Word: extortionate
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Phillip Agee is one of the countless victims of the demise of the American political raison d'etre. He is also one of its assassins, Between 1960 and 1969 Agee served as a CIA officer in Latin America. He is a guilty man, and his book, CIA Diary, is a...
The American publishers were partially correct. CIA Diary is a boring and poorly-written book, but it is also a saddening and ultimately enraging book. In its matter-of-fact listing of CIA activities it reveals the raw first of American power, the bulldozer that has slashed, torn and crushed...
Once on the job in Philadelphia, the new prosecutor found himself in the middle of a factional political war between Rizzo's forces and those answering to the Democratic city committee chairman Peter Camiel. Phillips offended both factions by allying himself with neither and prosecuting malefactors in both camps...
Scarcely intimidated by the prospect of being fired, both barrels still blazing, Phillips was stalking bigger prey last week. An investigating grand jury has recommended the indictment of Hillel Levinson, Philadelphia's managing director, on a number of charges, including extortion. Complained Levinson's boss, Frank Rizzo: "A...
On the other hand, if a crank or an ignoramus took the Urbino paintings, they may have been jettisoned or destroyed by now, in panic. Siviero is inclined to discount the concrete-bunker theory-the mad millionaire gloating over stolen masterpieces in solitude. The collector, he believes, "wants to be...