Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Shin Kanemaru, 78, was the Mr. Big of Japanese politics, the man whose backstage maneuvering made several Prime Ministers, including the current one, Kiichi Miyazawa. Kanemaru thought he could slide through scandal with a public apology at a press conference and a small fine for accepting a $4 million illegal campaign contribution. But the Japanese public, stirred by the arrogance of the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party power brokers, was furious that Kanemaru got off so lightly. Protests within his party, in business circles and in the press finally forced Kanemaru to resign his seat in the Diet...
ATTORNEYS WHO CONTEND THAT DEMOCRATIC PATRIARCH CLARK CLIFFORD, 85, is too ill to stand trial for his alleged role in the B.C.C.I. scandal could well be right. When Clifford sought heart surgery at the Washington Hospital Center in July, doctors quietly determined that his heart was too weak to withstand an operation. "He has practically no heart muscle left," says a medical source. Clifford was later hospitalized briefly for internal bleeding. His lawyers now plan to ask a New York judge to dismiss the charges against him on the ground that the rigors of a trial could cause a fatal...
...invaded Kuwait. And we do know that as secretary of state, James A. Baker III made sure that Iraq received $1 billion in farm credit guarantees despite the Agriculture Department's independent ruling to limit such guarantees because of concerns about Iraq's possible involvement in an international bank scandal...
...bits of brain" on him and the other two Green Berets in the boat. Undaunted, the trio rolled the body of the alleged North Vietnamese double agent into the murky waters off Nha Trang -- and into presumed obscurity. Instead, this 1969 real-life slaying triggered a Vietnam War scandal second only to the My Lai killings, and one of infinitely more complex moral overtones...
...Independent supporters say the CCA will use the Walsh scandal as an excuse to purge City Hall of Independent sympathizers. They allege that CCA councillors are likely to portray the Connarton dismissal as part of a move to clean up City Hall...