Word: corruptible
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Columnist Jack Anderson, who specializes in unearthing governmental misdeeds, grades the Carter Administration "a little below normal-less corrupt than Nixon, of course, but more corrupt than Ford, L.B. J. or J.F.K. Perhaps Carter doesn't know any better, maybe it's the way they play politics in Georgia." From the outset Joe Kraft has been unimpressed with Carter, regarding him as an "unstructured mind" incapable of consistent policymaking. In Kraft's view, Carter lacks a political base, which he makes up for by assembling 7% of this group, 14% of another-a "remainder candidate," driven...
...Republic of Korea the events of April 1960 are popularly known as hak saeng uigo-the Righteous Student Uprising. During those turbulent days, the students of South Korea succeeded in doing what their country's politicians had failed to do: they brought down the entrenched, increasingly corrupt twelve-year-old government of President Syngman Rhee and sent the crusty old leader into exile. Today, even the official Handbook of Korea, published under the Park Chung Hee regime hails the uprising unreservedly. "The students," it declares, "had led the people into a democratic revolution...
...they are also guilty as charged is something the jury will decide, perhaps by next month. The charge is almost as long as the trial. Its most important question: Have the defendants violated Title 18 of the U.S. Code, a complicated provision known as R.I.C.O. (for Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations...
...Ayatullah Khomeini is a unique, three-in-one figure: revolutionary, de facto head of state, and spiritual leader. He has made much of his religious role and his rejection of the ways and means of the secular and corrupt Western world. Islam requires the truly dedicated to follow a most detailed ethical system. For Muslims, the present crisis in Iran has raised some perplexing questions. Are good Muslims permitted to indulge in hostage taking? In peacetime, during a jihad (holy war), or not at all? And, depending on the answer, how good a Muslim is the Ayatullah Khomeini...
...landscape in this play is a tiny Russian village in the year 1905, where civilization is, at best, a rumor. Gorky populates the canvas of his drama with wife beaters, sodden vodkaholics, corrupt bureaucrats, venal merchants, sanctimonious hypocrites, neurotically damaged children and disaffected wives who have been churlishly and brutally scorned...