Word: slushing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...previous mayor, Ralph J. Park, left the city's books in an exemplary mess. Park mixed into one simmering municipal slush fund the city's taxes, federal grants and special-purpose bond and note revenues. Hs financial methods have prompted an investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Kucinich alleges that Park illegally spent bond revenue on general operations while the banks looked the other way and handed out money to cover the growing deficit. Park won their cooperation with business-oriented policies, including major tax cuts establishing a "free trade zone" for banks and large businesses. To keep...
Leaving the capital in the midst of an unseasonal storm that sent snowflakes swirling through Washington and dumped up to two inches of mush and slush in the Virginia and Maryland suburbs, Carter headed for the welcome 85° heat of Albuquerque for a closed meeting of Governors of nine Western states. Though the airport crowd of 1,000 was generally friendly, the placards were mixed: WASHINGTON, TIGHTEN YOUR BELT-I'M LOSING MY PANTS, WELCOME TO AMERICA'S ENERGY POLICY-JUST DON'T BREATHE (a reference to Albuquerque's air pollution problem), and TEDDY LOVES...
...presidential primary. In Michigan, John P. McGoff fired two editors in his small right-wing chain when they refused to give front-page play to a couple of vicious anti-Carter stories. Last week the government of South Africa admitted that it made available $11.5 million from a secret slush fund in 1974 during McGoff s unsuccessful attempt to buy the Washington Star. Presumably, South Africa hoped to turn the Star into a public relations organ for that country's racism. Loeb and McGoff are anachronisms, but hardly powerful...
...worse. Playing the John Dean role, in this South African version of Watergate, is Eschel Rhoodie, 45, the former Secretary of Pretoria's Department of Information. Rhoodie, who is now living in self-imposed exile in Europe and South America, was in charge of a multimillion-dollar slush fund that his department used to secure favorable publicity for South Africa's policies in both the foreign and domestic press. To accomplish this end at home. Rhoodie has charged that the government of former Prime Minister (now State President) John Vorster clandestinely-and illegally-poured some $37 million into...
...other secret projects. All the officials concerned have denied this allegation, but the scandal has already led to the resignation of one ranking Cabinet member: former Minister of Information Cornelius P. Mulder, who was Rhoodie's supervisor. Some observers believe Vorster must surely have known about the slush fund; there are also suspicions that his awareness of the impending scandal may have been an important reason behind his sudden retirement as Prime Minister last September...