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...fund that Gardner set up with Unisys money and devoted to bribery and illegal campaign contributions, as well as his personal use. He allegedly replenished the fund by charging the military for consulting work that was never performed -- which would mean that the Pentagon unknowingly supplied the money to corrupt its own officials...
...Mikhail Gorbachev into the Soviet Politburo in December 1985, no Soviet political figure has been as irreverently outspoken about Soviet life or as ambitious to change it as Boris Yeltsin, 58, a heavyset, 6-ft. 2-in. man from Sverdlovsk in the Ural Mountains. Appointed to clean up the corrupt Moscow party committee, he quickly fired hundreds of bureaucrats and barnstormed the city, criticizing food shortages and general incompetence. But his reforming zeal and a bitter public debate with Politburo conservative Yegor Ligachev led to his public censure and ouster from the Moscow party position in November...
...fame and fortune, Bert suffers this affliction as he sings and dances Isn't It Romantic? in an amateur-night competition. Since the attempt to cope with it and finish his number is both hilarious and heartwarming, Bert wins the contest. Next he is hired by the show's corrupt promoter to tour as a perpetual competitor, getting paid only if he beats the authentic contestants. This he can do only by faking the bloody nose night after night...
...Nazis and a plumbing-supply merchant with sidelines in piety and jealous rage lurk there, along with a mastermind whose ends may justify his means but not his perpetual sneer. Youth gangs, corrupt cops, drug smugglers and, yes, some late-model toilet bowls also have their places in a tale whose complexities would devour most actors...
Both shows reflect the way dissent has become domesticated in America; what were radical antiwar views in the '60s are now mainstream TV attitudes. High- ranking officers and other authority figures are mostly buffoons, insensitive martinets or corrupt sleaze balls. Heroism, at least as the military tries to market it, is usually a sham; public relations is the name of the game. A lieutenant in Tour of Duty gets drunk in a bar and empties the place by wildly firing his gun. A few seconds later, a bomb explodes inside, and he is hailed as a hero. Notes a smarmy...