Word: corruptable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...among students, labor leaders and intellectuals. Earlier this month, teachers demonstrated in Ankara to protest conservatism in the university there, while students managed to disrupt or close down every major university in Turkey this past spring. So far this year, 14 students have died in violent demonstrations. "If the corrupt university leadership is not replaced by next term," says one student leader, "there will be more blood spilled. We are not fooling." Despite the increased vigor of the left, the Communists are not one of Demirel's problems, either as an outside threat or as a substantial internal influence...
...Nader's Raider called the CRIMSON from Washington last summer and announced that they had discovered scandals in the Agriculture Department bigger than Billy Sol Estes. He said that half of the Ag Dept, was so corrupt that they'd have to be fired...
...sales tax fronr drugs and medicines, calling them "a tax on pain and misery." His ads sometimes replied to Wallace attacks with such opening lines as "Good grief, Mr. Wallace," which sounds sissified in Alabama. His toughest stand was to charge indirectly that a Wallace administration might become a corrupt one, telling voters that "political hacks are trying to defeat me because they want to get back into your pockets...
...Jean Damidio, a white housewife: "It's a battle for survival." Adds Helen Reichenbacher, the wife of a city policeman: "I've got a $35,000 house. If we get a black mayor, it isn't worth a quarter." Addonizio's trial? "Everyone's corrupt in a job like that," says the policeman's wife. On the other side, Housewife Jennie Smith says: "I'm voting for Gibson because he's black and we've got to support our own." Factory Worker James Simpson puts the same idea more succinctly...
...Nader's Raider called the CRIMSON from Washington last summer and announced that they had discovered scandals in the Agriculture, Department bigger than Billy Sol Estes. He said that half of the Ag Dept. was so corrupt that they'd have to be fired...