Word: illicit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...signs of an outbreak of traditional hostility between Serbs, Croats and other Yugoslav nationalities. In a series of new laws that are expected to go into effect this month, he has sharply restricted religious activity, especially that of the Roman Catholic Church, on the ground that it is backing illicit "nationalism." Thousands of government officials have been purged as suspected troublemakers. In an attempt to ensure an orderly succession, Tito has decreed that his powers will be passed on to a collective leadership consisting of an eight-member presidency which presumably will be headed by Party Theoretician Edvard Kardelj...
...problem first surfaced in 1973, when the Watergate special prosecutor's office discovered that Gulf had illegally contributed about $150,000 to the 1972 campaigns of various politicians. Several other corporations-among them, Northrop, 3-M, Goodyear and American Airlines-have admitted making the same type of illicit contribution. But there was something strange about Gulfs case. Though other companies admitted that top executives knew about the gifts, Gulfs man on the spot was only its lobbying chief in Washington: Vice President Claude C. Wild...
...hypothesis the police intend to investigate further: that I.R.A. sympathizers in Ireland smuggle weapons and explosives aboard the QE 2 at Cork, where she sometimes stops on her trans-Atlantic route. The illicit cargo is kept undercover during the Manhattan turn-around and then smuggled off the ship when she returns to Southampton. British authorities also suspect that weapons smugglers are receiving financial and other help from U.S. sympathizers, especially Irish-American enclaves along the East Coast...
...possible business connections and again in 1952 with Richard Danner, a former FBI agent and Lansky acquaintance who turned up in 1972 as the courier of Howard Hughes's $100,000 to Rebozo. Nixon acquired his Key Biscayne land at bargain basement prices from Lansky through Rebozo by laundering illicit profits from Cuban casinos. Nixon was the "secret action officer" in the White House for the Bay of Pigs and wrote in Six Crises: "The covert training of Cuban exiles by the CIA was due in substantial part, at least, to my efforts." On November 22 Nixon was in Dallas...
...Portland, Ore., a program to reduce wasted costs and effort by ensuring that all carriers handle an equal amount of mail has been tried. The powerful 245,000-member National Association of Letter Carriers is likely to fight Bailar's proposal on the ground that it is an illicit speedup. Bailar also plans to hold down new hiring by exercising more vigorously the Postal Service's right to move workers from one job to another...