Word: corruptable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...United Farm Workers distributed a leaflet during the picketing charging that Gallo "signed phony contracts with the corrupt Teamsters, refusing to hold union elections...
...Brown's main political accomplishment while serving as Secretary of State was to create the impression that he was not a politician at all. He got across the message that most legislators were corruptible, if not already corrupt, and he tarred Democrats and Republicans alike...
...newly released television movie dramatizing the practice of law in an overburdened judicial system. A spectacular torture-murder case provides the usual violent background as a public defender gropes his way through a corrupt legal system--characterized by deals, plea-bargaining, and a labyriathine bureaucracy--in the pursuit of justice for a person he truly believes is innocent. Ch. 4, 8:30 p.m. 2 1/2 hours...
...capital. At home, though, he seemed concerned mostly with the trappings of progress-inspecting new roads and interviewing youths proposed for scholarships abroad. He did little to initiate changes that might have raised Ethiopia from its position as one of Africa's poorest, least literate and most corrupt nations. His failure to act on economic and social problems triggered the military protests last February and led inexorably to his ouster...
...foreign policy that so thoroughly embraces as friends corrupt and reactionary political figures cannot be easily cleansed. Too many people are soiled. The elimination of a secretive body such as the 40 Committee is hardly a safeguard against the continuation of activities similar to the once-covert ones in Chile. The real place to begin is with the members of that committee, particularly its chairman, Henry A. Kissinger '50, who directly authorized the expenditures by the CIA in Chile. His activity in this affair was but one move toward making the world safe not for peace but for the protection...