Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rarely has a scandal been more appropriately named. What started as a trickle of rumors and allegations has grown into a raging entity that is devouring jobs, reputations, and possibly a presidency. The resignation of White House Counsel Bernie Nussbaum should indicate to all just how serious the Whitewater affair has become...
...scandal, say some in Washington, serves as an overdue wake-up call for the U.S. government -- a notice that the benign esteem in which the Clinton foreign policy team holds Russia is dangerously myopic. The Ames scandal "ends the simpleminded optimism that we could have a relationship with Russia that would be without clouds," says Paul Goble, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. "The simpleminded confidence that Yeltsin is a good guy is naive...
Such objections were shared by a growing number of American lawmakers who seized upon the spy scandal as an opportunity to peel themselves farther away from the Administration's foreign policy and begin sniping at the President. In the Senate, Republican leader Bob Dole declared that the affair "threatens the foundation of our relationship with the new republic of Russia." Adding that the U.S. has "moved perhaps too far, too fast in assuming that changes in Russia have permanently altered the international landscape," he called for the Russian government to condemn its efforts to penetrate U.S. intelligence and, if evidence...
...best measure of Ickes' influence is that the Clintons have given him responsibility for their three most pressing problems: health care, the 1994 elections and the murky Whitewater scandal. His giant portfolio irritates some colleagues. "He's making a big difference," said one official. "The problem is now that he's started to make a difference, they're trying to make him do everything...
Russia: A spy scandal erodes U.S. support for Yeltsin...