Word: corrupters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inches in needless glorification of Mitchell's more irrelevant virtues, but in all the report is strikingly solid and--most important--eminently pragmatic. So it is also with an editorial report on what a Citizen's League is doing in the Kennedy-swept state of Illinois: trying to reform corrupt vote-counting practices and to recruit "attractive and competent candidates for all offices...
...politicians. In Ayub's Pakistan, politicking is literally a crime: criticism of his government is punishable by 14 years' hard labor. But under his benign rule, few have actually been sent to the workhouse, and in the nearly three years since he peaceably ejected the squabbling, corrupt politicians in exasperation and took over the government, he has made a spirited assault on Pakistan's multitude of ills...
...teeming refugee slums have been razed; some 100,000 refugees from the bloody division of Pakistan and India were relocated in plain but clean modern colonies. No longer is "tea money" necessary to get in to see a government official. Ayub has made Pakistan's government the least corrupt of any nation on the Asian continent...
...Northern Communists. It is, though, entirely too easy for Ngo to blame all unrest on a baleful Northern influence; he has adopted the habit of labelling all serious opposition to him as Communist, a device which enables him and his Western allies to forget that Vietnamese officials are corrupt, land reform is slow, and many peasants are reported to feel that their interests are no concern of a government that represents city merchants and a bureaucracy...
...came to Sicily in 1952, with no plan and no particular goal, knowing only that men were miserable there. Sicily was then, and according to Dolci is now, living in its own dark age. He began to draw up an indictment of a corrupt and bandit-ridden society of absentee landlords and what he considers the most oppressed rural proletariat in the world; a society where "violence and misery are so written into the order of things that men cannot even dream of change." The indictment took the form of a series of books whose titles tell their own story...