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Before going to jail to serve eleven months for that caper, Roselli was bold enough to betray the Mafia in 1970. At the time, a federal grand jury was investigating charges that the Mob had illegally concealed its interest in the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas. Roselli, by then the Chicago Mob's top man in Las Vegas, talked about the scheme after being given a pledge of immunity. One of the men he discussed was Chicago's Tony Accardo...
...girl insists that the trouble is not in her but in the men she goes out with. She is loving and loyal, but men always betray her. "Lady, you're a professional victim, doing your niceness act." A hundred female heads nod in agreement...
These recommendations betray an impressive ignorance of the role of U.S. companies in South Africa. IBM is a particularly glaring case of a company whose sales contribute directly to the government's ability to implement its racist and repressive policies. The South African government uses IBM computers to coordinate a pass system that keeps politically active blacks from finding jobs. Blacks who agitate for political change lose their passes for "whites-only" areas, and are forced out of the industrialized areas of the country. IBM also supplies the computers for the South African military, much of which is geared toward...
...mouse of a bookkeeper whom Bernstein persuades to talk about the slush fund at the Committee for the Re-Election of the President. Penny Fuller and Lindsay Anne Grouse appear as newspaperwomen who help out with leads at key moments?the former dizzily, the latter with touching reluctance to betray a lost love...
Although Paul Hornblower (Leicester) is the best actor of the three, his is in some ways the most disappointing performance. Caught between love and ambition, Leicester serves both queens, only to betray each in turn; petty and cowardly though he is, his waverings also make him a tragic figure. Unfortunately, Hornblower chooses to portray the earl as a supercilious and excessively obvious double-dealer whose inward writhings cause him more annoyance than pain. Hand on hips, he delights in running his tongue over his lips in a gesture that reduces him to the level of a snake. It's hard...