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...Clark walked into, and deftly out of, his own scandal, when in 1959 the House Oversight Committee investigated payola, the record industry's system of bribing disc jockeys and program managers in return for airplay. It ended the career of Alan Freed, the man credited with applying the black sexual term rock-and-roll to jump music. (By the way, that's a lie; the phrase goes back much earlier than Freed. In the 1941 film "Swing for Your Supper" young Dorothy Dandridge sings of her musical education: "They made me rock 'n roll ... brought me up on good...
...that the scandal-trained media had ignored the story before. It was July 4 week, with its congressional recess and all-around dearth of news, that marked the Condit tale's ascendancy into the tier just below Monica and O.J. and Jon-Benet. But there was still more unsaid than said, some restraint in the airwaves. Condit's leaked admission was the cutting of the leash...
...Greenfield says, "...practically all scandal these days...is cover-up-less about what someone did in the first place than about the frantic, insane steps he took to preserve Mr. Image...
...there's nothing bland or diffident about Mueller's sharp, commanding style, formed on the hockey rinks of St. Paul's and Princeton and as a Marine officer on the front line in Vietnam. Confronted with a range of high-profile cases, from the BCCI bank fraud scandal to the Pan Am 103 terrorism investigation, he proved so decisive and careless of controversy that at one point, his deputy Dave Margolis warned him gently that if he didn't choose his battles, Washington might bang him up as it had done to so many of his predecessors...
...FRANCE J'Accuse The scandal surrounding slush-fund payments by the Elf oil company threatened to implicate the current government as former Foreign Minister Roland Dumas provided Le Figaro newspaper with fresh allegations. Dumas, sentenced last month to six months in jail on corruption charges, said Employment Minister Elisabeth Guigou and Foreign Minister Hubert Védrine knew about illicit payments to secure the purchase of a German oil refinery for Elf. Guigou and Védrine, former presidential advisers to François Mitterrand, denied the allegations...