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...been slow to punish what it forbade. Not until the 1920s was the first Cabinet-level official convicted of bribery (former Interior Secretary Albert Fall in the Teapot Dome scandal). By the time of Watergate, the anticorruption ethic was so extensive that a number of Nixon officials ended up in jail after hush money was offered to the burglars. Noonan even suggests that the campaign against corruption may now conflict with other standards. Of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, which made it a crime for companies to bribe officials abroad, Noonan remarks that "no such law had ever...
...prosecute the men publicly offered fellow Poles an unprecedented glimpse into the workings of the country's secret police and defused, at least temporarily, the explosive anger over Popieluszko's death. There is speculation that the murder was engineered by government hard-liners to embarrass Jaruzelski and his Interior Minister, General Czeslaw Kiszczak. But the carefully controlled trial left many unanswered questions and the pervasive feeling that the authorities may have protected high-ranking officials from being implicated in the killing. Some Poles believed that - Piotrowski deserved the death penalty, and there was widespread skepticism that the four men would...
...They (the defendants) were extremists just as he (Popieluszko) was an extremist. Thus two extremist attitudes met." Pietrasinski added with subtle cynicism that the aim of the four secret policemen was to discredit Poland's Communist regime. Said he: "They used military uniforms and the financial reserves of the Interior Ministry as if to confirm that terror is being used in Poland. It is known that the kidnaping caused a great resonance. The defendants' act carries all the traits of a political provocation...
Jaruzelski's trip notwithstanding, there was no shortage of drama at the trial. General Zenon Platek, 58, the suspended official of the Interior Ministry assigned to monitor church activities, made the surprising claim that the ministry was aware of a plot to assassinate Pope John Paul II during his 1983 visit to Poland and that several people with explosives were arrested. A Vatican spokesman said last week that he was not aware of such a plot, as did Warsaw's official spokesman, Jerzy Urban. Platek also claimed that just before Popieluszko's murder, the priest was to be dispatched...
...ministry car had been spotted in the city of Bydgoszcz the night of the priest's death. Platek also insisted that the date on a travel permit that Piotrowski had used the night Popieluszko was killed had been altered before it was turned over as evidence in the Interior Ministry's investigation of the crime...