Word: corruptive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Solidarity therefore resolved to overhaul the country's crumbling economic system and to share with the government in running it. "We wanted to make the authorities accountable to society," explained Bronislaw Geremek, Walesa's chief theoretician. As a start, the union decided to attack the corrupt and inefficient nomenklatura system, under which the government chose plant managers not for their skills but for their loyalty to the party. The union's stratagem: force the government to approve a system of self-management for the factories that would allow workers' councils to choose their own managers. Even Walesa was skeptical about...
...legal problems of Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan are deepening A special prosecutor will probably be appointed this week to investigate allegations that Donovan witnessed an illegal payoff by his New Jersey construction firm to a corrupt union official in 1977. In addition, TIME has learned that investigators are looking into the possibility of perjury in Donovan's testimony at his confirmation hearing, when he claimed he had never met New Jersey Gangster Salvatore (Sally Bugs) Briguglio...
...citizens last year." Leonel Gomez, a former official in the land reform program, adds land reform has strengthened the hand of the military, "whose sole concern is for increased U.S. military and economic aid, for increased power, and an increased ability to rule, to kill, and to corrupt." The story of El Salvadoran land reform is the story of a score of other U.S. efforts in other countries--piecemeal change offered when the time for piecemeal change has passed, a last-ditch attempt to keep the ruling elite intact...
Based on interviews with 36 people in Japan and the U.S., the FBI probe of the $1,000 honorarium showed that "there is no evidence that the money was intended for Allen or was kept by Allen for a corrupt purpose." According to the Justice Department's summary of the investigation, Chizuko Takase, wife of a longtime business associate of Allen's, asked his help on the magazine interview with Mrs. Reagan. Allen passed on the request to the Reagan transition officials in charge of scheduling, recommending that the interview be granted if the First Lady...
...defense is expected to mount an attack against Sadat's regime as having been corrupt and repressive, while attempting to show that his killing was justified because he deviated from Islam. "Sadat was a dictator," said Defense Attorney Ragaie Atteya. "He closed all channels of legal recourse. He allowed no democracy or freedom of the press...