Word: gangland
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...Administration displays awareness of this "pool of patience" in its very arrogance: Stockman is still in office despite his iconoclastic admissions, so is Raymond Donovan, in the face of continuing allegations of gangland associations: and so are William Casey and William French Smith, in spite of disclosure of their financial mixdealings. And there is no sign that James Watt is on the way out, despite the furor over his letter to Israeli Ambassaror Moshe Areins which somewhat to blackmail American Jews into supporting his slash and burn land use policies Reagan seems confident that his adoring fans will forgive members...
...Picardo is now a federal witness who contends that he had collected payoffs from Donovan in the 1960s to arrange labor peace and had turned the cash over to Briguglio. Other FBI informants claim that Furino sometimes picked up such payments from Donovan. Briguglio was the victim of a gangland slaying in New York City in 1978 because, according to an informant, "Provenzano said that he had found out that Briguglio had talked to the federal people" and was "going to have...
...Sears rejuvenate both a rustic pond and himself? Before these questions are answered, a number of odd events occur: a beloved family dog is shot through the heart; Sears' ally in the pollution case is wiped out, gangland style; an infant is accidentally abandoned by the side of a highway; Sears stumbles into a brief and mystifying homosexual tryst. Amid all this activity, Cheever's attention regularly shifts to other matters. A scene in a supermarket veers into a meditation on the historical importance of commerce: "It is because our fortresses were meant to be impregnable that...
...took gangland violence by Yale to get the Crimson back into the game. In the midst of a lackluster stretch for both teams. Brooke cruised in on the Harvard net without the puck and blatantly decked goalie Lau with a forearm to the head...
...behalf, Sinatra brought seven character witnesses, including Actors Kirk Douglas and Gregory Peck, but made no mention of another friend: President Ronald Reagan, for whom Sinatra helped raise some $500,000 in campaign donations and organized a preInauguration gala. Reagan has said of Sinatra's reported gangland ties: "We've heard those things about Frank for years, and we just hope none of them are true." The control board decided that there were "no substantive reasons why he shouldn't have a gaming license" and issued Sinatra a temporary one that may be made permanent Witness Sinatra...