Word: corruptable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bill is a product of the Nixon Administration, prepared under the aegis of Attorneys General Mitchell and [Richard] Kleindienst. The objective of the draftsmen," Countryman said, "was to restrict individual liberties in order to preserve the secrecy of the Nixon Administration's corrupt policies...
...Corrupt Practices. Convoking Parliament, however, is not without risks. To many, the session will seem a travesty so long as most of the leaders of the opposition remain jailed. Moreover, with freedom of speech guaranteed on the floor of Parliament, the remaining members of the opposition and perhaps even some Congress Party members may dare to criticize the Prime Minister's authoritarian acts...
...Gandhi must also worry about how the Supreme Court will rule on her petition to reverse a lower-court decision finding her guilty of corrupt practices during the 1971 election campaign. The ruling by the court is expected in one to three months. If she loses her appeal, she will be ordered to resign her seat in Parliament-and hence as Prime Minister. In this case, however, the Election Commissioner is expected to set aside the ruling that Mrs. Gandhi must forfeit her seat. By then, Parliament will probably have indefinitely extended the state of emergency, which would enable...
Elusive Reality. There has been much talk in Port-au-Prince about the need for agricultural development, especially in reforestation and irrigation. Unfortunately, development plans usually get bogged down in the dusty corridors of one of the world's most uncaring and corrupt bureaucracies. The Duvalier family alone skims at least $6 million a year from the government's revenues-about one-fifth of the country's entire budget-while Jean-Claude recently inaugurated a huge $3 million mausoleum honoring Papa Doc. "We live only in fantasies; reality eludes us," Publisher Dieudonne Fardin recently complained in Haiti...
...based in part on very cheap labor. The average Korean worker receives a starting pay of about only $45 a month, and for that he has to work six days a week and often more than ten hours a day. There has also been a degree of profiteering by corrupt officials, though not an excessive amount compared with some other countries in Asia. In any case, despite these inequities, almost everybody has benefited from Korea's economic growth and, as TIME Correspondent William Stewart reports from Seoul, there is an expectation of still better things to come...