Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Providence Journal-Bulletin two years ago sued the FBI, demanding that it make public 7,000 pages of transcripts from bugs placed in the Providence office of Mafia Boss Raymond Patriarca in the 1960s. To Patriarca's dismay, a judge ruled that disclosure was warranted under the Freedom of Information Act. But last week the decision was overturned by the appeals court, which cited a law prohibiting the release of illegally obtained evidence. Said the don: "Justice always comes through...
...deja vu that hangs over the scene. As Pol Pot and Shah Reza Pahlavi were cast by the wayside, to be replaced with governments far worse, if imaginable, than their predecessors, and as Allende fell and his country experienced a similar fate, can Nicaragua expect to 'meet the new boss, same as the old boss," as The Who put despite State Department fears for the worse, is actually comprised mostly of businessmen and U.S.-educated professionals, including only two hard-core leftist guerillas...
WILLIAM WINPISINGER, Machinists Union president: I think the country is crazy for a leader. That's the problem with the little fink we've got for a President now. It is still possible to call [AFL-CIO boss] George Meany a leader, but I happen to think he epitomizes negative leadership, characterized by inaction, immobility and stultified thinking. To me, Ted Kennedy has the skills to be a leader. He's charming; his staff has brains. Cleveland Mayor Dennis Kucinich took on the utility company and the interlocking directorates. He told them baloney...
DIED. Carmine Galante, 69, underworld boss; in a hail of gunfire blasts by ski-masked assassins as he lunched at a restaurant; in Brooklyn, N.Y. (see NATION...
...cher ish in an adversary: overweening vanity, bumbling pomposity, addiction to creature comforts, a tendency to alcoholic indiscretion, the heedless pursuit of venery." Opponents were destroyed not by reasoned argument but by a recital of their peccadilloes, endlessly repeated. When Ander son objected to such "scraps and chaff," his boss replied: "Once you catch one of these birds at anything, and you're sure of your facts, never worry about doing him an injustice by overplaying it. We'll never learn 10% of the evil they...