write a big article on drive against bribery
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WHEREVER you look these days, there are headlines about the curious way in which some people use other people's money. The European Parliament has stirred itself to take a serious look at the sleaze which goes on under the European Commission's too often undiscerning nose. Some of the locals who were keen that the 2002 Winter Olympics should take place in Salt Lake City are accused of having used bribery to get their way. On a rather larger scale, the question of how on earth Indonesia's President Suharto had piled up so much wealth was one of the chief causes of the demonstrations that pushed him out of power last year. Several thousand miles away, on another continent, Zimbabwean students caught the point and put the same question to their own leaders. “If Indonesian students did it we can do it,” read one of their placards.
In the 1990s alone, governments in Italy, Brazil, Pakistan and Zaire have fallen partly because the people they governed would no longer tolerate the corruption of politicians. It is not the first time that the people have mutinied. Imelda Marcos's amazing shoe collection enraged Filipinos in the early 1980s every bit as much as the high living of Mr Suharto's children infuriated Indonesians.