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...protect and promote their patented image. But as construction proceeds on Euro Disneyland, which is scheduled to open outside Paris next spring, the French have begun to ask themselves how the presence of Disney's irresistibly American village will affect French culture. Many fear that the theme park will corrupt France's prized national identity by creating what one Parisian theater director predicts will be a "cultural Chernobyl...
...remained so for a while after Gorbachev became the party's General Secretary in March 1985. Yeltsin soon arrived in Moscow as Central Committee Secretary for Construction, and Gorbachev later selected him for the tough task of cleaning up the corrupt Moscow party apparatus. With that job came candidate membership in the Politburo and such perquisites as a marble-lined dacha, a small army of servants and access to special Kremlin consumer stores. Far from being seduced by such luxury, Yeltsin was repelled, and that led to his wildly popular denunciations of high living by Soviet leaders...
NOWHERE has this been more evident than in the "have-not" countries like Jordan, Sudan, Algeria and Yemen, who brazenly contend that their efforts for "peace" were thwarted by the Western inperialists who are now conspiring with us, their corrupt Arab brothers, to demolish the saviour of their pride, their beacon of hope, Iraq...
...President is supported by ordinary Soviets obsessed with the disintegration of law and order. They blame much of the crime on "the mafia," an undefined evil that includes every criminal group from corrupt bureaucrats to clans that deal in prostitution and narcotics. Says Igor Karpetz, former chief of the national criminal police: "Not every band of apartment thieves constitutes a mafia...
ANOTHER YEAR, another set of NCAA reforms. Another step in the right direction. Another small step. If the reforms are enforced, college athletics will be a little less corrupt. They will still be corrupt...