Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Journalists since the Watergate scandal have indulged themselves in a largely undeserved "orgy of self-congratulations," former Washington Post investigative reporter Carl Bernstein said in a panel discussion at the Kennedy School last night...
...detentions marked a fresh turn in the Recruit scandal, the spreading stock-for-influence deal that has already claimed three Cabinet ministers in the government of Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita. Shinto stands accused of taking $70,000 in bribes in the form of stock profits from heavily discounted shares of a Recruit Co. subsidiary. In return, the former NTT boss allegedly helped the fast-growing employment-and-communications firm break into the telecommunications business...
...Recruit affair has put intense pressure on the Takeshita government, whose popularity is at a record low of 21% in the polls. Opposition parties have called for the Prime Minister to resign unless he acts soon to clear up the scandal. Says one pundit: "Takeshita is in a real...
...corruption charges that have been scorching Greek politics engulfed Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou last week in the worst crisis of his tenure. Papandreou found himself compelled to rebut allegations by the central figure in the multimillion-dollar banking scandal that the Prime Minister personally received some of those millions as secret payments for political favor. The accusations, which ran in TIME and as a cover story in several of the magazine's foreign editions, inspired passionate outcry in Greece and provoked opposition leaders in Parliament to demand the Prime Minister's resignation...
Meanwhile, the spreading scandal continued to collect victims. Yannis Mantzouranis, former secretary to the Greek Cabinet and a Koskotas confidant, was arrested on allegations that he received $2 million from Koskotas in a Swiss bank account. Also jailed was Panayotis Vournas, general manager of the postal service. He was charged with depositing 7 billion drachmas (nearly $50 million) in the Bank of Crete in an attempt to shore it up shortly before the scandal broke last fall...