Word: corruptedness
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Apparently aware that Thais would not stand for that and reportedly at the behest of the King himself, NARC's 24-man junta moved swiftly to set up Prime Minister Tanin and an 18-man Cabinet of soldiers, civil servants and technocrats as a "clean hands" government. Among its...
Poverty Warriors. How, after all the TV documentaries, after all the "poverty warriors" from the best bureaucracies in Washington and the VISTA volunteers-after all those good intentions and all that matching money -can Caudill's Appalachia be more of a blight today than it was a decade ago...
If this elegiac exhibition of the art of a vanishing race has a leitmotiv, it is an elongated, galloping wooden horse carved by a Sioux and collected by a missionary. Wounded - by a white man's bullet? - the anguished animal seems to be flying forever across thousands of miles...
Opposition newspapers, whose circulation has increased because of war news, are equally sharp. The St. James's Chronicle (circ. 2,000) calls the North ministry the most "obstinately cruel and diabolically wicked" ever to inhabit the earth. The Kentish Gazette daringly writes of the "corrupt influence of the Crown...
This trust in reason is an audacious concept, and never before has a people deliberately set out to establish its political life on a principle so pure. Some argue that it is too pure a principle for fallible men. George III may be wrongheaded, they acknowledge, but the British monarchy...