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...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...
Fedders had a history of "black moods," and these apparently were exacerbated by a 1982-83 federal grand jury investigation of Southland, the Dallas-based operator of 7-Eleven. Southland was accused of attempting to bribe state officials, and Fedders was questioned about his role in helping the company conduct an internal investigation, which failed to turn up any wrongdoing...
...Both the chemicals and the building were apparently owned by Colombia's Ochoa clan. Shortly afterward, Julian Melo, the general secretary of the Panamanian National Defense Forces High Command, was arrested, accused of allowing the Colombians to transport the ether through the country in exchange for a $2 million bribe. Melo was never prosecuted, however, and many Panamanians assumed that he was merely a symbolic victim sacrificed to appease / Washington. "It stretches the imagination," said a Western diplomat in Panama, "to think that nobody but Melo could have been aware of the dealings...