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...behest of the King himself, NARC's 24-man junta moved swiftly to set up Prime Minister Tanin and an 18-man Cabinet of soldiers, civil servants and technocrats as a "clean hands" government. Among its first official acts was the appointment of a committee to probe graft. As Army Secretary Kriengsak Chamanan, NARC's éminence grise, told TIME Correspondent William McWhirter, "We have learned the lessons of South Viet Nam and Laos. In those countries, corrupted politicians were a main cause of their downfall." It remains to be seen, though, if the committee will be able...
...scandal seems to have acquired a quality of indestructibility. Even when the charges of corruption are officially denied, they keep reappearing as rumors and innuendoes. Last week, as the scandal once again rippled across Europe, a parliament debated whether to prosecute a prince, a Premier was publicly accused of graft, and a former Defense Minister repeated his assertions that he had done nothing wrong. The only certainty was that the Lockheed Aircraft Corp., the largest defense contractor in the U.S., has admitted spending some $24 million in bribes overseas. Where it all went, nobody seems to know-at least nobody...
CHRISTOPHER ("KIT") BOND, 37, popular Governor of Missouri, who would bring to the ticket a fresh face, unscarred by scandal-and not identified with Washington. Bond has trimmed Missouri's 87 state agencies to 14. Wealthy, self-assured, he has successfully fought against graft, and is so middle-of-the-road that both Reagan and Rockefeller have campaigned for him. Liabilities: limited experience and the fact that his elevation to the ticket could cost the G.O.P. the governorship...
...Professor, along with most Americans, envision as the mainstay of the Italian economy, have indeed contributed to an economic boom; one which has served only to widen the gap between rich and poor in Italy. The greatest amount of American "aid" has probably been CIA payoffs, Lockheed graft, or similar bribes to the ruling political structure, the Christian Democrats. This money promptly crossed the frontier into Swiss banks. Italy is still poor, though the politicians who populate the pages of Berlinguer and the Professor are rich. Including Berlinguer...
Thanks for telling us about the graft in Colombia. Now we want the names of the grafters for our tribunals...