Word: corruptable
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...Russians try to take over West Berlin. It is all right to send Marines to the Dominican Republic to prevent a Communist takeover. It is all right to wage an endless war to make sure that the authoritarian North Vietnamese don't get the better of the corrupt and grafting South Vietnamese...
...explained that this task force, composed mostly of former FBI men, had succeeded in bringing about 50 grand-jury indictments of Cosa Nostra members and corrupt public officials during the past four years of his term. But he added that "the irrelevancies and inadequacies of the criminal justice system" made it difficult to bring these indictments to fruition...
Marcos is bedeviled by enough real troubles without having to worry about imaginary ones. The November election was corrupt even by Philippine standards: just before the balloting, the government parceled out some $50 million in "local development funds" to thousands of barrio (village) leaders in $500 packets...
...French colony is one of the world's poorest countries, with 3,500,000 people and a yearly per-capita income of $40. For more than five years, northern Arabs have been ravaging cotton fields and raiding government offices in the south in an effort to topple the corrupt but pro-French regime in Fort-Lamy. Paris is so disturbed by the rebel threat that, as part of its recent Mirage-jet deal, it won Libya's promise not to support the Arab struggle in Chad...
...action, in brief, was this: Joe Mayflower-Alsop (played by Arlene Francis's husband, Martin Gabel) visits a minor-minor American embassy high in the Himalayas which is corrupt but quite content. Joe sticks his famed journalist's ear to the ground and the drums tell him "this place is boiling underneath. I can feel...