Word: scandale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...midst of the political fracas over President Reagan's Supreme Court nominees and the Iran-Contra scandal, a dangerous attack is being mounted on the Constitution's guarantee of free speech and access to information, while much of the national press, The Crimson included, remains silent. At this very moment, two attempts are being made to close offices of the Palestine Liberation Organization with the intention of unconstitutionally silencing the supporters of that organization. This miscarriage of justice must be resisted if Americans wish to maintain their justifiably proud claim to freedom of politicial expression...
When the brown, 690-page congressional report on the Iran-contra fiasco finally thumped onto desks in Washington last week, one of the officials most keenly interested in the scandal vowed not to pick it up. Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh cannot use any testimony that witnesses gave to the House and Senate committees under grants of immunity. Walsh and his staff of 28 lawyers, 20 FBI agents and six IRS investigators must build their own criminal cases against any lawbreakers. Nonetheless, the tightly reasoned, judiciously stated majority report, signed by all of the committees' 15 Democrats as well...
...case for relaxing controls is hard to sustain, as new security breaches come to light almost every week. The Toshiba affair, more than any other, focused the West's attention on the scope of the leakage problem. The scandal broke last March, after the U.S. learned that a subsidiary of the Japanese electronics giant had shipped to the U.S.S.R. advanced machines that have enabled the Soviets to build submarines quiet enough to escape U.S. naval detection...
Mikulic's stature hit a new low last summer when an investigation uncovered Yugoslavia's biggest financial scandal since World War II. Led in part by the country's newly aggressive press, the probe found that Agrokomerc, a giant food-processing firm based in the republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina, had issued up to $500 million in worthless IOUs to 63 Yugoslav banks and other enterprises. The revelations forced the country's Vice President, Hamdija Pozderac, to resign after the Belgrade newspaper Borba and other publications linked him to the scandal. Agrokomerc Chief Executive Fikret Abdic is in jail awaiting trial...
...shrinking spy scandal baffled one high White House official, who asked in frustration, "What's up here?" Sighed Maine's William Cohen, ranking Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee: "We may just never know for sure...