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East bloc athletes and artists are so eager for a taste of capitalist comforts that they sometimes bribe officials in the state talent agencies to secure foreign contracts. Small though the performers' share of the fee may be, it is often enough to buy a Western automobile and finance a princely standard of living when they return home. But most who venture west seek fame as well as fortune. "In Poland I would pass my whole career almost unknown," says Polish Tenor Dariusz Walendowski, 32, an operetta singer who pays the Polish government's Pagart agency 15% of his average...
...federal police. Though the U.S. has no record of the conversation, DEA officials suspect that Ibarra was being asked to approve Caro Quintero's departure. Pavon Reyes, one of the officials indicted last week as an accessory, was convicted by Mexico in 1986 of taking a $261,000 bribe for turning Caro Quintero loose; he was released last May. Ibarra has never been charged with a crime but resigned amid scandal...
Some of my friends have told me that there are advisor-type people I can talk to about my problems here at Harvard, Ms. Assistant, but frankly if that means paying a bribe I'm afraid I just don't have a whole heap of moola. So I'm writing to different Harvard graduate schools to see if I can't get a better price for a Harvard affiliation from one of them...
Giuliani also said that there have been more prosecutions of white collar criminals, including insider traders, bribe-takers, and perpetrators of securities fraud...
When the jury foreman announced the verdict, "Not guilty," the former Democratic candidate for Vice President broke into tears. Geraldine Ferraro's husband John Zaccaro was cleared last week of charges that he solicited a bribe from a cable-television company seeking a franchise in Queens, N.Y. Acquittal was assured when the key witness against Zaccaro refused to implicate him in a bribe attempt...