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Word: corrupters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Marcos has been unable to get through the laws that he needs to attract money from abroad. His plan to distribute land to the peasants has run aground on the obduracy of the landlords and the ineffectiveness of his own administrators. He has made some headway in rooting out corrupt officials in the customs bureau, thus cutting down on smuggling losses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines: A Bothered Archipelago | 6/2/1967 | See Source »

...Corrupt Practices Act makes political contributions by corporations to federal officeholders illegal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: The Undoing of Dodd | 5/5/1967 | See Source »

...separate section of Saturday's report treated the problem of police corruption. The commission equivocated on the "extent of police dishonesty," but detailed corrupt practices like rolling drunks and accepting bribes from prostitutes. They said the instances of unethical conduct were made more numerous because police departments tend to assign their most incompetent officers to slum areas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Report Criticizes Racial Prejudices Of U.S. Police | 5/1/1967 | See Source »

Though the U.S. has cut off direct aid to Duvalier's corrupt regime, he also has little to fear from the outside. In the past year he has repaired his relations with the once hostile Dominican Republic, thanks largely to the fact that he once granted asylum to President Joaquin Balaguer. He also made his peace with the Roman Catholic Church in October by participating in a four-hour ceremony inaugurating the first native Haitian archbishop and four new Haitian bishops. The Vatican in return sent a new Papal nuncio and lifted Duvalier's earlier excommunication...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti: The Birthday Blowout | 4/28/1967 | See Source »

...join the nine-man committee set up to examine Powell's sins and recommend whether the Harlem leader should be seated. Conyers knew that Congress was in a nasty mood over Powell's behavior -- indignant over Powell's bravado and scared over increasingly widespread feeling that Congress was generally corrupt...

Author: By John A. Herfort, | Title: John Conyers Jr. | 4/28/1967 | See Source »

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