Word: colombo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...army cordoned off the area around the bus terminal, and police imposed a curfew on the Colombo district...
...blast was the first in Colombo since a series of fatal bombings last May that were blamed on Tamil guerrillas. Attacks by Tamil insurgents killed at least 142 people in eastern Sri Lanka in the past week...
...COLOMBO, Sri Lanka--A car bomb exploded yesterday at the crowded main bus terminal in the heart of the Sri Lankan capital, and officials said as many as 150 people were killed and more than 200 were injured...
...verdict was the first major setback for federal prosecutors in New York after several victories in recent organized-crime cases. In the last six months, the heads of the city's four other Mafia families, the Genovese, Lucchese, Bonnano and Colombo organizations, have been convicted...
...Colombo. With Persico and Langella both facing prison for long terms, no clear-cut successor can be named. Law-enforcement officials are divided on whether Joseph Brancato, 69, Vincent Aloi, 63, or Aloi's younger brother Benny, 51, will move up. Brancato served mainly as an errand boy for Persico, according to New York investigators, and seems to lack real clout. The Aloi brothers, on the other hand, appear to have the Mob smarts to run the family -- if they want to take the risk of doing...