Word: scandale
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Marine spy scandal has largely fizzled away in spasms of dropped charges and repudiated testimony. But last week the Marines began the court martial of Sergeant Clayton Lonetree for espionage and disclosure to the Soviets of the identities of U.S. agents, while he served as a guard at the U.S. embassy in Moscow. Though Lonetree could be sentenced to life in prison, his actual crime, says Defense Attorney William Kunstler, was merely to have fallen in love with Violetta Seina, a Soviet translator at the embassy...
...many of Ronald Reagan's supporters, the Iran-contra scandal is effectively over. By taking responsibility for the Iran-contra diversion, John Poindexter helped save the President, and Oliver North's star performance blurred the moral issues involved. Now some are calling for a conclusive gesture that they hope will close the book on Iranscam: a presidential pardon of Poindexter and North...
...incident could hardly have come at a more embarrassing time for Japan. Tokyo has been on the defensive for a month because of revelations that a subsidiary of Toshiba sold the Soviets high-tech equipment for the manufacture of submarine propellers. The uncovering of a second spy scandal will not make matters any better. Said a Japanese government official: "This is just the thing we need to make the Yanks hopping mad again...
Despite the many hovering suspicions and accusations, none of the major organizations, including the renovated PTL, are currently caught in any scandal. But TIME's examination revealed a continuing pattern. In case after case, the basic management problem that gave birth to the PTL scandal was glaringly evident in other evangelical organizations: a lack of effective accountability...
...controversy in the field of televangelism is being stirred by six Protestant conglomerates of varying wealth and influence. The gaudiest is scandal-tarred PTL: proceeds from all operations in 1986 came to $129 million. PTL is currently run by Fundamentalist Jerry Falwell, 53, who also telecasts weekly services from his own 22,000-member Baptist church in Lynchburg, Va., and operates Liberty University, a 7,500-student institution, and a 1.5 million-subscriber cable system, the Liberty Broadcasting Network. Annual proceeds from Falwell's ministry amount to about $84 million. In Baton Rouge, La., Pentecostal Jimmy Swaggart...