Word: scandalizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wheels of military justice have begun turning in the Moscow embassy sex- for-secrets spy scandal. At the Marine base in Quantico, Va., a closed pretrial hearing resumes this week in the case of Sergeant Clayton J. Lonetree, the former embassy guard accused of providing Soviet agents with entry to the building's most sensitive areas. At a similar session two weeks ago, military authorities began outlining their case against Corporal Arnold Bracy, Lonetree's alleged accomplice. In each instance, a Marine reviewing officer will consider whether the Government's case justifies a court-martial on espionage charges, which...
Many a Protestant parson caught up in scandal has quietly been found guilty by an ecclesiastical panel and has then slipped from view. But last week a double defrocking was proclaimed to the world by the national head of the ministers' denomination. The ousted preachers are Jim Bakker, who confessed to adultery last March and then gave up his multimillion-dollar PTL television network and theme park at Fort Mill, S.C., and his former top executive, Richard Dortch, who was accused of orchestrating a cover-up of Bakker's lapse...
Badly shaken by the scandals, PTL last week put its debt at $65 million and began laying off 220 of its 2,000 employees. Assemblies Superintendent Carlson said the scandal "has been most painful, very difficult, embarrassing and humiliating" for his group, the fastest-growing Protestant denomination in the U.S. The Assemblies have ordered a special day of prayer and fasting for all 10,886 congregations...
That was perhaps the major impact of Richard Secord's testimony, which occupied the entire first week of public hearings by the joint congressional committee investigating the most explosive political scandal in a decade. Testifying primarily in the unemotional tones of a math professor but occasionally displaying flashes of deadpan wit and, under cross-examination, an acerbic temper, the retired Air Force major general described for four days how he organized and ran a private network that at the Government's behest secretly supplied arms to the contras in Nicaragua and later to Iran. Much of the story had been...
...reasonable to wonder, if Kennedy had lived and been re-elected, whether he would have got through a second term without a devastating scandal. Judith Exner was the moll of Mobsters John Roselli and Sam Giancana, and was introduced to Kennedy by Frank Sinatra. That's a deadly combination, even for those days. No President -- or candidate -- standing self-righteously on the great political trinity of wife, family and honor can expect to escape the judgment of the American voters on his sexual conduct. In the past, that judgment was often made posthumously. Now it happens much sooner...