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...Angiulos were right to be nervous: RICO is one tough piece of legislation. With some hyperbole, the head of the Justice Department's criminal division, Stephen Trott, calls it "the thermonuclear device of criminal statutes." More than 15 years after it was adopted by Congress, the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act has become the most potent Mob-busting tool in the nation, blasting underworld operations from New York to California...
...paintings cooked themselves down to blistered wrecks, sometimes within the lifetime of the sitters. An elderly Irish rake, the Earl of Drogheda, returned to his native land after 30 years abroad, with a shattered constitution. He found that his youthful portrait by Reynolds was even more poxed, corrupt and wrinkled than he had become. One might say it is to Joshua Reynolds, rather than Oscar Wilde, that / the portrait of Dorian Gray owes its existence...
...afternoon during the filming of Our Man in Havana, in which Kovacs played a corrupt police chief, Sir Alec passed the comedian's hotel room. The door was open, and Kovacs was sitting at a desk and typing furiously, surrounded by half a dozen naked girls reading magazines. "Shall I shut your door?" Guinness politely suggested. "No! For heaven's sakes!" replied Kovacs. "What would people say? They'd say Kovacs is in that room with a | bunch of naked broads. And they'd think the worst. With the door open they can see for themselves it's all perfectly...
...given two different parties at the Real Estate Office and two more at Facilities Maintenance, without satisfaction. A call to Casa Mexico, the restaurant at 75 Winthrop that had been my intended destination, confirmed university ownership, however. I hereby irrevocably demand of Harvard University, disinvestiture from the corrupt Winthrop Street operation, refund of monies lost by the complaintant, and public apology in the form of visible signs erected where undevious-minded, innocent out-of-towners can see them. Cliff Johnson...
...that is the case, military strength will count all the more. Under Marcos' Chief of Staff, the despised General Fabian Ver, the Philippine armed forces became corrupt, undisciplined and top-heavy with overage brass. Ramos, the West Point graduate and respected professional who took Ver's place, says he plans to change that. One of his first acts last week was to retire 22 generals, including Ver himself and the chiefs of the major branches of the armed services. It was the first step in a military reform program long urged by the U.S. The Reagan Administration was delighted with...