Word: corrupting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...busy social life and, above all, a sense of freedom. I agree that life in India also involves many struggles. We have serious religious, economic and political conflicts. It is a roller-coaster ride, but that is what makes life in India highly interesting. Rushdie talked about the corrupt politics, the poverty, the strife and the poor attitude of the people. But India has also been responsible for many great minds, philosophers, physicists and artists. India's 50th anniversary of independence is a time to look at the silver lining, not the cloud--a time to fill people with hope...
...within a month. In the past, Arafat has capriciously ignored the council's resolutions, but the charges of abuse of power are badly undercutting his credibility. Says an Arafat aide: "The resolution left Arafat armless. He can't confront the Israeli measures and policies with a corrupt administration and with no public support...
...corrupt people in Mexico were put in a room, who would be left to close the door on them? I do not blame the entrenched P.R.I. or any other political party for Mexico's economic and political struggle. I blame myself and all the other Mexican people who gave up constitutional rights when we began to believe that corruption and favoritism were stronger than our individual voices and the power of the ballot. ERIKA L. MENDOZA San Jose, Calif...
...indeed be branching out. "Hamas has traditionally kept its battle at home and aimed only at Israelis," says Hamad. "In the last year, though, Hamas activists have begun to talk about hitting American targets as well." The reason: U.S. financial support of Yasser Arafat. Hamas sees him as a corrupt traitor who is selling out Palestinian interests to the Israelis. Hamas continues to deny any link to the apparent Brooklyn plot. But Palestinian security officials think the two suspects could be members of a new group, financed by Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden, which takes its orders from Hamas...
Perhaps the hope was always an illusion. After the Siamese-twin government replaced the Vietnamese-installed regime, the chaotic and corrupt new administration accomplished almost nothing except to set up Ranariddh and Hun Sen as competing warlords. The situation became increasingly unstable when Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge, the other pocket of Cambodian power for 19 years, started to fall apart last year in its hidden jungle exile. First Prime Minister Ranariddh, son of venerable King Sihanouk, started negotiations with the disintegrating guerrilla group, offering jobs in his army, which was far smaller than Second Prime Minister...