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...agency activities on campus, and has been a vocal spokesman for these freedoms, consistenly challenging CIA director Stansfield Turner's rebuttals. In the midst of his concern for federal problems, however, Bok, one community leader says, has ignored problems closer to home. "While he accuses the CIA of running rampant on campus, he forgets that Harvard is running rampant over Cambridge, and sort of pats the city on the head when it's necessary." It is, as one might expect after a period of almost a decade, a mixed record...
Radio broadcasts from Monrovia identified the coup leader as Samuel Doe, 28, an obscure master sergeant in the Liberian army who called his new government the People's Redemption Council of the Armed Forces of Liberia. Doe declared that he had overthrown the Tolbert regime because of its "rampant corruption and continuous failure" to solve Liberia's problems. Mindful that Liberia has always been one of America's closest African allies, Doe asked for a meeting with U.S. Chargé d'Affaires Julius Walker. He told Walker that he was aware of America's "historic...
...most disturbing tendency of unchecked corporate influence, though, is the blatant corruption rampant among the big business elite. In recent years about 500 American firms have admitted to "illegal or improper payoffs abroad" totalling more than $1 billion. In addition, less obviously illegal--but often more harmful--acts result from unclear and unenforced regulation. Companies usually explain "chemical crime," the deliberate proliferation of toxic wastes and other chemicals into the environment, by pleading ignorance of the consequence of their actions. Ford Motor Company knew that Pintos often exploded on rear-end impact; Firestone failed to disclose evidence that its Radial...
...fans, for their part, probably have an equal lack of sympathy for the owners and the players, whose salaries (average this year: $121,900) seem stratospheric even in an age of rampant inflation. In the spring, they have only one nonnegotiable demand: Play ball...
Reeling. In some of the less developed nations, inflation has reached the point of absurdity. Rampant inflation in such Third World countries as Zaïre (more than 90%) and Argentina (more than 120%) has been fueled by years of economic mismanagement, corruption, and deficit spending financed by the uncontrolled growth of the money supply. The newest member of the triple-digit club is Israel, whose current 121.4% inflation rate has been caused largely by heavy defense spending, high oil prices, public works and costly social welfare programs...