Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SCANDAL. It's all here: the loveless romances of Christine Keeler with a Soviet spy, a Jamaican drug dealer and John Profumo, Secretary of War in Harold Macmillan's Cabinet. This express tour through Swinging London plays like News of the World headlines set to early '60s rock 'n' roll...
Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita persevered for months, but last week his determination to weather the burgeoning Recruit scandal gave out. The meticulous planner and quintessential clubman of Japanese politics surprised his country by abruptly announcing that he would quit his post "to regain the trust of the people." Yet his departure had been a long time coming, as pressure built for months over what the Japanese call kinken-seiji, or money politics, the well-oiled system by which the nation's leaders attain power...
...dramatic turns in the Recruit scandal, which grew over the past ten months into Japan's worst since World War II, left the nation's politics in chaos. Japanese were anxiously asking, What next? First the Liberal Democratic Party must find a new Prime Minister untainted by the scandal. Japan is likely to face months of weak leadership and political uncertainty. That could have consequences as far away as Washington, where a host of trade and defense disputes have yet to be resolved. One of the thorniest was on the way to being settled last week, however, when President Bush...
...Japanese must also decide whether to turn an unsavory scandal into an opportunity to reform their money-greased political system. That may prove the biggest challenge. Takeshita fell victim to his success at mastering the sometimes seamy rules of the system. In common with other party leaders, Takeshita indirectly received shares of cut-rate stock in Recruit, an aggressive information and real estate conglomerate. In all, Takeshita received more than $1 million in campaign contributions, stocks and secret loans from the company. The money went not to a personal account but to fund campaigns and pay staff salaries...
...endless disclosures of wide-scale political financing bordering on corruption eventually shocked a nation that had come to think of itself as a modern, democratic superpower. "The L.D.P. must change," said Hiroko Yoshida, 27, a * department-store clerk. "It can no longer stay as it is after this scandal." Takeshita, who was also in trouble for imposing a consumption tax, was blamed for exposing the dirty side of the nation's politics, then failing to correct...