Word: corrupters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Like corrupt clergymen filthy from their holes...
Closest behind Costa Rica is Guatemala, which has the most heavy Mayan population in Central America. President Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes has succeeded a pair of abbreviated administrations-the Communist-infiltrated regime of Jacobo Arbenz, overthrown in 1954 by Carlos Castillo Armas with U.S. help, and Castillo Armas' corrupt regime, cut off by an assassin's bullet. With quiet humor and calculated eccentricity, President Ydigoras. 64, has made himself a popular figure. Refusing to live in the presidential palace, he has installed himself-along with a twittering aviary, a pet deer and a dwarf footman-in a remodeled museum...
...donned black ties of protest. In Montevideo, Uruguay, a crowd of 100 students gathered outside the U.S. embassy shouting "Murderers," "Assassins," and shaking fists at embassy aides who looked out windows. In Pretoria, South Africa, university students marched to the U.S. embassy, raised a banner reading "American Justice Is Corrupt" (executions for capital crimes in South Africa totaled 70 in 1958). Britain's Manchester Guardian termed the execution an outrage "because capital punishment itself is an outrage, not because of the special circumstances of the Chessman case...
...reform week for Acting President Huh Chung's caretaker government. Everywhere, officials of the old regime were being accused, scorned or arrested. The Ministry of Finance set up screening committees charged with first identifying corrupt tax officials, then ferreting them out. The head of the Bank of Korea revealed that his institution had been used by Rhee officials to get kickbacks on loan applications. The police haul included Kang Hak Lee, chief of all Korea's police, who was charged with embezzling $120,000 from police funds and with printing fake Communist leaflets to stuff in the pockets...
...wrong attitude can be fatal-and there are many failures and near failures loitering in the corridors to prove it. But the successes dominate the scene, and they provide a fascinating contrast with most U.S. novels about organization life: they do not feel guilty about being successful. Power can corrupt, and Snow warns that the new men must guard-and be guarded -against this corruption; but he also knows that someone must exercise power to keep the wheels turning-or to do justice...