Word: bribes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unrest in Miami, for example, or terrorism in Central America. News-Press investigative reports led to the cancellation of a $1 million road-and-bridge project that would have benefited only the developer of a proposed housing tract, and to the conviction of a county commissioner for accepting a bribe in the form of services from prostitutes. News-Press editors provide crisp color and clear maps and charts and give play to national and foreign stories of import, whether or not they are of obvious interest to readers...
SENTENCED. John Jenrette, 47, former Democratic Congressman from South Carolina; to two years in prison and a $20,000 fine; for accepting a $50,000 bribe from FBI agents posing as Arab sheiks in the 1978-80 Abscam operation; in Washington, D.C. The sixth of seven U.S. legislators to be sentenced in Abscam, Jenrette asked the judge for leniency with a bit of forced insouciance, saying he had "no desire to further burden the overcrowded prisons...
...years he has left the most shadowy of paths. It was rumored, but never proved, that he tried to bribe high officials in the Nixon and Carter Administrations. According to Justice Department officials, he consorted with Libya's Muammar Gaddafi. In August, Columnist Jack Anderson placed him in the Nicaraguan bush. A month later, NBC reported that he was masterminding a major drug-smuggling operation out of the Bahamas. But Financier Robert Vesco, who fled the U.S. in late 1972 after being indicted on charges of swindling mutual-fund investors out of $224 million, has not surfaced publicly since...
...fire on the building, did the two emerge and were taken into custody. Austin was holed up in a palatial coastal resort that once was a haven for the island's leading capitalists. He fell for a ruse by Grenadian intelligence agents who pretended to accept his offered bribe of $2,000 to take him by boat to the neighboring island of Carriacou or $3,500 to get him to Marxistdominated Guyana. Instead, they set him up for easy capture by Army paratroopers. The U.S. held the two for eventual return to the custody of a new Grenadian government...
...scavenge the effects of recently executed prisoners; negotiating a field laced with land mines, a legacy of the U.S. involvement; gazing unflinchingly as the children's mother impales herself on a hook; tracing the attempt of the children and their benefactor, a Japanese photographer (Lam Chi-cheung), to bribe and fight their way to "freedom," which here is just another word for some place else...