Word: scandalizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chat filled up the time. One woman recounted the woes of a dreary day following her state's legislative delegation through a series of raucous St. Patrick's Day appearances. A fellow from a small wire service told a joke about the scandal surrounding Rev. Jim Bakker. "He's a lay preacher." "What?" "He got laid, get it>" It fell very flat among the correspondents' business suits...
Reagan may have responded appropriately to the foreign affairs scandal by kicking the rascals out, but he still has a lot more cleaning to do, for other equally devious rascals feel much too safe in Washington. Ultimately, however, Reagan's biggest problem--as the case of the drug bill shows--is his own proclivity toward demagoguery and hypocrisy. His own subordinates have merely been following his example...
...biggest of the big-time Christian TV entrepreneurs, Pat Robertson, was uninvolved in the Bakker scandal. Nonetheless, after the incident became public, a survey for Robertson noted a slight dip in his standing as a potential candidate. In polls he has been running at a flat 6% to 8%, trailing George Bush, Robert Dole and Jack Kemp. The gospel TV controversy does nothing to help Robertson, and appears quite likely to increase nationwide skepticism about Christian telecasters and weaken Robertson's appeal...
Following Bracy's arrest, the case rapidly spiraled into a spy scandal of major proportions. "It's a biggie," said one White House official. "A real biggie." Soviet penetration of embassy communications has been so extensive, officials fear, that U.S. negotiating positions were compromised before the Reykjavik summit last October. The security damage has also seriously hampered preparations for Secretary of State George Shultz's trip to Moscow April 13 -- and could cast a pall over prospects for a summit this year...
Lonetree, who is from St. Paul, arrived in Moscow in September 1984, and allegedly started working for the KGB soon after he began a love affair with an embassy translator. She later introduced the Marine to her "Uncle Sasha," an operative known as Aleksei Yefimov. The scandal began to unfold when Lonetree, feeling pressure from the Soviets, surrendered to U.S. authorities in Vienna last December. Bracy, a native of Queens, N.Y., is said to have had a sexual relationship with one of the embassy's Soviet staff, a cook. Both of the women who became involved with the Marines were...