Word: tongsun
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Dates: during 1976-1976
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Publicity like "Koreagate on Capitol Hill" is focusing on the bribery aspects of the activities of Tongsun Park and the Korean KCIA. Yet there seems to me an even more serious issue, namely, that the Korean business interests being promoted by these activities are not bringing prosperity to a nation. They are piling up fortunes for the few while the many work long hours, at all ages, and under conditions akin to those in the days of Dickens, just to keep alive...
...avowed liberal but has evolved into a conservative on many issues. Like O'Neill, Wright has few declared foes. Fourth and last in the race book was California's John J. McFall, 48, who had compounded the error of taking "gifts" from South Korea's Tongsun Park by denying, untruthfully, that he had done...
Would-be muckrakers find little dirt in O'Neill's record. He has voted right, by liberal Democratic standards, on virtually every major bill before the House. Tongsun Park paid heavily for a birthday party for O'Neill, but Tip got none of the money...
Until Kim's defection, the FBI probe of the scandal was virtually stalled. Businessman Tongsun Park, who entertained lavishly in Washington and doled out KCIA bribe money to a score of Congressmen, had fled the country to avoid being called before a federal grand jury. Comely Suzi Thomson, who regularly gave intimate parties at which Kim and other KCIA agents cemented relationships with influential Americans, had been a balky witness...
...majority whip, a post that would normally put him in line for the leader's job. Though O'Neill probably favors McFall, an easy man to get along with, the Californian's prospects have been seriously damaged by news that he received $4,000 from Tongsun Park, a South Korean businessman...