Word: teapots
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Unfortunately, no single name seems to encompass all the tentacles of the expanding crisis: a Teapot Dome, say, or Bay of Pigs. Nor is the problem merely a linguistic one. Just what name the affair acquires may influence how it is viewed by the American public. A scandal dubbed, say, Ayatullahgate or Mullahmess will be hard to take seriously, much less spell correctly. On the other hand, a silly name could offer some welcome comic relief in what might become an increasingly grim affair...
...Administration tried to put the controversy to rest. "Most of this is a tempest in a teapot, because our formal position is in writing and now tabled in Geneva," said a senior White House official. The U.S. proposal has two parts: start by eliminating half of all strategic warheads and delivery vehicles; scrap all ballistic missiles by 1996. The firmness of Soviet intentions to link any agreement to restrictions on SDI should become clearer this week, when Secretary of State George Shultz meets in Vienna with Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze...
...were in custody. A state of emergency, declared when the coup attempt began, had yet to be lifted, and there were signs that Prem might shake up his Cabinet to give his government a needed boost of confidence. "This is and will be known as a tempest in a teapot," editorialized the Nation Review, an English- language daily in Bangkok. "But how other countries will view it is difficult...
...been slow to punish what it forbade. Not until the 1920s was the first Cabinet-level official convicted of bribery (former Interior Secretary Albert Fall in the Teapot Dome scandal). By the time of Watergate, the anticorruption ethic was so extensive that a number of Nixon officials ended up in jail after hush money was offered to the burglars. Noonan even suggests that the campaign against corruption may now conflict with other standards. Of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, which made it a crime for companies to bribe officials abroad, Noonan remarks that "no such law had ever...
...Teapot Dome scandal of 1923, Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall and Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty were charged with crimes after leaving office. So were three Nixon Administration officials in the Watergate period: Attorney General John Mitchell, Attorney General Richard Kleindienst and Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans...