Word: corruptable
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Nobody believes the present system will last, not even senior government officials and the regime's own political police. This mentality causes officials, from the senior clergy down to the Islamic militiamen, to be corrupt. Everyone is trying to make as much as possible within the shortest time in order to escape before the day of reckoning. Everything is for sale. Any arrest, court order or verdict is negotiable. When rich people-that is, what's left of them-are arrested for whatever reason, a multiplicity of "family friends" turn up, offering to arrange for their release...
...appear to have any ideological motivation, and many were members of the Kikuyu tribe, which dominates the country's sole political party, the Kenya African National Union (K.A.N.U.). When the insurgents seized Nairobi's Voice of Kenya radio station, they announced the overthrow of Moi's "corrupt and dictatorial" government in the name of a shadowy National Redemption Council. The airmen backed their denunciations with recordings of Caribbean reggae tunes and Viennese waltzes...
...into effect drastic austerity measures, including import restrictions and foreign exchange controls. Nonetheless, the stores of Asian traders in Nairobi were still full of luxury imports available to the economic elite and the more blatantly corrupt members of Moi's own government. Warns one Nairobi businessman: "Unless the government does something drastic to improve the situation, all hell is going to break loose...
...reputed to have married either Barbara Billingsley or Raquel Welch. Eddie Haskell was rumored to be either Porn Star John Holmes (whom he resembles) or the wraithlike Alice Cooper. The collective unconscious of '60s America, resenting and yet longing for the simple verities of Mayfield, attempted to corrupt the suburban paradise...
...Managua's Mercado Oriental: "This is the worst we have ever had it. Everyone is waiting for Edén Pastora." They may have to wait a while. But the spreading disillusionment should put the Sandinistas on notice that political legitimacy does not come from just overthrowing a corrupt regime. -By Sara Medina. Reported by James Willwerth/Managua