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...translation: our thing). During the 1980s, some 1,200 Mafia operatives were convicted, including the leaderships of New York City's five brugads and 11 smaller Italian gangs in cities ranging from Denver to Kansas City to New Orleans. The bloodletting has decimated two major New York City families (Colombo and Bonanno) and enabled Gambino family boss John Gotti, a flamboyant newcomer, to rise up overnight as America's leading media mobstar...
...island's north and east that was quickly filled by the militants the Indians had been fighting, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, who have yet to renounce their goal of a separate state for the country's minority Tamils. For now, the separatists and the central government in Colombo are working in concert for peace, but their alliance is anything but stable...
...sugar than other leading national brands," then fails to list how much it has. Wonder Light white bread trumpets "no cholesterol," but few breads these days have cholesterol, not even Taystee Butter Top wheat bread or Thomas' English muffins -- and neither of them makes such claims. And how can Colombo Nonfat Lite Yoghurt be nonfat when its label lists "less than...
About one matter there was no dispute: three terrorist leaders were shot dead last week in the suburbs of Sri Lanka's capital, Colombo. Government security forces killed Rohana Wijeweera, 46, fugitive founder of the terrorist Sinhalese People's Liberation Front (J.V.P.), as well as two other J.V.P. officials...
...Beverly Hills junk-bond trading floor of Drexel Burnham Lambert at the news coming over the brokerage firm's wire. Jubilation also reigned among most New York Republicans, and quite probably in Mafia hangouts as well. Rudolph Giuliani, famed prosecutor of Wall Street manipulators (Drexel, Ivan Boesky), mobsters (the Colombo family) and corrupt politicians (former Bronx Democratic leader Stanley Friedman), announced that after 5 1/2 years as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, he would resign at month's end. Gotham Republicans, a tiny band of inveterate losers, delightedly anticipated being able this fall to field...