Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to one popular notion, the Mafia gang war in New York City is a quick, convenient and highly effective method of crime control. Mobsters slaying mobsters, the theory holds, makes for fewer mobsters. Even if that cynical hypothesis were morally acceptable, it would break down, because the gunplay between New York's embattled clans, which has claimed 23 known victims in the past 14 months, is being carried on by some singularly inept, trigger-happy hoods...
...gang war is really a private affair -any killing, even of criminals by criminals, is an affront to the community -but most people do not become indignant until innocent bystanders are involved. The latest incident occurred in the Neopolitan Noodle, a restaurant on Manhattan's Upper East Side that is frequented by members of the Colombo gang. The Gallo clan, bent on revenging the assassination of Crazy Joey Gallo (TIME, April 17), began staking out the restaurant in hope of catching the Colombos off guard. One night recently, a Gallo spy spotted four Colombo men gathered...
...commission met in emergency session, condemned the Gallo faction for killing so sloppily, and as a penalty ordered the Gallo band to be broken up among the other New York Mafia families. The Gallos, now led by Joey's kid brother Al, arrogantly refused and promised that their gang war would...
...small (5 ft. 7 in., 150 Ibs.), feisty man who once managed boxers, Eboli apparently was lured to a post-midnight meeting far from his Fort Lee, N.J., home by other mobsters on a pretext of discussing some urgent gang business. His burly chauffeur, Joseph Sternfeld, told police that Eboli was approaching his waiting car after the meeting when a truck sped past, shots erupted from it, and Eboli fell dead. Sternfeld said he did not see the killers. But he did not explain the contradictory fact that there were bloodstains on the inside of Eboli...
...brothers and buddies. The house speaker, bribed by the railroad, decides that the entire motion is out of order. This sits fine with Jesse (Robert Duvall), who fancies his "guerrilla raids," but Cole (Cliff Robertson) wants the pardon. To raise money for a counter-bribe to the speaker, the gang sets off to rob a bank in the small town of Northfield, Minn. Cole knows for a fact that the money is waiting for them inside the vault. He has seen it in a vision...