Word: politicians
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Corruption is a kind of custom in Gary, Ind.-to the point that about the only real mistake a politician can make is failing to report his bribes on his federal income tax return. Last week Democratic Mayor George Chacharis, 54, pleaded guilty to doing just that-on a take of $226,686. He should have learned a lesson from his predecessor, Peter Mandich, who was set free. Mandich "received large amounts of graft payments." said a U.S. attorney in court, ''but the evidence does not show that he failed to report the payments as income...
Resigning his post an hour before he entered the guilty plea, Chacharis ended a political career that at one time seemed likely to take him from the sooty back rooms of Gary into greener pastures-almost any pastures being greener than Gary's. A politician who was active on the Kennedy campaign banquet circuit-and who brought in nearly 70% of Gary's vote for Jack Kennedy-Chacharis was once invited to the White House to meet Greek Prime Minister Constantine Karamanlis. For a while, the dream of chubby George Chacharis to return to his native Greece...
...very strongly that one of the mistakes that we have made in the past is to try to tell everybody how they should vote at a national convention." Could any Republican beat Kennedy in 1964? "I don't know about '64. I don't think any politician does, or anybody else, but if the election were today, I would say no." As for his own presidential prospects: "I think I am a practical politician, and I think anybody who wanted to be nominated should start up an organization and make an effort about it, and I have...
...Hassel's unusual first names are of archaic Frisian origin and often encountered in North Germany. Uwe (pronounced oo-vuh) is similar to Oswald, while Kai (rhymes with sky) is a near-perfect name for a German politician. It means: "One who is dangerous to his enemy...
Born on a farm near the Belgian border, rugged Philippe Lamour migrated to Paris as a young man, became a successful lawyer and politician. In 1940, along with other Parisians, he fled south ahead of the Nazi panzers. Lamour never went back. He stopped running in the Midi town of Bellegarde, bought a rundown, 115-acre tract known as "The Farm of the Partridge," and settled down. At war's end, he added 50 more acres, traded in his horses for tractors and successfully grew strawberries and cauliflower in an area previously wedded to wine...