led to a national outburst of Olliemania. McCarthy, Agnew and North were quite dissimilar in deeds and in character, but of each it could be said that journalists covering him believed that with time and further acquaintance people would think less of him. That also seems to be the conviction of most journalists who cover Gary Hart...
When first criticized for their reporting of Hart's private life, journalists cited bounden duty to probe the personal character of those who volunteer to be President, since just about anyone can run and so many do. To judge by polls, people believe that the sex scandal should have been reported but that the media overplayed it. Fewer editors today would probably defend, as many at the outset did, the Miami Herald's stakeout of Hart's private residence. Though the public hankers to know the facts and the gossip too, it has made clear its concern for individual privacy...
...forces have shaped his mind, his methods? How $did he rise from Privolnoye to power? TIME $presents a candid biography of the year' s most $remarkable figure. -- For a Soviet wife, she is $uncommonly outspoken, glamorous and $controversial. Raisa is also her husband' s secret $weapon. -- A White House scandal unfolds, a $contrary war continues, a boom goes bust, and a $plague rages on. It was a year that Ronald $Reagan would just as soon forget...