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...continuing gang war between New York City's embattled Mafia clans has deteriorated from messy to just plain murky. The showdown began openly enough when reputed Mafia Chieftain Joe Colombo was gunned down last year at an outdoor rally for his Italian-American Civil Rights League. Then in April "Crazy Joe" Gallo, Colombo's archenemy, was assassinated in the relative privacy of a Little Italy clam house. Last month the nephew of Carlo Gambino, boss of the nation's strongest Mafia family and a Colombo ally, was kidnaped...
...McGovern. An integral fixture of the national Humphrey campaign has been the potbellied union leaders who could double as precinct bosses. Their rye-and-gravel voices and center-city accents prompted some newsmen following Humphrey to invent a mythical character named Augie. Introducing Humphrey to union crowds, California Labor Chieftain Joe Mazzola likes to tell his audiences: "This man speaks nuttin' but the trut'." He then sternly admonishes the workers: "Get off your butts...
...commander now is the sole surviving Gallo brother, Albert. Says an acquaintance of the family: "They are all scared to death." Even though their position is now mainly defensive, the Gallos have put out contracts for the deaths of three enemies: 1) Alphonse ("Alley Boy") Persico, the Colombo war chieftain; 2) Nick Bianco, a New England gangster whom the Gallos want killed because he arranged the treaty that ended the Gallo-Profaci war ten years ago while Joey was in jail; and 3) Joe Yacovelli, a Colombo capo. The Gallos believe that Yacovelli had a hand in Joey...
...petty and personal as it may seem, the clash between President Nixon and Labor Chieftain George Meany is for the highest political stakes. At issue is not only the fate of Nixon's plan for the nation's economic recovery, which may depend on whether labor accepts the Government's wage guidelines. Also in the balance is the 1972 presidential election. Determined that Nixon must go, Meany is preparing the biggest labor participation of any campaign in history. Just as determined to stay, Nixon plans to beat back the attack by showing that he serves the national...
SUDDENLY, the state of the U.S. economy loomed directly over the lives of almost every American. Wage earner and corporate chieftain, small shareholder and Wall Street operator, vacationer abroad and ordinary consumer at home?each faced a radically altered set of rules as a result of President Nixon's brief, stunning television speech. Millions of Americans, contemplating restrictions on their business and financial lives unprecedented in the nation's peacetime history, spent the week in an uncertain?but vaguely hopeful ?examination of a new economic world...