INVESTIGATIONS: Jaworski Comes Back

It involves Congressmen who have accepted gifts of cash, trips, women—or all three—from agents of the South Korean government, and it is expected to produce Justice Department indictments of five former Representatives later this summer. But is the House Democratic leadership at the same time covering up its own long-stalled attack on the so-called Koreagate scandal? Countering such suspicions, Speaker Tip O'Neill and Majority Leader Jim Wright last week persuaded former Watergate Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski to lead the House ethics committee investigation into the whole affair.

Jaworski, 71, had comfortably...

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