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DIED. RONALD ZIEGLER, 63, President Nixon's defiant, clueless press aide during the Watergate scandal; of a heart attack; in Coronado, Calif. Ziegler was only 29 when Richard Nixon sent him to manage the hostilities in the White House press room. "Ron Zig-liar," some reporters called him, but the lies Ziegler told were mostly the President's, given that he didn't really know what was going on in the White House. When Nixon packed himself off to exile in 1974, Ziegler went with him. It was as if he didn't know what else...
...third-rate burglary," of a heart attack; in San Diego. Ziegler publicly stood by Nixon even after Watergate led to his downfall in 1974. But according to former White House counsel John Dean, Ziegler could have been "Deep Throat", the mysterious source who helped the Washington Post expose the scandal. "It's necessary to fudge sometimes," Ziegler once said about his work as presidential spokesman, "but I never walked out on that podium and lied...
...issues. These are all tricks that are being played on us." COLIN POWELL, U.S. Secretary of State, dismisses a third progress report on Iraq by U.N. weapons inspectors "As a person, I feel miserable and my heart is aching." KIM DAE-JUNG, South Korean President, apologizes for the Hyundai scandal, in which loans to the company were secretly funnelled to North Korea "India desires to dominate the region. It is a desire that will never be fulfilled." SHEIKH RASHID AHMED, Pakistani Information Minister, lashes out following India's third missile test in recent months, as Indo-Pak rhetoric heats...
...colleagues knew she was dating University President Lawrence H. Summers before the Paulin situation erupted—those who hadn’t been told learned from The Boston Globe in June—but largely ignored the relationship as a private matter. Yet, once the Paulin scandal broke, professors wary of outside interference in departmental affairs wanted to know what information Summers had, what he thought, and what he might do. They could no longer ignore the fact that one of their colleagues probably knew the answers to these questions and could conceivably have divided loyalties. The case brought...
...this leaves South Korea's laureate leader as the lamest of lame ducks, tarnished by scandal and failure. His once promising legacy now seems more suited to an epitaph: Money can't buy you love?or peace...