Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...convictions of Martin and Gilly. But Sprague was determined to find out who had organized the murders. He got Gilly's wife to implicate her father, a minor U.M.W. official named Silous Huddleston. Huddleston in turn said that the plot had been conceived in Washington, and that his boss in the scheme had been Albert Pass, a member of the U.M.W.'s international executive board...
Minutes after the Pass trial ended, Sprague called a meeting in his motel room of the team that was pursuing the case: five FBI men, two Pennsylvania investigators and two of his own assistants. Sprague came up with some 20 leads to check out, including Pass's boss, William Jenkins Turnblazer, 52, president of the union's District 19 in the coal fields of eastern Kentucky and Tennessee. Turnblazer was a good friend of Boyle, who had given him his job, but Sprague had a hunch that the mild-mannered unionist was a troubled man who knew something...
...surprise was the election of a relatively youthful (37) Shanghai party leader, Wang Hung-wen, as one of the five vice chairmen. A onetime textile worker and later a boss of the city's rampaging Red Guards, Wang has powerful patrons-among them Mao's wife Chiang Ching. At the Congress, Wang gave the important report on the revision of the party constitution-a role possibly assigned by Mao himself. These developments make Wang one of the party's most important leaders...
...station after an Irish-accented caller alerted the press. A bomb concealed in a railway hobbyist's manual blew up in the face of Joanna Knight, a 25-year-old Stock Exchange secretary, as she was opening the morning mail. She suffered hand, face and arm injuries. Her boss, 61-year-old Exchange General Secretary George Brind, was also injured. Hours later a book bomb exploded in the mail room of the Bank of England, blowing off a man's hand...
...Rabbit Boss, Sanchez...