Word: corrupt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Smith as the Politician (who is supposed to be Sen. Joseph McCarthy) gives new meaning to the word corrupt. His Southern drawl oozes with slime and blackmail. Despite his choir boy looks and white summer suit, he has the moral code of a modern-day Mephistopheles...
...said that wealth and authority, however,only expose people's true inner character. "Powerdoes not corrupt, and money does not corrupt, itunmasks," Blades said. "Whether you're poor orrich if you don't have a solid spiritualbackground you'll become corrupted...
...days he sat bent toward a microphone under glaring television lights, a small man with gray hair and rimless glasses who could pass for an apothecary. In fact, Jose I. Blandon had been chief political adviser to one of the most corrupt dictators in Latin America, General Manuel Antonio Noriega of Panama. Testifying before a Senate investigative subcommittee last week, Blandon said Noriega and his henchmen had turned Panama into a "criminal empire," a "gigantic machine" that generated hundreds of millions of dollars through drug trafficking, money laundering and gunrunning...
...drama began as rebellious soldiers seized President Lucas Mangope, 60, from his bed and took him, still in his shorty pajamas, to a soccer stadium. Claiming the government was corrupt, the kidnapers threatened to douse Mangope with gasoline and set him ablaze. Within 14 hours, several hundred South African troops rescued Mangope and restored him to office...
...armed forces. Rising through the ranks, Noriega allegedly created a criminal organization that would be the envy of any Mafia don. The 12,000-man Panama Defense Forces are so much a part of Noriega's criminal empire that U.S. Attorney Kellner considered classifying the entire institution as a corrupt organization. According to investigators for the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and International Affairs, which will hold hearings this week, Noriega demands a cut of almost every crime-related dollar deposited in Panama's 130 banks. Drug traffickers and money launderers who refuse to pay may have their...