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...Viet Nam, the Green Berets were assigned the task of border surveillance, interdiction of enemy supply routes, attacks and ambushes. In addition, they work with the border natives, mostly Nungs and Montagnards, operating nearly 70 border and highlands camps where a dozen Green Berets will spearhead a force of several hundred irregulars...
...Illinois, La Cosa Nostra exerts major influence in a dozen Chicago wards and dictates the votes of as many as 15 state legislators. Known as the West Side Bloc, a newspaper euphemism to avoid libel suits, the Mob opposes anticrime bills in the state legislature, forces gangsters onto the payroll of Mayor Richard Daley's Chicago machine, and corrupts the city police department. Salvatore ("Momo") Giancana may be hiding in Mexico, but his stand-ins, Tony ("Big Tuna") Accardo and Paul ("The Waiter") DeLucia still pack influence. Example: When a Justice Department report charged 29 Chicago policemen with being grafters...
...several forms. One of the simplest is extortion. The gangsters might thus inform a small businessman, who has perhaps only a dozen employees, that from that minute on his enterprise is unionized. Though the employees may never know that they belong to a "union"?and never receive any of the benefits of being in a union ?the employer nevertheless pays the "union organizers" the workers' initiation fees and monthly dues. In another variation, the bogus union settles for "sweetheart" contracts that are grossly unfair to the workers it is supposed to represent. The difference between what a legitimate...
Stable Partnerships. As a builder, Quintana has constructed hundreds of miles of highway and a dozen dams in Mexico, including the 720,000-kw. El Infiernillo power project on the country's southwest coast. He also served as the main contractor for building the Sports Palace for the 1968 Olympic Games. Partnership with a stable government, in the hands of the same political party for more than 30 years, has paid off handsomely...
...manufacture the materials and machinery he needed. Says Quintana: "ICA has become a mother-hen company that creates everything and has its own chickens and eggs around it." Among the results of that policy are Industria del Hierro, a machinery producer in Querétaro, and partnerships with a dozen European and U.S. firms-including Link-Belt Speeder Co., now a division of FMC Corp. of California...