Word: corruptability
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...huge mess, there is enough Southern spice and authenticity to keep the film original and diverting. Rudolph has captured a convincingly real sense of the offstage lives, complete with amiable wild-man behavior, recording session, groupies, tour bus talk, and deal-making-and breaking. And the image of a corrupt dise jockey (Rip Torn) who insists. "Payola isn't dead down here--it's not even sick" is candidly refreshing. Although the music segments in the film do not match Nelson's or Kristofferson's "real life" shows, they do impart a pleasant, down-home charge of energy...
...collection of baby killers, or basically honorable men doing their duty when the nation called? Were the soldiers of the peace movement representatives of a uniquely virtuous generation, the most idealistic in history? (The antiwar protests died away when the draft ended in 1973.) Was the South Vietnamese army corrupt and cowardly? (ARVN units did not desert to the other side, and some 240,000 men gave their lives in the fight...
BUTSON IS ALSO left source less and clueless when it comes to accounting for Gorbachev's actions during the reform days of Andropos's brief rule, when Gorbachev's presumably was in sync with the prevailing root--out bourgeois-corruption atmosphere. The high point of this brief period was Andropov's purge of corrupt Brezhnelackeys, who were to upright bureaucracy what Massachusetts State House politics are to democratic government...
Since Enrique Camarena Salazar, an agent of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, was kidnaped last month in Mexico and subsequently murdered, presumably by narcotics dealers, U.S. officials have suspected the complicity of corrupt Mexican police. Last week John Gavin, the U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, announced that at least two of the four kidnapers who hustled Camarena into a car in Guadalajara a month before his body was found were, in fact, policemen of the Mexican state of Jalisco. They had been arrested by Mexican federal authorities and had confessed...
...commission staff study urged more active pursuit of corrupt Mob lawyers, calling for extensive use of electronic surveillance and in some cases even - undercover agents to root out the crooked lawyers. A somewhat stepped-up attack has already begun. One catch was Philadelphia Lawyer Kevin Rankin, who discussed his work for a local Mob family and boasted of being like the consigliere in The Godfather. His listener was an FBI undercover agent posing as a corrupt Miami lawyer, and Rankin is now serving a 54-year term for drug conspiracy. Federal lawmen are also trying to nail lawyers who represent...