Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...party-line vote that could lead to a constitutional confrontation, the Senate Whitewater committee issued a subpoena for the notes of former White House aide William Kennedy concerning a Nov. 5, 1993, meeting in which Kennedy and others discussed the scandal. Because the President's personal lawyer was among the participants, Clinton has asserted his lawyer-client privilege in withholding the notes, as well as in ordering aides not to testify...
Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan warned that the U.S. would strictly monitor foreign banks in the wake of the Daiwa and Barings bank scandals. The Fed expelled Daiwa from the United States last month for covering up $1.1 billion in trading losses, while Britain's Barings collapsed amid losses by a single trader. Greenspan told a House Banking subcommittee exploring U.S. regulators' failure to detect the Daiwa losses that stronger internal controls are needed in a complex global banking system in which such internal failures can quickly cause wider financial havoc. "Whenever something like the Daiwa scandal occurs, congressional leaders...
...week vacuum at its top post, NATO named Javier Solana of Spain as the new secretary-general of the 16-nation alliance. The choice closes a difficult period for the Alliance that started when Willy Claes was forced to resign October 20 in connection with a government corruption scandal in his native Belgium. After the nominations of former Dutch Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers and former Danish Foreign Minister Uffe Ellemann-Jensen were blocked, Solana emerged as the favorite last month. TIME's Jane Walker reports that the choice of Solana, a former history professor and Spain's current Foreign Minister...
...coupling, but a happy one. Tony Randall, 75, took Heather Harlan, 25, to be his wife in a civil ceremony performed in 17th century English by New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. Harlan is an understudy in School for Scandal, Randall's latest Broadway vehicle, which opened last weekend. "He spoke of two people becoming one," said Randall. "I'm afraid I'm a sucker for that kind of thing." Randall's wife of 54 years, Florence, died of cancer...
...Tailhook-tainted U.S. Navy found itself scrambling to deal with a new sex scandal. This time, as reported in the Washington Post, a chief petty officer was charged with drunkenly groping a young female colleague during a commercial-airline flight. An additional 20 or so sailors were also on board--including a Navy chaplain with the rank of lieutenant commander--who apparently did nothing to intervene, despite the woman's screams. Further unwelcome news for Navy brass: some two dozen midshipmen from the U.S. Naval Academy are under investigation for alleged marijuana...