Word: scandalizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since Washington's flamboyant Mayor Marion Barry was elected in 1978, municipal scandal has been as much a perennial in the nation's capital as cherry blossoms. Barry's ex-wife, two deputy mayors and a host of other officials have been found guilty of crimes from diversion of federal funds to fraud. Two weeks ago, as U.S. Attorney Joseph diGenova wound up a 17-month undercover probe into the awarding of city contracts, a subpoena was served on the mayor ordering him to hand over two pairs of alligator shoes supposedly given to him by a contractor. Investigators also...
...Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Peres, who received particular criticism for mishandling the case as Prime Minister in 1985 when Pollard was arrested, stated, "I have nothing to apologize for." U.S. Ambassador Thomas Pickering quickly made clear that Washington expects those involved in the spy scandal to be punished...
Perhaps by now there is a consensus that Gary Hart brought himself down by his willful behavior. But at the outset of the scandal, a large part of the public was ready to blame the press for invading his privacy, and many still do. Questions about the role the press played continue to echo among journalists...
...friend, it angered Columnist A.M. Rosenthal, until recently the top editor of the New York Times. He indignantly wrote, "I did not become a newspaperman to hide outside a politician's house trying to find out whether he was in bed with somebody." When it comes to scandal, the New York Times is up above the world so high. Its readers must have been puzzled to read that Hart's reputation as a womanizer was well known to those who get their news elsewhere. But there is a touch of self-righteousness in papers that practice what might be called...
Senate Select Committee Chairman Daniel Inouye has one. So does Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh. So, too, does just about every journalist, congressional staffer and attorney investigating the labyrinthine intricacies of the Iran-contra scandal. Known simply as the Chron, the 678-page paperback (Warner Books; $5.95) has become the ultimate viewer's guide to the hearings...