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This is the first "death" sentence levied since the 1985 N.C.A.A. reforms, undertaken when educators finally panicked at the familiar spectacle of alumni boosters running amuck. Corrupt football practices are not unique to Dallas or the Southwest Conference, though the climate seems perfect there all the year. Three of the nine S.W.C. schools will be on probation this year...
...Vatican Bank scandal had a dramatic opening in June 1982 when Calvi, who was known as "God's banker" because of his Vatican connections, was found hanging from London's Blackfriars Bridge, his pockets stuffed with $13,000 in / various currencies. Later Michele Sindona, the corrupt Italian financier who introduced Calvi to Marcinkus, died in jail after drinking a cup of coffee laced with potassium cyanide...
Alumni recruiting has been a traditional stronghold of the Ivy schools. With thousands of grads across the country--often organized into clubs and organizations--the Ivies saved assistant coaches immeasurable time and effort. Instead of coaches scouring the nation for appropriate talent and corrupt athletic boosters wooing hot prospects, Ivy alumni have established a reputation for fair and effective recruiting through letter writing, phone calling and interviewing. Personal visits, however, are prohibited...
...Borders were abducted by armed men from a Somalian refugee camp. In Africa, civil warfare blocks relief shipments to areas where hundreds of thousands are starving. In Bangladesh, 15 years of foreign assistance has made little measurable improvement in people's lives. Everywhere stories are told and retold of corrupt government officials who rip off assistance before it reaches the needy and of wasteful projects and high living by aid workers amid dismal poverty...
Even without the threat posed by guerrillas, not all Third World aid reaches its destination. Some is skimmed off by corrupt middlemen, some may wind up in the pockets of a country's officials, and still more may spoil or be stolen. "I wouldn't claim that 100% gets exactly where it should," concedes Jean-Pierre Hocke, United Nations high commissioner for refugees. Hocke estimates that up to 10% of relief contributions for refugees never gets to them. Says Millicent Fenwick, the American envoy to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome: "You have to understand that...