Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...month White House search by accepting the $82,500-a-year position last week. Ruder has taught courses in SEC law and written extensively on securities, but some skeptics in Congress wonder if he is the "tough cop" needed to continue the crackdown on Wall Street's insider-trading scandal...
...which the government shrewdly equated with support for North Korea. But over the winter the students toned down their rhetoric. The two most popular slogans currently in use are "Tokchae Tado!" (Down with the dictatorship!) and "Hohun Tado!" (Down with the decision not to amend the constitution!). The latest scandal in the confrontation belongs to the government: police admitted they had tortured to death a Seoul University student during interrogation and then tried to cover up the incident, prompting Chun last month to shake up his Cabinet...
...questions about his pivotal role in the Iran-contra affair. North first invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination before the House Foreign Affairs Committee; last week the former National Security Council aide showed no interest in testifying privately to investigators of the congressional select committees probing the scandal...
...uproar grew out of an international scandal that has slowly been surfacing for more than six months. Concerned by apparent advances in Moscow's military technology, the Pentagon last year launched a probe to find out why the newest Soviet submarines were so much quieter and thus less vulnerable to enemy detection than their predecessors. Investigators discovered that between 1981 and 1984 Toshiba Machine and Kongsberg had falsified export documents and secretly supplied the Soviets with computer-controlled lathes used to manufacture state-of-the-art propellers for submarines and aircraft carriers. The props are particularly valuable on Soviet subs...
...admitted some knowledge of the Iranian arms deals and money- raising efforts for the contras, but steadfastly denies that he knew anything about the diversion of weapons profits to the contras. But the crucial question of exactly what Reagan knew has not been answered in the hearings. When the scandal broke, he downplayed his role in soliciting support for the contras while the congressional ban against U.S. aid was in effect. After McFarlane testified that Reagan had talked with Saudi Arabia's King Fahd about contra assistance, the President acknowledged playing a larger part. Then, last week in Venice...