Word: cheatings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...major report was drawn up by a six-man commission appointed by Army Secretary Martin Hoffmann to investigate last spring's cheating scandal (TIME cover, June 7). Wrote Commission Chairman Frank Borman, the former astronaut, in a letter to Hoffmann accompanying the 91-page study: "We believe that education concerning the honor code has been inadequate and the administration of the honor code has been inconsistent and, at times, corrupt. The cadets did cheat, but were not solely at fault. Their culpability must be viewed against the unrestrained growth of the 'cool-on-honor' subculture...
...commission did not find fault with the honor code in principle: "A cadet will not lie, cheat, steal or tolerate those who do." However, it urged some sharp modifications of the stern system. At present, it is all or nothing: if a cadet fibs about anything, however trivial, out he goes. But the system has broken down. The commission estimated that far more than the 152 juniors who were dismissed from West Point for cheating on an electrical engineering exam last spring were actually involved...
...believed to have been paid to Tongsun Park by U.S. suppliers of rice to South Korea. Such payments are illegal under the federally subsidized "Food for Peace" program and are being investigated by the Agriculture Department. The KCIA has also coerced Korean businessmen into cooperating in a scheme to cheat the U.S. military procurement agency in South Korea. Bids by Korean contractors have been routinely rigged at meetings that were called "tangos." At these conclaves, the chosen bidder paid a "tango fee," which was channeled to the KCIA. Said Democratic Senator William Proxmire of Wisconsin: "Collusive bidding practices, backed with...
...illustration at random: the patriarch devises a system for beating the weekly lottery. His scheme to fulfill this child-like desire is a transparent cheat any kid could see through. Three blindfolded children select numbered balls from three bags. The patriarch invariably holds the number they choose. (The correct balls are frozen, so the children can feel which ones to pick...
Symbols of the "innocence" of his cheat, the children bear the consequences of his guilt, and he imprisons them. After a while, the children's captivity becomes an international scandal and the Red Cross is called in to inspect the situation. In a panic the patriarch orders the children shipped to the farthest jungles, put on a steamer and blown up. He then kills the men who executed his order--poor kids, he says...