Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York's incumbent Governor Hugh Carey, 59, with a scandal-free and creditable record as the state's chief executive, trailed his silver-haired Republican opponent, Perry Duryea, 57, until the final weeks of the campaign. Duryea then refused to disclose fully his personal finances and to make public his tax returns. While no improprieties were charged, Carey hit hard on the issue and found the electorate in no mood to tolerate secrecy in such matters...
During its 30 years in power, South Africa's ruling National Party has been remarkably free of scandal. Not once, for example, has a high-ranking official been charged with misusing public funds. Last week that image of rectitude was shattered by the release of a 400-page report on an investigation being conducted by one of the country's most respected jurists. Confirming earlier newspaper accounts of widespread abuses in the Department of Information, an agency formerly controlled by one of South Africa's most powerful politicians, Supreme Court Justice Anton Mostert detailed alleged "improper application...
...report, consisting of depositions from many of the principals involved in the scandal, focuses on a plan to undermine the Daily Mail and other opposition newspapers by secretly subsidizing a new, pro-government tabloid, the Johannesburg Citizen. In 1976, says the report, the department provided a fertilizer company directed by Businessman Louis Luyt, 46, with $15 million in government cash -a direct violation of treasury regula tions. In exchange, Luyt testified, he pledged as publisher of the Citizen to support editorially the government's apartheid policies. But, Luyt said, he soon tired of Eschel Rhoodie's incessant efforts...
...resign. Eschel Rhoodie has hinted that an unnamed three-man Cabinet committee supervised the operations of his department. Prime Minister Botha has appointed yet another investigating committee, which is supposed to report to parliament in three weeks. Even John Vorster's name has been mentioned in the scandal; Luyt told Mostert that he agreed to start the Citizen only because he was led to believe that Vorster had personally selected him for the job At one stage in the press inquiry into the scandal, a crusading editor received a message that allegedly came from the former Prime Minister himself...
Perhaps the last thing that British newspaper readers needed was still another steamy tabloid featuring scandal, sports, crime and bare-breasted pinups. The format, rooted in the 19th century penny press and perfected in the frothy wake of the swinging '60s, now dominates British newsstands. The leading exponents of the "tits and bums" genre, as it is known on Fleet Street, are Publisher Rupert Murdoch's Sun (circ. 4 million) and the Daily Mirror (circ. 3.9 million). Each is fondled by twice as many customers a day as all four of Britain's major quality dailies combined...