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...Commissioner Fred Goldberg is feeling some heat. A report by the House Government Operations Committee blasts the IRS for high-level misconduct and cover-ups. "Crooks auditing crooks," charges committee chairman John Conyers Jr. of Michigan. Even worse, a second report by a Goldberg-picked panel of outside experts concludes that the commissioner's solutions to the crisis are "narrow" and deal mostly with "symptoms rather than root causes." Specifically, the panel found that many IRS criminal-investigation agents are not supervised, nor are they adequately trained in ethics. The report was sent to Goldberg...
When Hedrick Smith finished a three-year reporting stint in the Soviet Union in 1974, he did not even dream of writing this book. In fact, he wrote a very different one: The Russians, a best seller that depicted a Soviet society mired in lies, corruption and fear. He was convinced, he recalls in The New Russians, that "fundamental change was impossible...
...miscalculation, like that of so many other Western correspondents, was to focus on the dissidents who protested in public and largely to ignore the disaffected millions of Soviet citizens who went through the motions of their jobs while seething with resentment. That "hidden constituency" for reform even included young Communist Party officials who saw that the society was as decrepit as its bemedaled leader, Leonid Brezhnev...
When war broke out between Iraq and Iran in 1980, Carlos Cardoen, a small- ^ scale Chilean arms manufacturer, was quick off the mark: he flew to Baghdad in search of a deal. Because he had no contacts in the Iraqi government, "nobody would even see me," he recalls. "So I just left my brochures and went home...
Cardoen makes no apologies for helping arm Iraqi soldiers, even though the cluster-bomb factory he built on the outskirts of Baghdad is no doubt spitting out weapons that might be used against the multinational alliance arrayed against Saddam in the Persian Gulf. Cardoen rationalizes his position by explaining that he began selling Saddam arms "when Iraq was considered a friend of the West who was fighting the Ayatullah ((Khomeini...