A kickback scandal and illegal contributions to the Nixon re-election campaign had damaged morale.

Mr. Frank, who was apparently unharmed, exposed a kickback scandal that cost the police and fire pension funds an estimated $333,000.

But the kickback scandal could reverberate outside Canada's borders too.

That center has been racked in the last year by a kickback scandal involving a handful of clothing companies and some Defense Department employees.

A8 A kickback scandal spreads around the Italian Socialist leader.

The upheaval began a year ago when investigators uncovered a kickback scandal in Socialist-run Milan.

Complicating matters, Fiat executives came under fire in connection with Italy's big kickback scandals.

The previous effort to build a bridge collapsed in 1975 amid a kickback scandal that sent the City Engineer to prison.

In 1986, amid a kickback scandal, it lost the $80 million United States Army account, which represented about 12 percent of its total billings.

A7 In Canada, a kickback scandal and a counterthreat.