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DIED. CHARLES DIGGS JR., 75, 13-term Congressman who left the House in 1980 in disgrace; in Washington. Diggs, a Democrat from Detroit, pushed to increase American aid to Africa and in 1969 helped found the Congressional Black Caucus. In 1978 he was convicted of orchestrating a payroll-kickback scheme, and he was censured by the House in 1979. He resigned the following year...
...home country of Belgium forced Willy Claes to step down from his post as NATO Secretary-General, complicating Bosnian peace efforts. Claes resigned a day after the Belgian Parliament voted to force him to stand trial on charges of corruption, bribery and forgery in connection with a military-contract kickback scandal in the late 1980s, when he was the country's Economics Minister. Claes maintains that he is "totally innocent...
...there aren't superb teachers; there are teachers who inspire kids to become astronauts, presidents of the United States--even to become teachers themselves--and give them the tools they need to achieve those goals, But there are also far too many teachers who see their job as a kickback and who assign fill-in-the blank worksheets all day. If salaries were high enough, getting a job as a teacher would be a more selective process...
...Rostenkowski took at least $50,000 in cash disguised as office purchases of stamps from the House post office -- the 17-count indictment outlined a collection of schemes that allegedly cost taxpayers more than $500,000. In the most damning part, it accused Rostenkowski of a kickback scam in which he put 14 people on his payroll for no-show jobs and such tasks as taking pictures at the weddings of his daughters and mowing the lawn at his summer home...
...voter rebellion has been simmering for a long time. Decades of misrule have brought the institutions of government to a state of collapse. In the past 20 months more than 3,000 politicians and businessmen have been implicated in an ever expanding web of billion-dollar kickback and bribery scandals. High taxes, unemployment over 10% and an influx of immigrants have finally driven the normally sanguine Italians into a rage...