Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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State's ousted Immigration Consultant Edward Corsi called the program a "national scandal" (TIME, May 2). Cried Corsi: "Refugees are investigated to death" by McLeod's "security gang." Actually the security check has barred very few refugees. Out of 2,199 applicants in Germany and Austria, only 51 have been rejected on grounds of security...
Minor Repairs. Perón meanwhile went on to repair some lesser damage. By pointedly refraining from filling the Cabinet vacancies with army officers, he kept the army in its place, which (for the higher officer corps) seems to be that of a dictator-admiring gang, happy with the pay, perquisites and polite graft that Perón provides. Despite persistent reports that the rebellious elements of the navy still had some bargaining power, he removed revolt-leading Rear Admiral Anibal Olivieri from comfortable barracks arrest to the National Penitentiary, and arrested officers at the Belgrano naval base. Then...
...free-lance writer for the Miami Daily News, Jane Wood specializes in offbeat features, seldom lands on the front page. But last week one of Reporter Wood's offbeat features touched off Miami's biggest crime story of the year, exposed a robbery gang led by two cops, and caused another shake-up in Miami's police department, already riddled by bribery charges...
...clear his conscience he sent a message to Jane Wood that he wanted to tell her the whole story of the robbery gang. She went up to the De Land state prison camp where Home confessed to her four other holdups, named five accomplices, including Miami Policemen Peter Balma and Lewis Womack. The two cops, said Home, picked out easy robbery victims while on their motorcycle rounds, gave the names and addresses to Home and his partner, Gerard Casselli, collected 25% of their take...
Miami police picked up Casselli, who also confessed and corroborated Home's story. One of the gang leaders, Policeman Womack, was killed in an unexplained boat explosion last summer. But Balma, 27, was still on the force. He was called in off his beat, stripped of his badge and pistol, suspended from the force and charged with robbery. Reporter Wood saw it all, wrote the story, gave the Daily News a clean beat over the Herald. She also scored a clean beat over her husband; he is the Herald's crime specialist...