Word: scandalizer
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...APPOINTED. PHUMZILE MLAMBO-NGCUKA, 49, Deputy President of South Africa; by President Thabo Mbeki; in Johannesburg. The former Minerals and Energy Minister, Mlambo-Ngcuka succeeds Jacob Zuma, who was dismissed earlier this month amid a corruption scandal involving his financial advisor. As a top government official, Mlambo-Ngcuka, an anti-apartheid activist, promoted black ownership in the white-dominated mining industry. She now assumes the highest political office ever held by a woman in South Africa...
...order to turn popular opinion against her. The Senate is investigating allegations that Arroyo's husband, son and brother-in-law were involved in an illegal gambling racket?allegations that they have denied. And the House of Representatives has started hearings about the tape. There might well be another scandal or two along the way, made public at what Arroyo's enemies deem a vulnerable moment for her. Then, her opponents hope (and the palace fears), indignation will be whipped up through protests, aided by leftist groups and possibly the Roman Catholic Church, to start a People Power movement similar...
...poorest of the Johnson offspring is still worth at least $23 million. The elder Johnson had informed them in a long succession of previous wills that he would not leave them anything more. One reason, says Barbara, is that the old man was offended by their penchant for scandal. For example, there was J. Seward Jr.'s messy 1965 divorce, before which his wife had shot a private detective sent to monitor her extramarital trysts, not to mention the mishaps of Daughter Mary Lea, who once charged that her second husband had a homosexual affair with their chauffeur and plotted...
Imagine a financial scandal that forces the resignation of Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker along with those of the heads of Citibank, Bank of America, Manufacturers Hanover Trust, Chase Manhattan and the First National Bank of Chicago. Such a massacre of top moneymen might seem farfetched in the U.S., but something very much like it is now going on in Israel...
...terrorism. In 1948 Israel assassinated Count [Folke] Bernadotte, a Swedish citizen authorized by the U.N. to help reach a peaceful solution in Palestine. Israel committed a hijacking in 1954, seizing a Syrian civilian plane. Also in 1954 Israel engaged in subversive acts in Egypt, in the so-called Lavon scandal. [A reference to Israeli attacks on Western targets in Egypt. The strikes were made to appear as Egyptian terrorism in order to sour Egyptian-Western relations during sensitive negotiations on the withdrawal of British troops from the Suez Canal.] In 1973 Israel shot down a Libyan Boeing 727, causing...