51.   Nixon picked as a running mate Maryland Gov. Spiro Agnew, who was ignored and resigned in the wake of charges that he accepted bribes and evaded income tax.

52.   Now Gutierrez stands accused of accepting bribes from and collaborating with leading Mexican drug traffickers.

53.   Nobuharu Okamitsu, the former administrative vice minister who has been arrested on suspicion of accepting bribes from Koyama, was a member of that group.

54.   Not least among these is a jumpiness among politicians, after a wave of recent arrests of legislators, at the risk of being caught accepting bribes.

55.   On Monday, two ministry officials were arrested on charges of accepting bribes from the banks that they supervised.

56.   On Wednesday, a former Newark councilman, Gary Harris, was sentenced to nearly three years in prison for accepting bribes.

57.   One exception is Walter Armanini, a former cemetery official from Milan who was sentenced to five years and seven months on charges of accepting bribes for grave sites.

58.   Pentoney pleaded no contest to accepting a bribe.

59.   Pompeii guards are known to accept bribes to take tourists into closed areas.

60.   Police recommend that Netanyahu be charged with accepting a bribe, breach of trust by a public official, obstruction of justice and attempted fraud.