Word: bribed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During the 1970 election, in which Allende eventually was elected President, $500,000 was given to opposition party personnel. An expenditure of $350,000 was authorized to bribe the Chilean Congress, which at that time was faced with deciding a run-off election between Allende and the opposition candidate. The bribe would have been part of a scheme to overturn the results of the election in which Allende had gained a plurality, but that plan, although originally approved by the 40 Committee, was later evaluated as unworkable...
Griggs quickly learned, however, that many of the old frustrations of news gathering had persisted. "The telephone system remains a shambles, punctuality is still nonexistent, and appointments are seldom kept. The old Belgian bureaucracy has been embroidered upon and enhanced, and the matabish, or bribe, is still in full flower...
Substantial responsibility for this state of affairs rests with the U.S., whose policies helped make it impossible for Allende to govern. When Allende was elected president of Chile in 1970 by a 36 per cent plurality, CIA agents paid out $350,000 to bribe opposition members of the National Assembly, which had to ratify his election. Following the election, the State Department authorized more than $5 million more to undermine Allende's Popular Unity government and to influence the outcome of the Congressional elections held in 1973, when Allende increased his plurality to 44 per cent. Additional funds were funneled...
Church officials first quietly offered the Morreales a compromise: the baptism would be allowed if Mrs. Morreale would privately drop her support for Baird. She refused, because "it felt somehow like a bribe." Boston's archbishop, Humberto Cardinal Medeiros, told a TV newsman that no priest in the archdiocese would baptize the child unless Mrs. Morreale backed down. Baird countered with a dramatic nationwide call for a volunteer to perform the baptism...
...only worry. State or local prosecutors could bring charges in either California or Florida. Civil suits could also be filed. There is the added certainty that Private Citizen Nixon will face the annoyance of frequent appearances as a witness-in the cover-up trial and the Connally milk bribe case among others...