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...found that graft is routine and nearly ubiquitous in Oklahoma county government, and has added as much as $10 million a year to the state's road-maintenance costs. Only one county commissioner and one businessman have finished their trials so far (both were convicted) and another pleaded nolo contendere. But prosecutors say they have evidence against more than 250 people -104 of whom have agreed to plead guilty -and that nearly all of the state's 77 counties are represented. Fifty-one of the 231 current county commissioners have resigned, and perhaps 100 more face charges...
Cecil Parker, a former commissioner who will plead guilty, speaks of the corruption with a candor bordering on nonchalance. "This thing's been happening since they made county commissioners," says Parker, who at 76 is two years older than the state of Oklahoma. "Sure I took kickbacks. I never asked a man for it. They always gave it to me." Says Betty Eisenhour, who as clerk of Canadian County was an unwitting intermediary for the graft: "I always wondered why I was paying middlemen. Now I know. The commissioners were good old boys, but just between...
...President eventually announced that there would be only a $13 billion trim in the increase in military spending over the next three years, and a mere $2 billion cut for fiscal 1982. He also ruled out deferring the tax reductions enacted in July. In rejecting these courses, Reagan could plead consistency. He has been adamant in calling for a military buildup to counter the Soviet threat. In his speech he described national security as "Government's first responsibility." He had also campaigned on a pledge to lower taxes and could hardly back away from the reductions so recently...
...scrutiny of the school seems to have diminished in the wake of the Republican takeover, but the University itself should pressure the K-School to step up its searches. With millions of dollars pouring in for the school's new building, it is particularly shameful that the school must plead insufficient funds in spurning a student request for a minority recruiter...
...guns and volleys fired over dead bodies at funerals." After two young Protestant police officers were killed last week by an I.R.A. land mine, Tomás Cardinal O'Fiaich, the Primate of All Ireland, declared: "This act must be called by its proper name of murder. I plead for an immediate end to this cruel and senseless carnage...