Word: forme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Special Forces. More than 2,000 Cubans are on loan to African nations other than Angola. Troops provided by Havana form part of President Sékou Touré's bodyguard in Guinea. Cuban bureaucrats supervise government operations in both Equatorial Guinea and Somalia. In Tanzania, 500 Cubans are reportedly training guerrillas to harass the Rhodesian government. In the Congo (Brazzaville), 150 others form a rear echelon for Angola; in Guinea-Bissau, says a grateful government spokesman, "they showed us how to make the terrain work for us and against the Portuguese...
...Some form of anti-bribery legislation would also open the way for much more vigorous probes into company books by such agencies as the SEC, the Justice Department and the IRS. Company records relating to possible bribery would be much easier to obtain. Accountants might well be prompted to be much more inquisitive about overseas payments by companies they audit and to report any evidence of bribery. They seem to have been singularly incurious about the foreign accounts of some companies that were later found to have made payoffs; they would have an incentive to look harder if they knew...
...obvious requirements for such exchanges, but sometimes the methods are astonishingly unsubtle. Part of the $7 million paid by Lockheed to Yoshio Kodama, the company's secret agent in Japan, arrived in yen-filled packing crates. Some of the rest was passed a bit more discreetly, in the form of checks made out to "bearer." Still, Kodama signed receipts for the equivalent of $2 million, and translations of the receipts were among documents given to a Senate subcommittee by Lockheed's auditors, Arthur Young...
Still, effective policing of Medicaid cannot be achieved without help from Washington. In a report issued this week, subcommittee investigators urge that states be required to license laboratory owners and operators. They suggest that the same billing form be used by a doctor ordering a test and the lab performing it. In this way, the lab would not be able to inflate the bill...
...Atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair. But the first edition of Who's Who in Religion published by Marquis Who's Who, Inc., seemed most notable for the names that did not appear in its list of 16,000 people who "demonstrated merit in some form of religious activity." Among those not present: Roman Catholic Bishop Fulton J. Sheen; Unification Church Founder the Rev. Sun Myung Moon; Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum of the American Jewish Committee; and Manhattan Clergyman Norman Vincent Peale, whose "positive thinking" books have sold more than 5 million copies...