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*Last week the government finally brought to trial on charges of murder and extortion Ngo Dinh Can, 53, brother of the slain President and former boss of Central Viet Nam. Can suffers from diabetes and spent his time in court on a stretcher.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Southeast Asia: Bandits to Battalions | 4/24/1964 | See Source »

Last week the government finally brought to trial on charges of murder and extortion Ngo Dinh Can, 53, brother of the slain President and former boss of Central Viet Nam. Can suffers from diabetes and spent his time in court on a stretcher.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Laos: Coup in the Year of the Serpent | 4/24/1964 | See Source »

(He is currently serving a term of 25 years in federal prison for extortion.) Asked how Sonny happened to sign away 55% of his interest in his personal-promotion company (worth an estimated $100,000) to Margolis, Sam puffed on his cigar and patiently explained that Listen had run up...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prizefighting: Sonny & Co. | 4/10/1964 | See Source »

For Fleming fans, who like 007 just as he is, worse is to come. Pitted once more against Ernst Blofeld, the fell master of the international crime syndicate called SPECTRE (Special Executive for Counterintelligence, Revenge and Extortion), Bond at first displays his customary stocks in trade. He uses his own...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fate Worse than Death | 8/30/1963 | See Source »

The Second-Class Rackets. More than internal rivalry has sapped the strength of Cosa Nostra in recent years. Its profitable trafficking in narcotics and prostitution has become too dangerous. Now it has been reduced to such second-class rackets as Shylocking (lending money at exorbitant interest rates), gambling and extortion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: Their Thing | 8/16/1963 | See Source »

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