Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...aftershocks are still rumbling through the Paris Bourse. Investors were stunned by last week's revelation that $85 million of the $255 million in the reserve fund of the Association of French Stock Exchanges, a stockbrokers' group, had been gambled away on speculative investments. In the wake of the scandal, the president of the association, Xavier Dupont, and one of his top deputies, Philippe Cosserat, resigned...
CAPOTE: A BIOGRAPHY by Gerald Clarke (Simon & Schuster; $22.95). An engrossing, sympathetic account of the Tiny Terror of U.S. letters and of a life spent swimming in a sea of scandal...
...city awash in scandal, Republicans take comfort in the fact that the sleaze issue has gone bipartisan now that the dealings of House Speaker Jim Wright are under investigation by the House Ethics Committee. By the end of the month, Attorney General Edwin Meese is likely to be skewered in a report from Independent Counsel James McKay declaring that the nation's top law- enforcement officer may have violated Government regulations regarding favoritism and the appearance of impropriety. The G.O.P. response will be to rebut Meese with Wright. Vice President George Bush gave a preview last month: "You talk about...
...hottest story in Washington, D.C. during the past two weeks was not the Pentagon procurement scandal, but rather the controversy surrounding syndicated columnist Carl Rowan's shooting of a teenaged intruder who had been swimming in his backyard pool...
...determination to bare the scandal, Congress granted immunity to all the defendants except Secord. That means their testimony cannot be used against them in a trial. But since the four are charged with conspiracy, each defendant has the right to use statements of his coconspirators that might show his own innocence. Last week Gesell ruled that the way out of this dilemma is to hold four trials. A jury thus could listen to immunized testimony that might help the defendant on trial in one case, while this testimony could not be used in the trial of the man who gave...