Word: illing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ALEXANDRIA, Va--A Navy official and a major defense contractor pleaded guilty yesterday to charges in the "Ill Wind" Pentagon procurement case, with the Navy man admitting he took a bribe to provide inside information on a contract...
...Republican party leadership is changing. Reasonable politicians like House Minority Leader Bob Michel (R-Ill.) and Madigan are out, and ruthless political hotshots such as Gingrich, Republican National Committee Chair Lee Atwater and Republican National Congressional Committee head Ed Rollins are in. These people are largely responsible for the sludge-throwing contest American politics has turned into today...
More than two years after it began, the Justice Department's investigation into the Pentagon bribery scandal, code-named Ill Wind, may finally be poised to blow in some major indictments. Charles Gardner, a former top executive of Unisys Corp., pleaded guilty last week to bribing former Assistant Secretary of the Navy Melvyn Paisley in return for Paisley's help in winning at least $194 million in contracts on the Aegis electronic-warfare system...
Fontaine remembers a conversation with Anderson. Feeling ill and more depressed than usual, he had turned to Anderson and said, "Terry, I am not afraid to die. But I don't want to die here and have them throw my body into the sea like they did with Buckley...
...prejudices are further unsettled by his growing interest in Aloysius Prettiman, a figure of caricature in the earlier books but now a man, seriously ill, who attracts Talbot's sympathy. Prettiman, a political radical, and his new wife are transporting a printing press with which they hope to stir change in the convict colony. Talbot reprimands stiffly: "And you, sir, travelling with the avowed intention of making trouble -- of troubling this Antipodean society which is created wholly for its own betterment!" Yet the young Englishman could become dry tinder for Prettiman's incendiary rhetoric: "Imagine our caravan, we, a fire...