Word: scandalizing
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German authorities disclosed the weekend arrest of a 34-year-old man for smuggling weapons-grade plutonium into Bremen, the fourth seizure in a widening scandal traced to ex-military contacts in the former Soviet Union. Last weekend police arrested other couriers who arrived on a flight from Moscow. They were carrying more than 10.6 oz. of plutonium-239, a substance so toxic that a few millionths of a gram can kill. Another seizure netted 4 kg, the largest amount ever discovered in private hands. Though German analyses reportedly show that all the plutonium came from the former Soviet Union...
...fact, the tangled web was spun by the Administration itself. What emerged from more than 100 hours of complex testimony about the Whitewater scandal was evidence of a persistent pattern of deception among White House staff members. By last week it was clear that both Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill felt they had been misled by the Clinton White House. Roger Altman demanded that lawmakers believe his own recollections of meetings, rather than those of seven other officials who contradicted him under oath. Joshua Steiner, the 28- year-old Treasury chief of staff, insisted that his diary...
...comment and such issues as the family's embrace of Nazism are all deftly combined. Spotts told TIME he was so determined to maintain the right proportions that he omitted his biggest scoop: that Hitler sexually abused the young Wieland during the '20s. If he had gone into that scandal, Spotts says, "it would be all anybody wrote about...
...bickering, the House Banking Committee began its hearings into the Whitewater affair. A series of Administration figures offered the unsurprising testimony that they had not interfered with a government investigation of the failed S&L at the heart of the Whitewater matter. Republicans, hoping to sustain an air of scandal, charged that Administration actions nevertheless served as an example of "Me generation public ethics...
Twenty years ago today, Richard Nixon dodged the bullet of impeachment by resigning as president of the United States. The Watergate scandal that caused his political demise began to unravel with news reports of burglary in 1972 at Democratic Party headquarters. It became clear that Richard Nixon had played a key role in covering up the crime. During the last decade, Nixon worked hard to rehabilitate his reputation. But upon his death earlier this year he was remembered widely as the only president to step down before his term of office expired...