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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fedders had a history of "black moods," and these apparently were exacerbated by a 1982-83 federal grand jury investigation of Southland, the Dallas-based operator of 7-Eleven. Southland was accused of attempting to bribe state officials, and Fedders was questioned about his role in helping the company conduct an internal investigation, which failed to turn up any wrongdoing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Troubled Double Life | 3/11/1985 | See Source »

Noonan inevitably begins by attempting a definition: "A bribe is an inducement improperly influencing the performance of a public function meant to be gratuitously exercised." Fair enough, but what is an inducement? What is improper? At the very dawn of human society, Noonan argues, the offering of gifts for reciprocal services was a commonplace sign of good intentions. A roving tribesman might offer some bright stone to a stranger simply to show that he meant no violence. The most important strangers to be courted with such gifts were the divine forces that brought rain or wind, hence the tradition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: They Do Not Know It Is Wrong | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

Despite the widespread acceptance of corruption, though, new laws kept gradually broadening the concept of bribery. In 1881 New York became the first state to make it a misdemeanor to bribe private citizens. During the next half century, 16 other states passed laws against bribing specific kinds of private employees: chauffeurs in Illinois, gardeners in Maryland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: They Do Not Know It Is Wrong | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

...extensive that a number of Nixon officials ended up in jail after hush money was offered to the burglars. Noonan even suggests that the campaign against corruption may now conflict with other standards. Of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, which made it a crime for companies to bribe officials abroad, Noonan remarks that "no such law had ever been framed in this country or anywhere else." And with the Abscam sting, he writes, the Justice Department simply went too far: "A moral government will not resort to foul means to enforce the ethic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: They Do Not Know It Is Wrong | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

...Both the chemicals and the building were apparently owned by Colombia's Ochoa clan. Shortly afterward, Julian Melo, the general secretary of the Panamanian National Defense Forces High Command, was arrested, accused of allowing the Colombians to transport the ether through the country in exchange for a $2 million bribe. Melo was never prosecuted, however, and many Panamanians assumed that he was merely a symbolic victim sacrificed to appease / Washington. "It stretches the imagination," said a Western diplomat in Panama, "to think that nobody but Melo could have been aware of the dealings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fighting the Cocaine Wars | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

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