Word: chieftain
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...RICO law had already been used to indict some Mafia clan leaders in New York (including Carmine Persico, 51, a Colombo family chieftain), Boston, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Cleveland and Rochester. Charges of skimming $2 million in cash from casinos in Las Vegas have also been leveled against high Mafia figures in Chicago, Kansas City and Milwaukee...
Many special favors go far beyond the usual borders of banking. Customers at Houston's Medical Center Bank with at least $100,000 in their accounts are welcome to borrow the company airplane, a six-passenger Navajo Chieftain. They are asked only to fill the gas tank. At a customer's request, the bank will dispatch its limousine or arrange for theater tickets. The bank, which is situated at the Texas Medical Center, decided in 1978 to devote itself entirely to doctors and other wealthy customers. Says Chairman Donald Neuenschwander: "You can't be all things...
...former South Vietnamese army officers led by Ky run a 1,000-member Vietnamese crime network in the U.S. Ky, who fled Viet Nam when U.S. troops pulled out in 1975, lives in Huntington Beach, Calif, and owns a liquor store. He contends, "I'm not a Mafia chieftain. I'm not a gangster. I'm a poor man. I would love for the Government of this country to take official action and investigate these allegations to clear my name." The commission is not expected to turn in its report until...
...leader after Trudeau resigned as Prime Minister in June, came close to losing his own constituency in the western province of British Columbia. He eventually prevailed, 21,728 to 18,404. Though some party regulars grumbled about dumping Turner as Liberal leader last week, the white-thatched chieftain ignored the criticism. "The people of Canada from coast to coast have spoken," said Turner to a dispirited band of followers on election night. "Tomorrow I begin my task of rebuilding the Liberal Party...
DIED. Pierre Gemayel, 78, courtly, shrewd and strong-willed political chieftain of Lebanon's Christians, a key powerbroker in the country's factional political strife, and father of President Amin Gemayel and his brother Bashir, who was killed in 1982 before he could assume the presidency; of a heart attack; in Bikfaya, Lebanon. He helped found the right-wing Phalange Party in 1936 to protect the interests of Maronite Christians from submergence by Islam and a year later assumed its leadership; he fought French colonialists, Muslim rivals, Christian competitors, Syrians and Palestinians, and he survived several assassination attempts...