Word: corruptable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...additional 45,000-member constabulary force, it keeps busy fighting the Muslim rebels of the Moro National Liberation Front in the southern Philippines, and the Maoist-led New People's Army mainly in Luzon and the Visayan Islands. In part because of the country's corrupt leadership, Washington analysts grade the Filipino performance and prospects a dismal Cminus...
...Justice Department is also investigating. It could bring criminal charges against the company and some officers for violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and U.S. securities laws...
...must repay them for 400 years of slavery, and send them back to Ethiopia. Harvard's Orlando Patterson, professor of sociology, believes the Rastas can't make it in mainstream Jamaican society, so they isolate and console themselves with a religious illusion which makes them the victims of a corrupt system...
DIED. Joseph Borkin, 67, Washington attorney, economist and author; of a heart attack; in Chevy Chase, Md. A trustbuster with the U.S. Department of Justice from 1938 to 1946, Borkin also pursued his commitment to social justice with such books as The Corrupt Judge (1962) and last year's The Crime and Punishment of I.G. Farben, an expose of the German chemical company that provided Hitler's troops with poison...
Caught off-guard by the depth of hostility to Somoza's corrupt reign, the Carter Administration has floundered in its pursuit of a response. U.S. intelligence officials did produce evidence that Havana has supplied some weapons to the rebels, several of whom were trained in guerrilla tactics in Cuba. Nonetheless, reports TIME Washington Correspondent William Drozdiak, "the obsessive concern with Cuban involvement struck some OAS members as blind paranoia. Panama, Mexico and Costa Rica even discerned a more sinister motive in the ill-substantiated attacks: to find an excuse for robbing the Sandinistas of their victory by sending...