Word: gangland
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...across the plaza was arrested. The government also promised a "swift and definitive" resolution of the 1984 incident. Welcome as those actions were, they brought little comfort to the grieving family and friends of Evelio Javier, or to the thousands of Filipinos who wonder how democracy can survive amid gangland violence...
...prime suspects in the Camarena-Zavala case are still two Mexican drug kingpins, Miguel Felix Gallardo and Rafael Caro Quintero. But the U.S. believes that Mexico's gangland "families" have been operating with wide- scale police protection. Officers who were supposedly tracking Caro Quintero in connection with the Camarena case claimed they simply failed to recognize the well-known crook when he boarded a private plane in Guadalajara two days after the agent's abduction. Caro Quintero flew to Caborca, a remote desert town where he may now be in hiding...
When Father Jerzy Popieluszko, 37, was abducted on a lonely stretch of road outside the city of Torun on Oct. 19, many Poles refused to believe that the popular priest could have been the victim of gangland-style violence. During the grimmest hours of military rule, Popieluszko's eloquence and passionate dedication had offered hope to many Poles that the spirit of Solidarity, the banned trade-union movement, would somehow survive. But each passing day brought new revelations of involvement by the secret police in a plot to silence Popieluszko. Hope for the priest's safe return soon...
...million in all, some say) Harlem jazz-era epic with Richard Gere, Diane Lane and Gregory Nines. Says Evans of Coppola, in one reported sample of the prevailing civility: "He has as much respect for money as I do for Gaddafi." Waving aside intimations of drug abuse and gangland connections, Judge Hill left Evans in charge but gave final authority over post-production decisions to Associate Producer Barrle Osborne, who is backed by Coppola and the Doumanis. Meanwhile, one Hollywood agent is said to have found the off-camera yarn so interesting that he offered $500,000 for screen rights...
When Chicago Mobster Sam Giancana was executed gangland-style in his Oak Park, Ill., home in 1975, FBI agents were gleeful. At last they had a chance to search the house that Giancana used as his command post for Mafia operations. But when they swung open the front door, the investigators were astonished. Instead of the expected depot of pistols and machine guns, they found a cache ofobjets d'art and religious mementos, including a photograph of Giancana having a private audience with Pope Pius XII. Later, when this trove was sold at auction, Giancana's daughter Antoinette...