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Until recently, there was a tradition of official tolerance for the way free-enterprising Georgians cut the corners of Communist economics. A stock figure in Soviet folklore is the Georgian with a suitcase of scarce goods in one hand and a bribe ready in the other. But the scale of Georgian wheeling and dealing grew intolerable to party officials in the Kremlin, mainly because it began to spread, Mafia-style, beyond illegal business deals into politics. "Noxious influences led to corruption, moral and political," admitted a report of the Georgian Communist Party central committee two weeks ago. "Party and economic...
...arrested men was intended only as a joke. That, as Dean saw it, meant that Nixon was trying to cover up that earlier discussion; it contradicted Nixon's later claim that he had actually told Dean that it would be wrong to raise and pay such bribe money. Ironically, it was Nixon's behavior at that session, Dean related, that first led him to suspect their conversations were being taped...
Next he is likely to ask that Ehrlichman's trial be severed from that of the other break-in defendants, a tactic that he has used effectively in the past. On one notable occasion, Ball successfully defended a land developer accused of bribing two L.A. harbor officials; tried separately, the hapless officials were found guilty of accepting the bribes. In recent years Ball has developed something of a side specialty in political bribery cases. "It got so bad for a while," he chuckles, "that my friends would say that politicians wait before taking a bribe to see how heavy...
...present feeling is that Agnew cannot be impeached for what he did as executive of Baltimore County or Governor of Maryland, perhaps even if he continued to receive deferred payments while Vice President for deals made earlier. Only if the evidence should show that he, for example, took a bribe in return for some vice-presidential act or favor could he be impeached. That line of logic gives a new perspective to the expected arguments of Agnew's lawyers that he cannot be indicted unless first impeached and removed from office...
Busy repairmen who cannot be bribed with money to fix a broken washing machine or refrigerator will break all speed records if the bribe is blue jeans, one of the most coveted items in the G.D.R...