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...West Germany's Baader-Meinhof gang with something akin to the perverted zeal of Charles Manson's spiritual slaves. The society, which believes in repentance for sin and retreat from the evils of the modern world, is far more extreme than even the archconservative, fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood. The movement is bitterly opposed to the government of President Anwar Sadat, which has supposedly corrupted the purity of Islam by, among other things, expanding the role of women in public life...
...organizations in American society are endowed with such a complement of criminals, confidence men, rogues and ruffians as the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. And nowhere within that fraternity was rapacity more apparent than in the management-most people would call it mismanagement-of the union's $1.4 billion Central States, Southeast and Southwest pension fund. Under the guidance of both icy Jimmy Hoffa and shuffling Frank Fitzsimmons, trustees treated the fund as a pot of honey to be ladled liberally to friends and acquaintances. Now, after a two-year investigation by the Department of Labor and a threat...
...Only his socialist convictions made him turn down the post of Poet Laureate after Tennyson died. He translated the Icelandic sagas into English, wrote News from Nowhere, one of the best Utopian novels in the history of that genre, and was a charter member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. With John Ruskin, he was an influential agitator for maintaining the integrity of the architectural past; dozens of developers and architectural opportunists had cause to fear the voice of the Anti-Scrape, as Morris called his Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings...
...unions and four manufacturers banded together in a Committee to Preserve American Color Television. The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers calculated that 70,000 jobs already had been lost to the Japanese imports. Last March the International Trade Commission, a six-member watchdog group appointed by the President, recommended an increase in the tariffs on Japanese sets from 5% to 25%, effective in August. Displeased by that prospect, Carter summoned his trade negotiator, Millionaire Dallas Lawyer Robert Strauss, the recently retired Democratic Party chairman. "Bob," asked the President, "why don't you see what you can work...
...control led to the bloody Castellammarese War (named for the Sicilian town of Castellammare del Golfo, birthplace of many of the leading thugs). Only when the smoke cleared from that battle and a nationwide commission of Mafia dons was set up to coordinate criminal operations did the closed brotherhood, which was imported by Sicilian immigrants in the 1860s, begin dominating the American underworld...