Word: corruptable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Common Market border rules made Amsterdam the perfect hub for Europe-wide smuggling. In 1971 gangsters from triads (secret societies) in Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore began infiltrating Amsterdam's Chinatown, forcing merchants and community leaders to help shield their operations. Ironically, many of the operators were corrupt drug cops purged from the Hong Kong police force...
This long and dirty list of corrupt practices and covert activities naturally calls into question the advisability of American economic and military aid to South Korea. It also underlines a number of reprehensible features of American foreign policy in general. First, South Korean covert activities in this country are not unique, nor have they been strictly opposed by the U.S. government. A number of other countries have placed members of their intelligence services here with the CIA's permission. In a recent interview, the Shah of Iran admitted that agents of Savak, the Iranian intelligence organization, have operated with...
...Correspondent Newman justifiably sees himself as one of those individuals. Yet his tactics lean mainly toward humor. In the battle against corrupt English, he clearly believes he serves best not as a guerrilla but as a leader of the loyal opposition, even as a court jester...
...When NARC began arresting "subversives" last month, hundreds began literally running scared-sleeping in a different friend's home every night. To many Thais, NARC's crackdown and its strict press censorship suggested that Seni's paralyzed democracy would be replaced by the kind of lazily corrupt military rule the country had endured in the 1960s and early...
...Lockheed case was, indeed, a sensation, more so in Japan and Western Europe than in the United States. We do live in an interdependent world. But that is no reason to tread lightly in cleaning up the corrupt practices of multinational corporations. There is every indication that instead of incurring the animosity of other peoples, our investigation, disclosure and enactment of remedial legislation engendered admiration abroad. Japan, the Netherlands and others opened their own investigations based upon the initial disclosures of our subcommittee. The results have not been destructive, but regenerative, for nothing saps the confidence of people in their...