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...recent arrest in Miami by Federal authorities [TIME, Dec. 14], I note that although you recognize that I maintained a democratic government-an honorable and almost miraculous record in these days of "strong men," "people's democracies" and "international hypocrisy"-you characterize that democratic government as "graft-ridden." I will not claim that my administration was 100% free of graft. No administration-democratic or dictatorial-could ever make that sweeping claim, just as no nation could truthfully boast that it is free of crime. What a government can and should do is to combat graft or crime with...
...stop abusing U.S. hospitality. Too busy with his plotting, Prío brushed the hints aside. When the blow fell last week he had just returned from a meeting of opposition leaders in Mexico at which plans for an uprising were reportedly discussed. Prío, whose democratic but graft-ridden government collapsed in a few hours in March 1952, seemed angriest that his arrest would give "comfort and satisfaction to a dictator." If brought to trial and convicted, he could be fined $10,000 or jailed for five years, or both...
...crime reporter on the Detroit Free Press (circ. 394,302) Ken McCormick, 45, picks his own assignments and takes as much time as he needs on them. One assignment he worked on brought the Free Press a Pulitzer Prize in 1945 for exposing legislative graft in Michigan. Last July, McCormick picked another story he thought promising. He went to the State Prison of Southern Michigan to talk to a convict who had written the Free Press that he was innocent. McCormick was skeptical of the prisoner's story, remarked to Warden William Bannan that he had talked to more...
There have been 16 more operations, many of them of surpassing delicacy, to graft tendons from the foot to the hand and connect them with muscles in the boy's forearm. One of the most crucial, done early this year, was a tendon transfer to give Terry an apposable left thumb. It worked. Last week, as the bandages came off after a minor operation, Terry could appose his thumb well enough to hold his fork in his left hand. British style...
...farming to foreign trade, into tight, firmly controlled corporations or syndicates. Though Economist Salazar has won from friend & foe a reputation for selflessness and honesty (he promises to turn his pockets inside out when, and if, he resigns), the system's complexities and red tape have produced much graft. In his Cabinet are 15 ministers, but Dr. Salazar ultimately makes all the hard decisions himself, occasionally lectures government officials, and Portugal's industrial and business leaders with dry, essay-like speeches which he laboriously composes himself...