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...Program. Suharto faces a tough battle against corruption, for Indonesia, like most Asian countries, finds graft and payoffs an almost necessary way of life. Loyalties belong first to family and friends, with the country running a poor second...
...wall) between two of the heart's chambers was torn. Only a decade ago, there would have been little hope for the victims, but that is no longer true. In all four cases surgery was successful-including two instances in which the aorta was patched with a Dacron graft...
...well as peace demonstrators. Leary has been unable to change hidebound promotion policies that, critics charge, still give credit for blood donations but not for educational advancement. Because the finest stubbornly protect one another, Mayor John Lindsay recently appointed a special citizens' commission to investigate the extent of police graft ?and thereby provoked the patrolmen's association into trying to block the probe in court...
...remaining in South America. Little more than a decade ago, the country writhed under the dictatorship of General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, who was installed by the country's civilian and military leadership in 1953 to help bring an end to la violencia that eventually claimed 200,000 lives. Graft and jack-booted brutality characterized his regime. One memorable day in 1956, when Rojas' banner was raised in the Bogota bullring, squads of plainclothes police with knives and billy clubs closed in on spectators who failed to applaud. After a wave of popular revulsion, a junta sent the general...
...Graft, inefficiency and official indifference are epidemic. When a reporter last week questioned Marcos about incidents of police brutality during the riots, Wife Imelda answered: "What can you expect when all we can pay a policeman is 180 pesos [$45] a month? Of course you get barbarians...