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...York prostitution ring so that he could be deported to Italy. Together with a number of other American mobsters, Luciano helped form a new organization that was far more interested in the burgeoning international drug market than in old-fashioned "businesses" such as cattle rustling and extortion. The inevitable clash between the new and old Mafia resulted in a sensational series of shootings and stabbings on the streets of Palermo in the mid-1950s. The killings marked a sinister turning point in the history of the honored association: henceforth no code of honor or oath of loyalty would prove stronger...
...since the withdrawal of the U.S. Marines and other contingents of the Multi-National Force last winter, Syria has been the dominant power in Lebanon and has been trying to bring an end to that country's factional fighting. In the past six months there have been several clashes between the Iranian guards and Syrian troops in the Bekaa Valley. In the latest fight, in early September, Syria brought in tanks and forced the guards to return to their camps outside the ancient city of Baalbek. That clash was promptly followed by a surprise visit to Syria by Iranian...
LIKE NO OTHERS writer since Conrad, V.S. Naipaul has been able to capture the spirit of the world's less visited places. Throughout his 30 year career, the writer has remained true to a unique vision of the Third World. He understands the intangible clash of cultures that accompanies the application of Western ways to primitive societies. His books, both novels and journalistic travel accounts, offer a melange of modernity and mysticism which captures the cultural dislocation development has brought to the world's more backward corners...
...debate him, we want to stay as close to him as possible." Yet the era of good feeling that Reagan is riding partly reflects a public appreciation of his leadership in certain substantive areas of policy. Indeed, the contest will involve an unusually stark ideological clash over the course that Reagan has set and its chances for success in the future. The principal battlegrounds...
...Francis of Assisi and Charles Darwin are rarely paired as ideological foes, but in his invigorating keynote address New York Governor Mario Cuomo served them up as symbols of the philosophical clash between the Democratic and Republican parties. While Ronald Reagan has questioned Darwin's theory of evolution, Cuomo accuses the President of embracing social Darwinism, "survival of the fittest," as part of his supply-side economic theories...