Word: bribed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This paratrooper readily admitted that he "can live with the Communists." For those who feel that they cannot, the talk last week was mainly of possible means of escape. The chances are not good, except for the very rich who can pay enough of a bribe for a passport (current price: as high...
...Wall Street Journal, which had learned the results of the SEC probe, extracted from United Brands a public admission that last year it had paid a $1.25 million bribe to a high official in Honduras-and speculation immediately centered on none other than the chief of state of the country, Oswaldo Lopez Arellano. The bribe was offered in order to win a reduction in a 500 export tax on every 40-lb. box of the bananas that United Brands grows in Honduras and sells in the U.S., mostly under the "Chiquita" trademark. The company's statement said that Black...
Hoping to avert a mass exodus, the government has banned travel abroad, and passports are issued only for "special cases." To qualify for that category, a bribe of $2,000 or more is needed. Even so, the passport office is crammed with applicants. When a rumor swept the city that Australia was granting unlimited visas to South Vietnamese, a massive crowd snarled traffic in front of the Australian embassy. After the 1954 truce, as many as 50,000 Vietnamese settled in France, which many Vietnamese regard as a cultural mother country. Last week the French embassy was again besieged...
...most comic mug since Tom Dewey. Ah, yes, we think, as we watch George's tumescence, very similar to the swelling of CREEP's campaign funds. A pair of legs spreading apart, we realize, is quite analogous to the hairy palm of a politician opening up to receive a bribe. As we watch George lose Jackie at just the moment he recognizes his love for her, the lesson of the movie becomes clear: HE WHO FUCKS OVER OTHERS EVENTUALLY FUCKS OVER HIMSELF, whether it be a mindless hairdresser with a scheming penis or a balls-less politician with a scheming...
...adversaries in the rush-hour traffic were it not for the trial of Big John Connally, which opens this week in Washington. Williams is defending Connally, three times the Governor of Texas, and Secretary of the Treasury under Richard M. Nixon, against charges that he accepted a $10,000 bribe in return for using his influence to secure a 1971 hike in milk-price supports. The lawyer heading the Government's three-man team of prosecutors is Cyclist Tuerkheimer. Outwardly, the case seems to be a classic example of a storied defense attorney pitted against an obscure Government lawyer...