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...factions. He is also handicapped by his close ties to the tainted Tanaka. At week's end Nakasone appointed no fewer than seven Tanaka supporters to his 21-member Cabinet. In 1972 Nakasone threatened to sue a Japanese magazine after it charged that he accepted a $2.3 million bribe from Tanaka in exchange for political support. The court action failed to materialize. The charge was resurrected in the press, but without much impact, during the latest leadership campaign. Nonetheless, notes one veteran Japanese political observer of the scandal, "it's the scar on his shin...
...There was a failure initially to recruit nonworking and minority women. Nonprofessional pink-collar workers felt put down. Women who had "made it" economically also felt estranged. When it came to lobbying legislators, ERA supporters could be appallingly inept. In Illinois, a woman offered a legislator a $1,000 bribe. In Georgia, a state representative claimed that he had been propositioned in an effort to solicit his vote. And in Florida, pro-ERA workers banged on doors of legislators' homes at 7 a.m. to hand them literature, a state senator's driveway was painted with pro-ERA slogans...
...Mario Montuoro, cash payoffs usually mean trouble. His accusation that Raymond Donovan was present when a $2,000 bribe was paid to a union leader is at the heart of a special prosecutor's investigation of the Labor Secretary and has prompted Donovan to call him a "damnable, contemptible liar." Montuoro's testimony about misuse of union funds led to the conviction of his union's president on tax evasion charges, cost him his job and reportedly caused a Mafia contract to be put out on his life. All told, his crusade against labor union corruption...
...protest the manner in which the FBI is being brought to task regarding Abscam. If Harrison Williams had refused the bribe, that would have ended the matter for him. I say the FBI did good work. I hope it will continue to uncover dishonest individuals in our Government...
...blackmail and wiretap U.S. Government employees. For example, Shin Beth, the Israeli counterespionage branch allegedly rigged a fake abortion case against a clerk at the U.S. consulate in Jerusalem in an unsuccessful effort to recruit him, apparently in the early '50s. There are accounts of efforts to bribe Marine guards, and in 1954 a hidden microphone planted by the Israelis was discovered in the U.S. Ambassador's offices in Tel Aviv...