Word: corruptability
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other side, the videotapes the FBI took of Myers' sessions with the phony Arab businessmen should take its toll. The voters have never before been able to observe their congressman in the act of sealing a corrupt deal and the visceral impact should be far more damaging that the second hand accounts from hearings of politicians charged with scandal in the past...
While serving as the Times' Nairobi bureau chief, Lamb chronicled eight wars that raged across the continent, involving 15 African nations. He reported on corrupt Zairean president Mobutu, who has enshrined "Mobutuism" as his nation's official philosophy, and on Idi Amin, who for eight years ruled Uganda under a system in which "human flesh was cheaper than beef...
...moving into exports despite the continuing plethora of U.S. laws and regulations that make it difficult to do business abroad. Last month the Carter Administration sent a hefty 250-page report to Congress on the various ways the U.S. discourages exporters. One example: the provisions of the 1977 Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which have never been clearly spelled out by the Justice Department. American businessmen complain that they are uncertain about what the law considers illegal bribes and what it regards as acceptable payments to local agents. Complains Lawrence A. Fox, vice president of the National Association of Manufacturers...
...past ten years, as the editor of the Buenos Aires Herald, Cox has been the last holdout--the only editor who will print information criticizing Argentina's military government--information about missing people, about a corrupt system of law, about senseless murders and violence, information about a society gone haywire in its attempt to erase its internal dissent. And he has done so with daily death threats to himself and his family--even threats to his 11-year...
...18th century, when the French Reign of Terror wed murder to freedom. All the revolutions since have sealed the knot, if only theoretically, and somewhere in the modern mind may lie the automatic connection of assassination with something good and hopeful. That would be especially true of places where corrupt administrations are unseated at gunpoint. The assassin states in turn may depend on that connection, trusting that the elimination of ex-employees of defunct governments will be held akin to the expunging of the Tsars...