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...though, new laws kept gradually broadening the concept of bribery. In 1881 New York became the first state to make it a misdemeanor to bribe private citizens. During the next half century, 16 other states passed laws against bribing specific kinds of private employees: chauffeurs in Illinois, gardeners in Maryland...
...possible conflict of interest. While Davis urged that Meese be "counseled" about this conduct, Martin decided that it was sufficient merely to advise Fielding that the "appearance" matter still troubled the ethics office. Martin, who earned his political appointment by helping organize Reagan's 1980 election campaign in Maryland's Montgomery County, insisted that no one had pressured him to change his staff's position. Even so, the agency's turnabout did not satisfy some of the Senators...
...dean of the diplomatic corps, the Soviet Union's longtime Ambassador to Washington, Anatoli Dobrynin. The other was an invitation to six "real people," as Mathias called them, from around the nation. Selected through professional associations, the group includes a truck driver from Alabama, a union official from Maryland, a farmer from Kansas, a fire fighter from Texas and a businesswoman from California. For the sixth, Buffalo Narcotics Agent Joe Petronella, the invitation presented a problem: he specializes in undercover work requiring disguises and refuses to be photographed. Even so, he vowed, "I'm going as myself...
Such assurances did not prevent two of the current cases from winding up in court. In both Council Bluffs and Pasadena, judges ruled that the afflicted children should be allowed to attend school but must submit to a daily inspection by school nurses. The Maryland judge stipulated that Johnny Bigley wear clothing that covers his lesions and ordered special precautions to protect the school employees who change his diapers...
Evans and Novak had been sued by Bertell Ollman, a Marxist professor at New York University, who claimed that he lost his chance to become head of the University of Maryland's political science department because of a column they wrote criticizing his proposed appointment. He sued for $1 million, plus $5 million in punitive damages, sums that Bork called "quite capable of silencing political commentators forever...