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Such is also the claim of Khadga Bir Bikram Shah, editor of a major daily newspaper in Nepal--and brother-in-law of the Nepalese King. A former fellow of Harvard's Center for International Affairs, Shah this year returned home to southeast Asia during the most turbulent period in Nepal's recent past: for the first time in its history, the government of this tiny nation has temporarily released its oppressive clamp on public expression, permitting street demonstrations, political rallies and an uncensored press. In a recent interview, Shah examined Nepalese politics and reflected on his own role...
...Securities and Exchange Commission charges that Textron's Bell Helicopter division spent $5.4 million in foreign kickbacks in ten countries between 1971 and 1978. The largest was the $2.9 million payment to a firm, owned in part by the deposed Shah of Iran's brother-in-law, in connection with the purchase of 489 helicopters for $500 million. The SEC also revealed that Textron, a major defense contractor, spent $600,000 between 1971 and 1978 entertaining Pentagon officials in violation of Defense Department rules...
...case, foreign payments like the one to the firm of the Shah's brother-in-law were not illegal under American law at the time. They were first outlawed by the 1977 Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which grew out of bribery scandals involving Lockheed and other firms. Last week the SEC was still meeting with leading corporate lawyers to discuss possible guidelines pertaining to enforcement rules. Many businessmen and some Government officials challenge the whole concept of exporting morality to parts of the world like the Middle East, where baksheesh, or greasing the palm, is an accepted fact...
...personal consequences of the Pinochet government's systematic repression of its opposition have touched even Harberger's life. His wife's brother, who served as Allende's cultural attache, is now a Chilean poet in exile. He publishes a literary magazine out of Los Angeles-- Literatura Chilena en El Exicilio-- and organizes efforts against the Pinochet government there. Harberger says the government branded his brother-in-law's passport with an L, which means that he can never return to his homeland while the Pinochet junta is in power...
...zero." Moreover, Mehaute said, just about then the tide turned and the current through the channel started flowing south. The implication was that the current would have carried Kennedy toward Edgartown's narrow inner harbor and the shore, not north toward Nantucket Sound. In rebuttal, Kennedy Brother-in-Law Stephen Smith produced oceanographic studies, commissioned by the Senator, showing that the tide had been running north until 1:36 a.m., a few minutes after Kennedy said he began the swim...