Word: scandalizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Navy last week was having difficulty preparing cases against Sergeant Clayton Lonetree and Corporal Arnold Bracy, the two Marines whose confessions triggered the scandal. The embassy guards have apparently repudiated or contradicted key sections of their initial statements, and much of the investigators' case against them rests on hearsay evidence and polygraph tests...
...worldwide investigation of embassy security. Marine Commandant P.X. Kelley has endorsed an internal Corps memorandum suggesting that the Justice Department assist the Navy in its probe. The memo's rationale is that American civilians will soon by implicated and that military investigators are overburdened by the scope of the scandal. Three Marine guards have been charged with espionage and one with fraternizing with Soviet women. Another Leatherneck suspected of spying has been recalled from his station in Brazil, where he was living with a Russian woman he met during a tour of duty at the Moscow embassy; he is currently...
...Kansas City and Eric Davis of Cincinnati began applying for Willie Mays' and Roberto Clemente's old jobs. That odd-shaped Minnesotan Kirby Puckett resumed clubbing homers the unlikely way he did last year. With his Ted Williams stroke, the Mets' Darryl Strawberry worked at dissociating himself from scandal...
...last thing that Shin Bet, Israel's equivalent of the FBI, needs is the hint of fresh scandal. The agency has been reeling from charges that it covered up the murders of two captured Arab bus hijackers in 1984, an affair that led eleven top Shin Bet officials to accept a presidential pardon in order to avoid possible criminal charges. Yet last week, amid newspaper headlines that screamed NEW SCANDAL, more trouble is exactly what Shin...
...Israeli press quickly identified the head Shin Bet investigator in the Napso case as Yossi Ginossar, who resigned from the agency in the bus- hijacking scandal. Ginossar, now director of the state-owned Israel Export Institute, issued a statement through his lawyer that news reports linking him to evidence tampering in the Napso case "were without any basis in reality." Shin Bet officials, who for security reasons want to avoid a public airing of their methods and operations in open court, have sounded out Napso on the possibility of a pardon. So far, he has rebuffed the entreaties...