Word: crooked
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...wrongdoing rises to defend himself, proclaiming his honesty, years of service and adherence to the rules. Last Thursday it was Jim Wright's turn before the TV cameras. The House Speaker's passionate statement was reminiscent of other notable political apologias: Richard Nixon's I-am-not-a-crook, Ed Meese's They-did-not-indict-me and, most recently, John Tower's I-am-a-man-of-some- discipline. Like the others, Wright's performance only emphasized how much trouble...
...connections betwen Bush and Nixon are sufficiently numerous to be distressing. Nixon himself was a close advisor to the Bush campaign, and the President-elect's aides proudly point to their party's elder crook as the one who gave direction to their campaign strategy. Among the first people President-elect George Bush contacted was none other than Tricky Dick. Former Nixon men, including Fred Malek and Dwight Chapin, played a part in Bush's campaign...
...took to enhance his personal wealth. More important, the Justice Department argued, the Marcoses were being indicted because they plotted with Khashoggi and others to fraudulently conceal their illicit activities after they became U.S. residents. "There was no asylum agreement that Marcos could be just as big a crook in this country as he was in ((the Philippines))," says Loye Miller, spokeswoman for Attorney General Richard Thornburgh. "If he had been a good boy after he got to the U.S., he would not have the problems he has today...
...that Operation C-Chase signals a more aggressive and cooperative international approach to uncovering money- laundering activities and prosecuting banks that, wittingly or not, play the game. Said U.S. Customs commissioner William Von Raab: "The bottom line is that whatever kind of financial institution you are, if you have crooks for customers, then you are a crook." Considering the billions of dollars in narcotics cash deposited every year in banks, that statement undoubtedly put honest bankers everywhere in a heightened state of alertness...
...without water." Her job requires a healthy measure of outrage, something not difficult to acquire in neighborhoods rank with the odor of cesspools and defective septic tanks: in addition to 28,000 people without water in the El Paso area, some 53,000 live without sewer systems. At a crook in the road outside Socorro, the nun pulls the car over and gestures toward a field of white cotton. "The waterlines just stop there. Can you believe it? All these people want is a basic right. They shouldn't have to beg for water...