Word: bribing
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...thoroughly by accountants, and are supervised carefully by government agencies. Where there is keen competition among several suppliers, however, some arms companies try a little harder. "Graft fuels almost every arms transaction," admits a veteran European arms trader. In his view, the main factor determining the size of the bribe required to make a sale is the degree to which power is dispersed within the government buying the arms. "Some governments are so tight at the top that one or two handouts will do. Others are so 'democratic' that you practically have to bribe the lavatory attendants...
...following sentence: "The end product of the policies of the U.S. government towards Chile was the military coup that occurred in September 1973." Not mentioning how insignificant the $8 million really was in relation to the Chilean effort is extremely offending. Furthermore, LeMoyne talks about money being available to bribe Chilean Congressmen into voting against Allende. But PLEASE do not insinuate that the Chilean politicians are corrupt--especially since they refused to accept the bribes (a fact which LeMoyne, of course, does not mention...
...John Connally is scheduled to go to trial in March on charges of accepting a $10,000 bribe for helping to get a raise in milk-price supports after a dairy cooperative made a big contribution to Nixon's re-election campaign. The Government is also looking into possible violations involving dairymen's contributions to the 1972 presidential campaigns of Democrats Hubert Humphrey and Wilbur Mills...
...poured $8 million to "destabilize" the Allende government and to bribe Chilean congressmen to vote against Allende...
...offices, a process that takes about three hours. A Tehran resident, complying with the law by paying an additional $1.20 tax assessment not long ago, had to try for nearly a month before he found the appropriate offices and could fill out the proper forms. "A thousand-rial [$13] bribe would have settled it in three minutes," he said bitterly...