Word: corruptability
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jersey's Casino Control Commission, the New Jersey legislature and the Philadelphia city council. When the FBI sting ended, its supervisors alleged that the honey pot of Arab money had attracted one U.S. Senator, seven members of the House and two dozen state and local officials or their corrupt cronies-all stung by facing possible charges of accepting bribes or being caught in an illegal conflict of interest...
...business generally ranks lower than Congress.) Until the Abscam evidence is finally evaluated in the courts-and no indictments are anticipated in less than three months-cynics can say that their suspicions have been justified: all too many legislators are heedless of the national interest and also personally corrupt...
...moved away from the routine investigations of bank robbery and car theft that were popular under J. Edgar Hoover, it has plunged into the far more complex world of organized and white-collar crime and corrupt politicians. Evidence is much harder to obtain, cases that will stand up in court are much harder to build. So the agency has increasingly resorted to stings to produce the strongest possible proof of a crime. But police infiltration of the criminal world has always been a touchy area. Undercover agents often necessarily become parties to the commission of crime; so do paid informants...
...disagree that many of the SAVAK agents have been justly punished by Khomeini or that some members of the past regime were corrupt. But for Rev. Kimball to say "almost everyone had a brother or father who had been taken away or could pull up his pants leg and show burn marks and say "Look what SAVAK did to me'," is a very one-sided, general and unsupported remark for a man who was only in Iran 11 days. There are 35 million Iranians. How many did he meet? What Rev. Kimball saw was only what he was scheduled...
Havana on the eve of revolution: Batista's people clinging to their corrupt ways; Castro's men closing in on the cap ital; and Sean Connery, as a soldier of fortune, flying in to try to help the govern ment turn the tide. Sounds lively...