Word: corruption
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proceeding cautiously. Just before his inauguration, Ardito Barletta told TIME that he intends to form a government of "national conciliation" including opposition members. He hopes to stimulate economic growth by offering incentives to Panamanian businesses and to foreign investors. The new President also insists that he will punish corrupt public officials, whatever their rank. Says he: "The first year will be difficult because it will require a change in attitudes, a lot of honesty with the people and a good deal of participation by everyone." And, perhaps, considerable luck...
...Israel's current needs. We [must use more Israeli products.] Even if our girls paint themselves with Israeli-made lipstick our boys will still fall in love with them. I guarantee it. We are not a frivolous or corrupt society, we are a fighting democracy. We spent too much on luxuries, I do not deny it. But your support of Israel is not support for a spoiled child. Back in 1974 we got almost the same $2.6 billion in U.S. aid as in 1984. But over the past decade, the price of a fighter jet has gone from...
...court order to bug conversations and tap telephones at Masselli's meat-packing warehouse in The Bronx. Over six months this produced 892 tape recordings. The mobsters talked about Jo-Pel, the Frascone murder and Democratic officials in New York City and Albany who, they claimed, were corrupt. Donovan was mentioned in various contexts at least six times. The references to Donovan were mostly casual or vague. At one point, Mobster Masselli claimed to "get along good" with Donovan and other Schiavone executives. This could be idle boasting, but it was the kind of lead investigators usually pursue...
...cornerstone of democracy, then the press has certainly inherited the role of vigilante-but it mustn't confuse its mission. It has become masterful at uncovering sleaze, but unfortunately it appears to think it has carte blanche. Surely the public deserves to know which of its national leaders is corrupt, if there is evidence to show it. But it must also be remembered that muckraking makes great headlines and sells lots of newspapers. And this has too often become the primary concern of the would-be sleazebusters and their bosses...
...procedure: the use of criminals as witnesses. The De Lorean case was the Government's third defeat in the past four months in major trials involving witnesses with unsavory backgrounds. Earlier this month, in a Cook County, Ill., case that was part of the Greylord investigation of judicial corruption, Judge John G. Laurie was cleared of bribery and other charges in part because the jury did not believe testimony against him by several corrupt witnesses, including two police officers. And the first trial of Nevada Federal Judge Harry Claiborne ended in a hung jury in April because the jurors...