Word: corruption
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Nam Veteran. Drafted to defend a dubious cause in which he has no interest, into an Army whose officers may cheat him, to fight through a hell of swamps and heat on behalf of a corrupt government whose reluctant troops are incompetent-only to return, quick or dead, to a homeland where the enemy is encouraged by his contemporaries and many of his legislators and his own sacrifices are ridiculed. No Moon...
THIS outraged statement notwithstanding, Newark's business leaders had little reason to be shocked by last week's indictments. Crime and corruption have long been blatantly evident in what may well be the Mafia capital of the U.S. After the city's bloody 1967 race riot, for example, a special Governor's commission laid much of the blame to "a widespread belief that Newark's government is corrupt...
Their reports expose the futility of the Federal Corrupt Practices Act of 1925. Designed to limit campaign expenses, the act has never been enforced, and contains so many loopholes that congressional candidates, in effect, often ignore it. Senatorial campaigns can cost more than $1,000,000, yet the law requires a candidate to report only those expenses of which he has personal knowledge; thus many campaign committees purposely never show their man the books. The law also has a convenient provision that allows the committees to make no federal report at all if they exist in only a single state...
...truck drivers. Teammate, as it happens, is the monthly magazine of a bunch of truck drivers. In bareknuckle prose, it has been throwing straight jabs at the Teamsters Union hierarchy. The union officials, who are just filling in while Jimmy Hoffa finishes his jail sentence, are described as corrupt bosses and the "enemy within." The magazine has publicized alleged Mafia involvement in the misuse of pension funds and attacked dynastic policies in selecting local leaders...
...employs no metaphors and few euphemisms. It needs none. The time is yesterday, and the location is the birthplace of democracy. The ironies are only too severe, and the tragedy only too profound. The film's end is a simple, stark report: the April 1967 coup restored the corrupt police officials and gave their homicidal accomplices token sentences. The prosecutor was forced to resign and go into exile...