Word: scandalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...officers by and large are honest. Critics insist that graft is common and condoned, and that the Shah was forced to prosecute Ata'i only because his activities, which included transporting duty-free luxury goods from the Emirate of Dubai aboard navy ships, had become a general scandal...
Americans' unwillingness to vote has long been something of a scandal, and last week's election drew the lowest percentage of the electorate for a nonpresidential election since World War II. An estimated 34% of eligible voters went to the polls, as compared with 36% in the off-year election of 1974 and 43.5% in 1970. Experts attribute the latest decrease to the lowering of the voting age to 18. Because young people move frequently, they often fail to register for the relatively unexciting congressional elections. Aside from this indifference, some nonvoters argue that the major parties often...
Never before had a Cabinet officer from South Africa's ruling National Party been forced to resign in disgrace. Last week the spreading scandal over misuse of a secret multimillion-dollar slush fund within the now disbanded Department of Information claimed its first major victim: Cornelius P. ("Connie") Mulder, 53, powerful Minister of Plural Relations and Nationalist boss of South Africa's huge Transvaal province. Bowing to pressure from his party colleagues, Mulder reluctantly resigned from his euphemistically named Cabinet post, where he administered the apartheid laws that govern the lives of South Africa's 18.5 million blacks. Said Mulder...
While Afrikaners adjusted to the shock of Mulder's resignation, Prime Minister P.W. Botha struggled desperately to prevent the scandal from spreading. Botha publicly dismissed Supreme Court Justice Anton Mostert. The jurist had conducted a one-man probe of the operation of the slush fund during the time that Mulder served as Minister of the Interior and Information under former Prime Minister John Vorster. Mostert's report produced testimony from witnesses that the Information Department had illegally financed the start of a pro-government Johannesburg daily, the Citizen, and allegations of personal abuse of the fund amounting to millions...
...week's end Botha named Interior Minister Alwyn Schlebusch, 61, as Mulder's interim replacement. Amid continuing rumors that other Cabinet ministers might be caught up in the scandal, there was growing speculation that the unsolved murders of a Nationalist candidate and his wife during last year's election campaign were also involved. Robert Smit and his wife Jeanne-Cora were discovered in their home near Johannesburg, fatally wounded by guns and knives. Bloody slogans had been scrawled across the walls of the house, apparently to disguise the killings as the work of terrorists or a religious cult. The Pretoria...