Word: corruptable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thieu's land-reform program has already given much of the peasantry reason to back him. He has done little to reform Saigon's corrupt bureaucracy and has openly disregarded democratic processes, but he nonetheless might be a match for his Communist adversaries...
...regime. By the scores refugees are heading out of Phnom-Penh and into new havens on the other side. Others are waiting for the bombing to stop on Aug. 15 before they join the exodus. Many of the middle class now would seem to welcome the end of the corrupt government of Lon Nol. "The first thing the insurgents will do is shoot the profiteers and the corrupt people," says one Khmer, "and that will be a good move...
...conditions created under Spanish colonial exploitation and perpetuated by a rawly opportunistic and corrupt ruling class itself under the thumbs of Norteamericano gangsters and businessmen did make life indefensibly miserable for the majority of Cubans. The present regime has made astounding and laudible progress in eliminating hunger, disease, illiteracy and social injustice...
...coming uncontrolled and so fast, forces people to deal with this disillusionment younger and earlier. Now they grow up bombarded with issues, and this is a large, if not overwhelming, burden for any adolescent. I don't know if I could have dealt with drugs, an immoral war, a corrupt government, and puberty. But whether I could have or not, the fact that I didn't irrevocably removes me one generation from those...
...rare occasions, Safire has sharply jabbed his ex-boss. After Nixon's May 22 statement disclosing the widespread use of domestic eavesdropping under the cloak of national security, Safire wondered: "At what point does the defense of our system corrupt our system?" When it was revealed that the President had taped his office and telephone conversations, Safire criticized Nixon's "horrendous blunder...