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Press Campaigns. Three months ago, the Supreme Court of the U.S.S.R. called for "an unwavering struggle against hooliganism," the Soviet euphemism for such personal crimes as mugging, vandalism and drunken brawling. Press and administrative campaigns against juvenile delinquency, illegal firearms, bribery and graft have grown over the past two years. Considering the strict state regulation of Soviet newspapers, there can be little doubt that the news reports reflect the Politburo's concern over the U.S.S.R.'s growing crime rate...
Hardly a week goes by without the report of a large-scale embezzlement or graft. In Tadzhikistan recently, a male employee was sentenced to death for stealing goods worth 130,000 rubles (about $174,000) from a retail store. In Azerbaijan, a man was executed for diverting more than $700,000 worth of state-owned building materials, truck tires, fertilizer and other goods in an elaborate black-market operation...
...were not veteran sleuths or national political reporters and kept them on the story even as it grew. Bernstein, then 28, had been covering Virginia politics. Woodward, 29, an enrolled Republican who had been with the paper only nine months, was reporting on unsanitary restaurants and petty police graft. More experienced investigators like Sandy Smith of TIME, Jack Nelson of the Los Angeles Times, Seymour Hersh of the New York Times, and James Polk of the Washington Star-News were later to enter the arena...
...committee also cast doubts on some of his other work. It discovered that a mouse Summerlin brought with him when he went to S.K.I, as an example of a successful graft was a hybrid rather than inbred species as he had claimed. Thus it was genetically compatible with the animal whose skin it had received, and the fact that the graft took was somewhat less than remarkable. The committee also raised questions about Summerlin's interpretation of some of his earliest attempts to transplant skin between humans. In three of five patients Summerlin treated, the graft has since been...
...department was infested with "systematic, widespread corruption at all levels." The commission report said that the administration of Mayor Frank Rizzo, who rode to political power on his reputation as a tough police chief, had tried to block the investigation and, at the very least, was permissive toward police graft. A special prosecutor has been imported from New York...