Word: webs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Italy many a financial imbroglio has begun to emerge, only to vanish in the political sands. But governments must beware of dark conspiracies involving secret societies. The scandal surrounding the mysterious "P-2" Masonic lodge in 1981 entangled Cabinet ministers and military officers in a web of tax evasion and political intrigue. The uproar eventually toppled the Christian Democrat-led coalition government of Arnaldo Forlani, but no official was ever convicted, and Forlani is now back in government service...
...Phoenix building falls under a web of city zoning laws meant to discourage businesses from invading the residential parts of Mt. Auburn Street. The final club building includes one apartment, and was considered "residential" until last year...
...backpedaling White House seemed guilty, at the very least, of high incompetence. At the center of the storm was a little-known National Security Council staff member, Lieut. Colonel Oliver North, whose mysterious doings, and the questions they raised, threatened to enmesh many higher officials in a growing web of intrigue and deceit. At stake was nothing less than the viability of President Reagan's final two years in office...
...funds scandal, Oliver North and John Poindexter, into the Oval Office and demand from them an accounting of their activities. But above all, do something. Don't just wait for inquisitive journalists, congressional investigators or, eventually, an independent counsel to force out all the facts about North's sticky web of arms and money dealings. That will only intensify the drip, drip, drip of daily revelations that is wearing away the White House's credibility at an alarming rate...
Bush was just one of the U.S. officials caught last week in the ever widening web of intrigue surrounding the downed plane. Two days after Edwin Corr, the U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador, denied knowing Gomez, a Corr aide said the two men had lunched together. Meanwhile, Philip Buechler, a director in the State Department's Nicaraguan Humanitarian Assistance Office whose card was carried on the C-123K flight by Pilot William Cooper, angrily denied any connection with the supply runs. Said he: "Maybe it's none of anybody's business. Whatever happened to the right of privacy, to basic...