Word: armes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...governor-elect Ventura will give new meaning to the term "political arm twisting" when he takes office. DICK BARAK Coon Rapids, Minn...
Lucky's vision of replacing traditional Sicilian strong-arm methods with a corporate structure, a board of directors and systematic infiltration of legitimate enterprise failed to impress Maranzano. An ancient-history aficionado and would-be Julius Caesar, Maranzano aspired to be boss of all bosses. Most of all, he wanted to avoid Caesar's fatal miscalculation. He found Lucky too ambitious, too enterprising, too dangerous...
Luciano also led the trend in gangster chic. He lived large, in a suite at the Waldorf Astoria. Expensive and elegant suits, silk shirts, handmade shoes, cashmere topcoats and fedoras enhanced his executive image. There was always a beautiful woman, a showgirl or a nightclub singer on his arm. Sinatra and actor George Raft were pals...
...General Accounting Office, Congress's investigative arm, is not usually known for producing page-turning whodunits. But the agency's report on Friday recounting Citibank's money dealings with Raul Salinas, the Mexican presidential brother who's been rumored to have links with drug lords, comes close. "The report is stark, unvarnished, and best of all a good read filled with details," says TIME correspondent S.C. Gwynne. "It tells how investigators believe the bank showed Salinas how to hide $100 million...
...inspectors, but aides say the President had no intention of passing one rifle to the hodgepodge of weak Iraqi opposition groups. (The measure leaves Clinton full discretion on whether and how to spend the money.) The Pentagon and the CIA still consider the legislation foolhardy in trying to arm an opposition "with no there there...