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...country's 63 universities or 800 technical institutes. Competition is especially stiff for the top universities of Moscow and Leningrad and the Institute of Foreign Relations. To help get their children through the rigorous entrance exams, many parents hire private tutors at five rubles ($7.65) an hour. Others bribe admissions officers. In a case reported by Izvestiya last month, the woman in charge of a scientific prep school in Tomsk got an eight-year prison sentence for selling admissions. According to Izvestiya, she "accepted almost anything as a bribe, from mink coats to pails of berries...
...Quietly or Else is Agnew's firsthand account of how the liberals did him in. Take for example his recollection of what federal law enforcement authorities described as a $2500 cash bribe paid Agnew while he was Vice President: "I want to give you a campaign contribution, but I need your help in getting some work," Agnew remembers his friend as saying. "I will recommend you and do what I can to help you, but I have no control over awarding work," Agnew remembers replaying. "He seemed satisfied," the ex-Maryland governor remembers, "and arrangements were made...
...doubts about whether ERA supporters could ever get the crucial two votes. Matijevich angrily accused Thompson of having "provided virtually nothing." Republican representatives booed noisily. The next day, Thomas Hanahan, a Democrat from rural McHenry, who once described feminists as "braless, brainless broads," accused ERA supporters of attempting to bribe waffling legislators with offers of big campaign contributions; he provided no evidence. Proponents accused him, in turn, of trying to frighten fence sitters into opposing the amendment...
...more sordid picture of the blandishments of Saratoga emerged in a Brooklyn courtroom last week. Testifying in the race-fixing trial of onetime Jockey Con Errico, 58, another ex-jock, Ben Feliciano, described a bribe attempt at Saratoga in the summer of 1974. Feliciano was riding in several races that day. He had gone to the toilet in the jockeys' dressing room when an unknown man walked into an adjoining stall. The man shoved an envelope containing a wad of bills across the tiles, told Feliciano that the money was his if he would simply "hold" -rein...
...Still, the constitutional obstacle remains formidable: Deputy Assistant Attorney General Irvin B. Nathan, in giving the model but faint praise, called it "as constitutionally sound as possible, given its wide range." In congressional testimony Nathan went on to list the statute's potential drawbacks: invasion of privacy, increased bribe taking, and hard-to-obtain convictions...