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Mexico's giant national oil company, Pemex, appears to have been a particularly fertile breeding ground for vice. Since coming to office last year, De la Madrid has pursued a vigorous "moral renovation" campaign aimed at stemming the high-level graft that was rampant in Mexico. Last July a judge had former Pemex Director Jorge Díaz Serrano arrested on a $34 million fraud charge. Contrary to custom, Díaz Serrano was not bailed out by political friends, but still sits in Mexico City's Southern Penitentiary, awaiting trial...
Last week's charges certainly made waves in the Bahamas. Opposition leaders demanded an inquiry, while Pindling's government denied the graft allegations, calling them a "criminally conceived conspiracy against the Bahamas...
...tournament uses his name, his picture, shots of his matches for the past six months, what's wrong with McEnroe getting a fee?" For one thing, it is against the Grand Prix rules. Harold Solomon, president of the Association of Tennis Professionals, likens it to political "graft." If a player is assured of a sum larger than the first prize just for showing up, his incentive to win is naturally lessened. Gerulaitis answers brightly, "What's the difference in prizefighting? Say a tennis player gets $100,000 every tournament he plays, do you think...
...reply, the military chiefs concluded that the new Pershing missile was important though not essential. But that answer to Reagan's question, routed first through Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, never reached the President. Instead, Weinberger had an aide, Richard Perle, paraphrase the Joint Chiefs' memo and graft it onto an elaborate Pentagon condemnation of the Nitze-Kvitsinsky plan. A month after the Swiss mountainside tête-à-tête, Nitze and Rostow were chastised by Clark in a memo to Shultz for exceeding their negotiating authority. Clark denies that the memo was a reprimand...
While scandals and rumors of graft are far from new in Boston, the current round of allegations has the White team reeling. Admits one of the mayor's aides: "We're really under fire this time. It's coming from all sides." Summed up White last week airily: "I'd like this to be resolved. It affects our reputation...