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Word: werkspoor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1976-1976
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...doing some palm greasing of his own. The Netherlands' leading newspaper, Amsterdam's Telegraaf, implicated Bernhard in a $12 million bribe paid 25 years ago to the late dictator Juan Peron and other Argentine officials to clinch a $100 million railroad-car contract for the Dutch firm Werkspoor. The bribe, which was authorized by the Dutch State Bank and approved by the government, also included the gift of a deluxe presidential train for el Lider and $12,000 in jewelry for his second wife, Evita...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: Prince in Double Dutch | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

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