Word: bribes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...instance, a lot of money was used to bribe some German technicians in order to acquire a (West German) Leopard tank. The question was how to get the engine to the U.S.S.R. The solution was for the Soviet consul in the area to buy a yacht and have its engine taken out and replaced with the Leopard's engine. The yacht then rendezvoused several miles out to sea with a Soviet merchant ship, to which the engine was transferred...
...Caro Quintero were angry with the agent over a police and army raid on a plantation in Chihuahua, owned by the two drug dealers, in which 8,000 tons of marijuana were burned. Fonseca added that the intention had been to question Camarena and offer him a bribe. He also claimed that he was too drunk to talk to Camarena until the next day, when Caro Quintero allegedly told him, "Well, see if you can still reach him, because he is no longer speaking." The agent, Fonseca explained, had been brutally beaten, but was still alive. "Now you have done...
...maintain as a kind of dirty half-secret. Viet Nam was, for America, essentially a class war. The children of the poor and the lower middle class tended to do the fighting. The children of the privileged tended to get draft deferments to go to college, or to bribe doctors to concoct and certify a disability for them...
...foreigners. Representative Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, asked Lewis last week about "a whole host of questionable payments being made overseas," including a $250,000 annual fee to a South Korean consultant. Lewis vehemently denied that the money was being funneled to the South Korean government as a bribe to win contracts for F-16 fighters. The chairman rejected a charge made by Veliotis that he had received permission from Lewis to go after contracts to sell natural-gas tankers to Burma and Indonesia by offering kickbacks of $1 million a ship. "I have absolutely no knowledge of that," Lewis...
...authorities arraigned six Jalisco state policemen last week on charges related to the kidnap and murder of U.S. Narcotics Agent Enrique Camarena Salazar in Guadalajara last month. The arrested officers have confessed that drug traffickers offered them from $200 to $6,250 a month for official protection--a tempting bribe for men who make only $200 to $400 a month and often must buy their own pistols...