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...foreign policy that so thoroughly embraces as friends corrupt and reactionary political figures cannot be easily cleansed. Too many people are soiled. The elimination of a secretive body such as the 40 Committee is hardly a safeguard against the continuation of activities similar to the once-covert ones in Chile. The real place to begin is with the members of that committee, particularly its chairman, Henry A. Kissinger '50, who directly authorized the expenditures by the CIA in Chile. His activity in this affair was but one move toward making the world safe not for peace but for the protection...
Castriotta, whom tenant groups have accused of shady and corrupt practices in CHA matters, announced August 26 that she would leave the housing authority because of poor health. Speaking to reporters from her bed in Cambridge City Hospital, Castriotta said she had suffered two heart seizures and had been advised by her doctor to leave the CHA before her five-year term expires in October...
...bountiful stockpiles of PX goodies and military equipment have disappeared in South Viet Nam, along with U.S. troops. This has left corrupt South Vietnamese officers without their usual black-market revenues. But the continuing war offers other opportunities for the unscrupulous, as TIME Correspondent Barry Hillenbrand learned last week. His report from Saigon on the latest twists of turpitude...
Amnesty for Nixon would weaken America's ability to protect itself from corrupt officials. If he is guilty he should be convicted of his crimes, not only to provide a deterrent example and emphasize that no man is above the law, but also so that historians can never portray him as a martyr hounded out of office by political enemies...
...Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod we have known is dead. The institution that has given us life is no more. Its structures are hopelessly corrupt. Its leadership is morally bankrupt. Its rank-and-file members have chosen to ignore and overlook evil...