Word: fraude
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...Governor. Banker Bert Lance, Butcher's friend and Jimmy Carter's ill-starred budget chief, made the entrées necessary to arrange for $43.5 million in federal subsidies and talked Egypt into participating. Another Butcher friend, Jesse Barr, who was convicted in 1976 of bank fraud, was later hired by the developers of property fronting the fair as their chief financial consultant. Butcher's own bank loaned $1 million to the fair; the bank's former chief executive officer and current counsel is a developer of a nearby parking garage financed with $6.3 million...
...bloodiest and most corrupt regimes in all of Latin America. Lucas García's abrupt exit also meant that his hand-picked successor, General Angél Anibal Guevara, who was elected to the presidency on March 7 amid widespread charges of fraud, would not be taking over next July as planned...
...order to obtain U.S. military aid. They therefore called for fair elections and an end to el continuismo, the old-boy network of senior military officers that has ruled the country for the past 27 years. Instead, the March 7 balloting was marred by numerous irregularities, charges of fraud and the victory of yet another general over three civilian candidates...
...Guatemala, where a guerrilla insurgency has escalated in the past year, General Angel Anibal Guevara Rodríguez was officially confirmed as the country's next President, continuing the rule by right-wingers and the military. But Guevara's election was marred by widespread charges of fraud. Warned one Guatemalan opposition leader: "Something is going to happen here. I can feel it. The will of the people has been mocked one time too many." In Nicaragua, the leftist Sandinista regime declared a state of emergency to counter what it called "aggression directed against our country" by Nicaraguan exiles...
...Mermaid theater, that Steiner thought was "too faithful" to his book. That fidelity made the aging Hitler, played by Alec McCowen, a rigid, then suddenly raucous figure, declaiming a justification of his past. "It is a tour de force ... to freeze the blood," said the Daily Mail. "A dramatic fraud," claimed the Financial Times. U.S. publication of the novel, which is due on April 30, the anniversary of Hitler's suicide, is certain to prolong and intensify the furor...