Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...George, formerly the CIA deputy director for operations, who is now on trial for perjury, received a similar offer to name names right to the top. Oliver North, once Reagan's most adoring acolyte, proclaimed his own unclouded version of the former President's involvement in the Iran-contra scandal in his memoirs: "President Reagan knew everything...
...somehow obtained secret Communist Party documents, reveals how close reformers came to approving a plan to ease Fidel into a Prime Minister's job and ease out socialism at the October 1991 Party Congress. His reporting is solid and engrossing, especially on the Ochoa-De La Guardia drug scandal and Cuba's involvement with Panama's now deposed Manuel Noriega. Oppenheimer claims that Cuba was set to begin running Panama's intelligence apparatus just before the 1989 U.S. invasion. He also deals with Cuba's silent issue, the black majority who are not eager to see the white exiles...
...Scandal first erupted in July, when police raided Bateman's campus apartment and netted 650 pornographic videos. So far, police believe that they have identified at least one Exeter student in a video. Last Wednesday a federal grand jury indicted Bateman on 38 counts of violating the prohibition against shipping child pornography through the U.S. mail. If convicted, he faces a maximum of life in prison and $9.5 million in fines. Mortified school officials promptly fired Bateman from his post as chair of the drama department and began fielding furious calls from alumni and donors as well as parents. Full...
...bank officers, government officials and journalists. Criminal counts against the bank, shut down by regulators last July, included specific allegations that B.C.C.I. bribed government and banking officials in 10 countries. A B.C.C.I. director, Sheik Kamal Adham, last week became the second prominent Saudi to be caught up in the scandal; last month Sheik Khalid bin Mahfouz, head of the largest commercial bank in Saudi Arabia, was indicted in New York. (See related story on page...
...Just as U.S. Navy officials thought they had swamped the embarrassing Tailhook affair with a wave of new ship announcements and a major reorganization plan, the scandal bobbed right back to the surface. Investigators in San Diego discovered a cache of several rolls of film that showed the manhandling of a 17-year-old girl who was partly disrobed by a corridorful of rowdy Navy and Marine aviators at the 1991 Tailhook Association convention in the Las Vegas Hilton Hotel. The snapshots detail an episode in which the hopelessly inebriated teenager staggers down the hall while drunken officers tear...