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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...loans from the fund in 1974. The trustee advised Glick to see Frank Balistrieri, the Mafia's top man in Milwaukee. The indictment claims that Balistrieri and Joe Aiuppa, the Chicago boss, wielded their influence with other unnamed directors of the Teamsters fund to get the mon ey. Glick used the loans to buy four casinos, including the Star dust and the Fremont...
Compared with Watergate, a scandal like Teapot Dome was onedimensional, a routine political corruption played out at high levels. Watergate was crucially different. It was not a grab for mon ey, but for power; that distinction, in a democracy, is everything. Moneygrubbing is unsavory. Power grabbing, the plot to steal an election (which, weirdly enough, was already safely assured), was infinitely more serious. It was an attack on the American idea. That is important because if America loses its idea, it becomes merely sordid and fallen and dangerous...
...only damage was to the Royals' pride. Willie Wilson, who this season became only the second player to get 100 hits both left- and righthanded while averaging .326, suffered the cruelest fate. His Series-ending strikeout set a new record for whiffs (twelve). Brett, ey ing Wilson's empty locker after the leftfielder had fled to the showers, sympathized with his teammate: "Willie did things this year no player has ever done before, but this is what people will remember, the strikeouts...