Word: corrupters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into their brocaded belts. They were followed by camel troops, native levies in skirts and armed with muskets dating back to Napoleon, and new army recruits in crumpled khaki uniforms. From the second-floor window of his headquarters, the architect of the revolution, Brigadier General Abdullah Sallal, cried: "The corrupt monarchy which ruled for a thousand years was a disgrace to the Arab nation and to all humanity. Anyone who tries to restore it is an enemy...
...week found Strongman Sallal in his San'a home, sitting shoeless on a mattress, surrounded by fellow officers, adding an occasional cigarette butt to the litter of orange peels on the mosaic floor. Sallal offered a justification of his coup, which turned mostly on reminiscences of the incredibly corrupt and backward rule imposed on Yemen by the gross, 300-lb. Ahmad the Devil...
...plugging a ten-point "program of recovery," which ranges from new state programs for community colleges, commuter transportation and middle-income housing to "unceasing effort to improve the industrial climate of Pennsylvania to entice more industries and thus more jobs." He promises that state agencies will help "eliminate corrupt city government in Philadelphia." On the touchy patronage issue, Scranton pledges that he will push to expand civil service. With characteristic bluntness he adds: "I don't know of a single county leader in either party who shares my views on this." He maintains that he can save millions...
...have had it with aristocracies. Corrupt, sleek, lascivious queer or cruel, Italian, French or Spanish, they all amount to the same thing on the screen: vacuity writ large. But the most banal set of all lives in Argentina. Its members are as vapid, unsophisticated and coarse a covey of brightly feathered birds as I have seen in film. Leopoldo Torre Nilsson (director of End of Innocence) records their antics in Summerskin, a cheap and pretentious story in the worst possible taste...
...papacy. This council, like the forthcoming Vatican Council, was convened by a Pope John XXIII; since historians now agree that he had not been validly elected, the present Pope was free to use the same numerals. The Council of Trent (1545-63) was a belated effort to reform the corrupt Catholic practices-notably, the traffic in indulgences-that Luther and Zwingli had criticized. A few Protestant theologians actually appeared at Trent in the winter of 1551, but, as Luther himself remarked: "The remedy comes too late; it will not achieve its purpose." The fathers of Trent went on alone, passed...