Word: corruption
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the beginning, President Mohammed Ayub Khan has emphasized that his aim is to improve efficiency in administration. The emphasis is twofold: (1) tackling the major problems; and (2) on service to the people. Persistent interference by locally influential, corrupt politicians which obstructed the execution of well-formulated policies has died. It is hardly relevant to criticize the new cabinet of talented and practical men on grounds of "political inexperience." Inside Pakistan, stagnation has given way to a new vitality and resignation has changed to constructive puposefulness...
...three Council members appointed two weeks ago as a committee to investigate the charges of "illegal procedure" and corrupt election practices involved in the NSA referendum reported that they acknowledged "infractions in some of the Houses, but felt that the sum total was not enough to warrant a College-wide re-vote...
...state of Pakistan, Ayub is understandably proud of a fighting force considered the best east of the Suez. So are his countrymen. If you ask them to tell you about their country, most Pakistanis will begin with their army rather than their feudal agricultural system, ramshackle economy, or spectacularly corrupt politics. Today, however, as chief of the new military dictatorship of Pakistan, General Ayub finds himself, and his army, in the midst of politics...
...raised in 1957), highway scandals (during the administration of Handley's predecessor, George Craig), right-to-work (last fortnight Handley went all out for right-to-work). Handley is throwing the book at his opponent, Evansville Mayor R. (for Rupert) Vance Hartke, 39, accusing him of running a corrupt administration in his home town and of being a tool of U.A.W.'s Walter Reuther. Newspaper polls show Hartke ahead, but Handley gaining fast and within overtaking distance...
...civil or military, to file an inventory of their movable and immovable properties, as well as those of their wives and children. If any should make false statements or refuse to answer, their properties would be confiscated by the government. The idea, he explained, is to "chuck out all corrupt officials." And he promised future bills, probably including a long overdue one for limiting land ownership in Iran and breaking up the vast feudal properties. Why was the Shah doing this to them? demanded the harassed and injured politicians. The Shah's reply: "I have a ten-year program...