Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cabinet of incoming President Carlos Saul Menem. Roig's successor, businessman Nestor Rapanelli, 60, had been on the job only three days last week when newspaper reports disclosed that a judge in Venezuela had put out a warrant for his arrest in connection with a $6 billion trade-fraud scheme...
...today. A few decades ago, the clay feet -- frostbitten, of course -- were those of polar explorers. Wally Herbert, who reached the North Pole by dogsled in 1969, writes knowledgeably about two of the most fascinating of the fakers: Robert E. Peary and Dr. Frederick Cook, archrivals in heroics and fraud...
Kemp spent much of the rest of the week back among his former colleagues on Capitol Hill, fielding tough questions from two House subcommittees probing the scandal. For the first time, he put a price tag on the loss to taxpayers from the fraud and mismanagement under former HUD Secretary Samuel Pierce: $2 billion. At least half of that appears to have been siphoned from a six-year- old program in which the Federal Housing Administration, an arm of HUD, shares the insurance of housing projects with private companies...
Those words had a hollow ring in the state of Michoacan, where the results of the state legislature's race -- another of the five state elections held last week -- remain hotly contested by Cuauhtemoc Cardenas and his Democratic Revolutionary Party (P.R.D.). The old pattern of fraud and stolen elections seemed to be reasserting itself as the P.R.I. claimed to have won ten of the 18 electoral districts while the P.R.D., alleging widespread irregularity, insisted that it had carried 15 districts. At a press conference on election day, Cardenas accused the P.R.I. of cheating by changing the location of the casillas...
...Ruffo victory is nevertheless regarded as a crucial turning point for the seven-month-old presidency of Carlos Salinas de Gortari and a watershed in Mexican politics. Salinas, who took office amid charges that he was elected by fraud, vowed that "opposition victories will be respected." He has led a forceful campaign against corruption by arresting powerful drug lords, businessmen and labor leaders. Yet he is still perceived as someone elected by and for the Establishment. The P.R.I.'s acceptance of defeat in Baja is considered a critical test of Salinas' ability -- and desire -- to enforce reform within...