Word: corruption
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo, thought to head a ring that shipped up to two tons of cocaine monthly into the U.S., had been sought for years, but was protected by corrupt Mexican officials, according to U.S. drug agents...
...more theoretical level, perestroika has been attacked by conservative intellectuals who improbably combine a nationalist nostalgia for Russian Orthodoxy and the Stalin era with a xenophobic hatred of corrupt Western influences on Soviet life. Many of these critics belong to the Writers' Union of the Russian Federal Republic, the largest of the U.S.S.R.'s 15 constituent republics. The literary monthly Nash Sovremennik has denounced rock music and beauty pageants as demeaning influences on Russian culture. Such writers as Yuri Bondarev and Vasily Belov have attacked the de-Stalinization process for defaming a period when, despite Stalin's tyranny, the Soviet...
...defense tactic, Milken's lawyers will probably attack Boesky's credibility because he received a reduced charge in return for his testimony. They could also challenge the constitutionality of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations law, the statute under which Milken has been charged. Some legal experts believe the law, originally designed to combat organized crime, gives prosecutors unfair leverage in white-collar-crime cases...
...ARENA, the paramilitary organization turned political party that has been closely linked to death squads responsible for thousands of political murders. But the well-intended Duarte failed either to negotiate a peace or restore his country's shattered economy; his government was widely despised as both inept and corrupt...
Teledyne's statement said: "The company's decision to enter a plea agreement and make a settlement with the government primarily came from the recognition that a former employer, Michael Savaides, had entered into a corrupt and illegal arrangement with William Parkin, a consultant to Teledyne Electronics, and Fred Lackner, with whom the company had no relationship...