Word: gangland
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...Khomeini is not only supported by radical Iraq and Libya but also is suspected by Western intelligence sources of receiving encouragement from the Soviet Union as well. Muslim leaders object not only to Khomeini's flirtation with the left but to the fact that his adherents in Iran use gangland tactics to frighten moderates...
...burning, in 1772, of the revenue schooner Gaspee, an early warning about Yankee distaste for King and custom's duties. Last year the rusty old fishing boat Dorchester turned up in the bay with six tons of marijuana hidden aboard, then departed leaving a web of mystery, gangland murder and suicide that narcotics agents have yet to unravel. Westward, the old naval air station at Quonset Point is now the sprawling headquarters for oil-drill teams working the Baltimore Canyon...
...Government's case will rest largely on the testimony of Jimmy ("the Weasel") Fratianno, 67, once the Mafia's No. 2 man in California and a well-traveled hit man himself. He began helping the FBI in return for protection after a falling out with his former gangland friends. Fratianno is believed by police to have committed up to 16 murders on the West Coast and helped plan others in New York and Ohio. Says one FBI official in Washington: "Fratianno knows what he's talking about. In many of those cases he was right there when...
Besides giving evidence on the Bompensiero murder, Fratianno has provided the FBI with details of at least ten West Coast gangland slayings since 1951. Most were disciplinary actions aimed at small-fry mobsters. He has also given authorities a firsthand account of the Mafia's Las Vegas rackets. He has described how Chicago Mob bosses demanded $1 million from an unnamed casino owner. When their regular Las Vegas contact, John Roselli, failed to collect the money, the dons ordered Roselli killed; he was asphyxiated in 1976 (Roselli gained notoriety in 1975 when he told a Senate committee that...
Gino Gallina, 42, a handsome former Manhattan assistant district attorney who became a lawyer for the Mob, was gunned down in gangland style on a Greenwich Village street. Seven bullets riddled Gallina, and he died 90 minutes later...