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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...visitors were presumably also concerned about the upsurge in murderous violence within the Mob. En route to New York, Fratianno stopped off to visit Mob friends in Cleveland. That same day, John Nardi, 61, who was feuding with Young Turks in that city, was torn apart by a bomb as he started his car. In addition, there have been the 20 or more Mob-connected murders by hit men armed with silencer-equipped, .22-cal. automatic pistols (TIME, April 18). FBI investigators now believe that there are separate killers deployed by hoodlums in Chicago and by the Genovese family...
Mayer uses the plight of the aging comic-book hero to parody most of what characterizes America and everything that makes up New York. Shortly after the novel begins, chaos strikes the bankrupt Metropolis. The unpaid and overworked police force have resigned en masse and looting, rape and murder pervade. Brinkley, watching football, curses his bookie and tries to ignore the city's crisis until the fateful thought strikes him, "Is it a conspiracy?" Needless to say, it is. And Brinkley plunges into a crisis of conscience. Should he leave the repose of his suburban home, his loving wife...
...favorite white wines (Montrachet and Pouilly Fuissé) and began closeting himself with his staff and reading far into the nights in his suite atop the Beverly Hilton Hotel. He was still in a mood for cramming, fortunately, as his rented blue Mercedes rolled toward the final Watergate taping. En route, he read the statute on obstruction of justice that was to prove so helpful...
...rebel retreat, from within 20 miles of the copper-mining center of Kolwezi, had started even before the government "offensive." As they probed slowly westward, with Moroccans providing back-up support and removing antipersonnel mines from the dirt tracks en route, Zaïrian forces encountered practically no resistance. There was not a single major firefight and hardly a contact of any kind. "This isn't a war," one bored Moroccan officer confided. "It is a matter of making armed reconnaissance and then retaking ground without a fight. To call it a war is a joke...
...short game was terrible," he said, "I missed seven putts under six feet." Vik foozled a 15-inch putt en route to taking over 40 putts during his morning round...