Word: corrupt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Democrats tried to win over at least 14 Republicans and thus gain a veto-proof margin. They ended up with 11 GOP senators while losing one Democrat, retiring Sen. William Proxmire (D-Wis.), who was conerned about the bill's changes in the Foreign Corrupt Practices...
Without Hedda on stage, these characters seem to sink into ridiculousness. The passionate pleas of Frost's lovelorn Lovborg seem almost schoolboyish. Judge Brack, played by Nestor Davidson, fares little better. As the insidiously corrupt Brack, Davidson plays up his character with a tad too much joviality. His tendency to toss lines off with Wildean abandon serves only to mar the gravity of his character...
First, responsible criticism knocks the wind out of irresponsible criticism, especially those who liken Israeli soldiers shooting back at rock-throwing Palestinians to Nazis in extermination camps. Martin Peretz, editor in chief of the New Republic, suggests that those who wield corrupt analogies of Jews to Nazis seek to expel the Holocaust from memory by diminishing its significance. That alone would justify our straight talk...
...showdown spotlighted the drug-related crisis of authority that rages through Latin America. Accused of taking million-dollar payoffs in return for allowing narcotics to flow through Panama, Noriega is a graphic illustration of the power of drug lords to intimidate and corrupt the region's governments (see following story). The general is believed to be closely tied to a cocaine trade that begins in the jungles of South America and ends in U.S. neighborhoods from Boston to Beverly Hills. That has helped make Noriega a prime target for U.S. law-enforcement officials and diplomats, who want the general brought...
Call him Gabriel. For eight years he was a consultant for the Direccion Federal de Seguridad, Mexico's internal-security police. Today he is one of the most articulate and useful informants on the drug-related corruption that has allegedly tainted Mexico's law-enforcement establishment. Gabriel overflows with stories of gunrunning, bribery, violence and death, much of it perpetrated by his old agency. Information provided by him has put U.S. investigators on the trail of major trafficking organizations abetted by corrupt Mexican officials. He recently met with TIME Correspondent Elaine Shannon to recount some of his adventures...