Word: corruptability
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...being fingered in the press are ranking government and party officials. Reports TIME Peking Bureau Chief Richard Bernstein: "The fact that they are now being publicly denounced on the country's front pages indicates that the top leadership in Peking is stepping up its campaign against venal and corrupt practices within its own ranks, a problem that has long been a major source of cynicism and unhappiness among China's ordinary people...
Columnist Jack Anderson, who specializes in unearthing governmental misdeeds, grades the Carter Administration "a little below normal-less corrupt than Nixon, of course, but more corrupt than Ford, L.B. J. or J.F.K. Perhaps Carter doesn't know any better, maybe it's the way they play politics in Georgia." From the outset Joe Kraft has been unimpressed with Carter, regarding him as an "unstructured mind" incapable of consistent policymaking. In Kraft's view, Carter lacks a political base, which he makes up for by assembling 7% of this group, 14% of another-a "remainder candidate," driven...
...vulnerable young men with intimate reasons to wonder, should they sacrifice their lives fighting Communists pro patria at Khe Sanh when the President of the U.S. would be drinking friendship toasts in Peking and Moscow? Such a morally double-jointed approach to enemies seemed, simplistically but understandably, to be corrupt and treacherous. In addition, the blank finality of nuclear superpower showdown inherently reduces all military endeavor on the dogface level to a humiliating and horrible insignificance; prospective nuclear war, the big bang of the world's demise, also damages an idea crucial to the concept of military service...
...Republic of Korea the events of April 1960 are popularly known as hak saeng uigo-the Righteous Student Uprising. During those turbulent days, the students of South Korea succeeded in doing what their country's politicians had failed to do: they brought down the entrenched, increasingly corrupt twelve-year-old government of President Syngman Rhee and sent the crusty old leader into exile. Today, even the official Handbook of Korea, published under the Park Chung Hee regime hails the uprising unreservedly. "The students," it declares, "had led the people into a democratic revolution...
...they are also guilty as charged is something the jury will decide, perhaps by next month. The charge is almost as long as the trial. Its most important question: Have the defendants violated Title 18 of the U.S. Code, a complicated provision known as R.I.C.O. (for Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations...