Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...right." With that paean to Robert Kennedy and his long battle against the crime-ridden leadership of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani took on the task that has stymied Kennedy and other prosecutors for the past 30 years. Giuliani, however, comes to the fight armed with a powerful weapon...
Earlier prosecutors were forced to fight the union's corruption by charging individual leaders with specific crimes: Teamsters President Jackie Presser, for example, is under indictment for racketeering and embezzlement, and past Presidents Dave Beck, Jimmy Hoffa and Roy Williams all went to jail. RICO frees the Justice Department to take action against an entire institution. Building on more than 300 convictions of Teamsters and union-related Mob figures since 1970, the lawsuit portrays the leadership of the 1.6 million- member union as a front for the Mafia. Organized crime, charged Giuliani, "has deprived union members of their rights through...
...money earned from such sales is used not only to buy tanks, planes and other equipment but to develop new fighting strategies. Over the past three years the Chinese have created what they call "integrated corps," units of soldiers, sailors and marines, to fight potential invaders, and "fist squads," rapid-deployment forces designed to handle skirmishes along China's 4,150-mile border with the Soviet Union...
...might simply intervene in the markets and put the dollar back in its lowly place. In late June, however, that perception changed sharply. At their Toronto economic summit meeting, the leaders of the seven major industrialized countries, or G-7, issued a communique that showed no distinct resolve to fight a dollar rally, saying only that an increase in the currency's value "could be counterproductive." Traders took that language -- correctly or not -- as a subtle hint that a mild runup in the dollar would be tolerated...
...busting programs been separated by so little punctuation. Dukakis is the apostle of "targeted economic development," while Jackson has . stressed creating public service jobs to rebuild America's "infrastructure." The platform neglects to explain how "fiscal responsibility" might be achieved. But Jackson is likely to wage a convention floor fight on this point to insert a pledge to raise the taxes of the wealthy. Dukakis' likely response: "Go ahead, make...