Word: scandalizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...business off-camera, as did the Tower commission. No secrecy necessary -- the entire record could have been made public at the close of the investigation. Then there would have been no Ollie -- only Colonel North, the slightly disreputable, if not discredited, "switching point" (Poindexter's phrase) of the political scandal of the decade...
...excellent chance of cutting off aid." Predictions of a complete cutoff were widespread last fall when it was first learned that the Administration had been circumventing congressional restrictions on support for the rebels. But lawmakers now admit that any new aid package must be considered apart from the scandal. "With North's testimony, there's obviously a mood in Congress that the issue of contra aid needs to be handled on its merits," admits California Democrat Leon Panetta, a contra opponent...
ARREST WARRANT NULLIFIED. For Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, 65, head of the Vatican Bank who had been charged by Italian authorities as an "accessory to fraudulent bankruptcy" in the 1982 collapse of Banco Ambrosiano, Italy's worst postwar banking scandal; by the country's highest tribunal, the Court of Cassation; in Rome. In voiding arrest warrants for the Cicero, Ill.-born prelate and two senior Vatican bank officials, the court ruled that the 1929 Lateran Treaty, which recognizes Vatican City as a sovereign state, protects "central bodies" of the church from "every interference" by the Italian government...
...last there was something tangible that the American mind knew how to address: an apparent legal transgression, a scandal involving the misuse of money. The diversion became a diversion of its own, distracting attention from the thornier basic issues involved. The messy, demanding job of weighing a policy -- several policies, really -- and passing judgment gave way to the tidier task of searching for a smoking gun. There was even a ready-made framework from an earlier, dissimilar, scandal: What did the President know...
...served as Washington bureau chief from 1968 to 1973, points out that there have always been tensions between New York and the capital's reporters. "Creative friction is unavoidable," he says. Some Times staffers speculate that Frankel is particularly sensitive about the paper's coverage of the current scandal because he headed the bureau during the early days of Watergate, when the Post regularly beat the Times...