Word: corruptable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Early on the morning after the coup, French-educated General Daoud, 65, went on Radio Kabul and announced that he had acted to end the King's "despotic regime" and replace it with a "genuine democracy." He charged that the government had been corrupt and ineffective, and had been heading "toward total bankruptcy." The depth of Daoud's commitment to democracy may be open to question, since he staged his takeover at a time when the King was about to sign a bill permitting formation of political parties. That would have been at least one step forward...
Forced out of the preacher's household because of his romance with the churchman's ward, Ivan turns to running dope for a living. When he attempts to rebel against the strictures of the ganga trade--which lives under the protection of a corrupt government--the penalties grow heavy. Dope brings in high profits for certain middlemen; low wages are paid to the growers, and to the runners as well, who move the stuff between the countryside and the cities...
...industries that were keeping the economy booming. However unpleasant these losses, they were, to increasing numbers of liberals, insignificant beside the effects of the war-influenced inflation and the loss of self-respect contingent on continuing to bomb and kill and die in defense of a corrupt and totalitarian state...
...William E. Hill of Hopewell, Va., charged that the parent denomination is "filled with saboteurs and led by corrupt men who are perverting the Gospel." Oddly, the conservative rebels who depart will do so at a time when conservatives are winning important concessions in the church on the very issues that provoked the split. The Consultation on Church Union, whose interdenominational merger plan conservatives opposed, has been seriously weakened. A vote on an intra-Presbyterian merger with the Northern United Presbyterians has been postponed, and so has another critical vote on adopting a more liberal new confession of faith...
...admonition to critics of the President to slow down a bit. The Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch describes the nation "as caught in a whirlpool of rumors, innuendoes and unsubstantiated charges that threatens to pull it inexorably to the presently unjustified conclusion that Richard M. Nixon is a politically corrupt liar." Arguing that "in damaging the President, we damage the nation," the Omaha World-Herald said: "It will not wash if some element of the press is obliged at a future time to say 'Oops, our source was wrong about the President's involvement.' " Several lonely voices have...