Word: crimeeds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...aging leaders of the Mafia's New York crime families, the clean sheets of a hospital room looked much more inviting last week than the cold bars of the Metropolitan Correctional Center. FBI agents watching the Staten Island home of Aniello Dellacroce, 70, saw the longtime underboss of the Gambino family moving normally about the residence. But when agents arrived to arrest him, Dellacroce claimed to be sick and was taken to Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital. He joined Anthony ("Tony Ducks") Corallo, 72, boss of the Lucchese family, who had anticipated his imminent arrest and checked in earlier, claiming...
...metropolitan areas, where more than 75% of all Americans reside. Since 1981, when the first edition appeared, the fortunes of a number of cities have changed. One reason: this time around Authors Richard Boyer and David Savageau have refined their nine "livability" criteria. Data about climate, housing, health care, crime, transportation, education, culture, recreation and economics are now weighted by such qualities as "fortunate circumstances of geography" and "outdoor recreational assets." Third-ranked Raleigh-Durham, N.C., moved up from ninth place, for instance, partly because it is "a genteel place to live." Atlanta, 1981's top city, fell to eleventh...
Rothchild spins a tale of the wild, wild South in which motives, loyalties and identities are lost in a tangle of crime and counterinsurgency. The absurdist flavor of his account is best sampled through a procession of shady characters, including "the terrorist pediatrician," a Cuban exile accused of blowing up one of Castro's airliners and firing a bazooka at ships from the causeway linking Miami to Miami Beach...
...Beltway mind works was illustrated the other day when New York City Mayor Ed Koch came to Washington and dined with the resident media. He was chided about the comparative records of subway crime in New York and Washington. His Honor looked incredulous, something he is a master at. His voice rose like a buzz...
...miles) and was paid for basically by the Federal Government. We have a system that is 77 years old or more, that has 750 miles of track. You can't compare them. You don't even have bathrooms in your subways. They purposely took them out. It was a crime-control operation. But if you want to go to the bathroom, you have to go and ask a manager if you can use his." Anyone who has been in a New York subway bathroom knows that he has entered the real world...