Word: scandalizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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TIME did not mean to imply that James Capel & Co. or Mr. Graham was involved in any scandal...
More than 100 members of the Reagan Administration have had ethical or legal charges leveled against them. That number is without precedent. While the Reagan Administration's missteps may not have been as flagrant as the Teapot Dome scandal or as pernicious as Watergate, they seem more general, more pervasive and somehow more ingrained than those of any previous Administration. During other presidencies, scandals such as Watergate seemed to multiply from a single cancer; the Reagan Administration, however, appears to have suffered a breakdown of the immune system, opening the way to all kinds of ethical and moral infections...
...Iran-contra scandal spreads in ever wider circles, a disturbing image of Ronald Reagan is taking shape. Most accounts of Iranscam, notably the damning Tower commission report, depict the President as a woolly-minded, out- of-touch leader who permitted a band of overzealous aides to conduct secret and possibly illegal operations right under his nose. The White House has done little to dispute that characterization, and for good reason: an inattentive Reagan who knew little of the weapons sales to Iran and nothing about the illicit funneling of arms to the Nicaraguan rebels seemed better than a President...
...President was drawn by Robert McFarlane last week during four days of sometimes anguished public testimony before the House and Senate Select Committees investigating Iranscam. McFarlane, who served as Reagan's National Security Adviser from October 1983 to December 1985, is perhaps the most poignant figure in the scandal. Last February, depressed about his role in the political melodrama, he attempted suicide by swallowing an overdose of Valium...
...COVER: A scandal- scarred spring tests...