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Japanese Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa won a powerful victory when the lower house of Japan's parliament passed his four-bill reform package. The country's notoriously corrupt political system will undergo a major overhaul if the bills are passed by the parliament's upper house, as expected. Among the changes are a switch to single-member constituencies and a ban on corporate campaign donations to individual politicians...
They may be insulting; they may also be true, at least as far as Carey himself is concerned. Outwardly, Carey is a zealous reformer who swept into office two years ago in the first democratic election in Teamster history and pledged to revitalize the country's most corrupt union. But the union's hard times have gotten harder; the Teamsters are trucking toward bankruptcy, membership is eroding, and Carey's alleged links to the Mob have observers wondering where his allegiance lies...
Then there is Local 295, which handles freight at New York City's airports. Carey tried to deliver this corrupt local into the control of an old Teamster hand named William Genoese, but Lacey vetoed Carey's choice. The Lucchese family, it was later revealed, had also been trying to place Genoese in a key union post...
When used to help people, spending is good; when used to support waste and militarism, it is bad. We should reduce our current deficit, insofar as it is caused by defense spending, unnecessary entitlements for wealthy retirees, and corrupt subsidies. But we should be prepared to spend that much and more to solve the problems that lie ahead...
Perot's distrust of Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari's promise to increase wages in Mexico also betrays his belief in Mexican corruption. He regularly points out that Mexican workers earn one-seventh what U.S. laborers make. But he dismisses President Salinas' commitment to raise the minimum wage as Mexican productivity increases, suggesting that Salinas is corrupt and untrustworthy...