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...Goon Squad. Perhaps the best that one can expect is to be picked up by the Public Safety Unit (P.S.U.), which is charged with tracking down ordinary criminals. This strong-arm squad usually drags the victim off to Makindye prison and beats him blue around the genitals, then extorts money or property before letting him go. The power of the paramilitary agents is theoretically limited, but Amin pays little attention to their behavior, so they are free to beat, extort and even kill...
Allen, 53, a stout, weathered native of Anderson, S.C., knows what he is talking about. In 15 years as an organizer, first for the Textile Workers Union of America, now for the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, he has been beaten up by goon squads, harassed by police and blacklisted by scores of employers. More than once he has stared down the muzzle of a gun. He has felt the force of community as well as employer hostility. Says he: "I've been in campaigns where everyone's against me -the newspapers, the bankers, the politicians...
...seized control of flight 355 by threatening that at least one of the group would detonate an explosive he had presumably carried on board under his clothes; such a bomb would not be detectable with present airport security systems. The leader was a beefy, bearded man. "He was the goon, but he was nice," recalled one passenger, James Perkins, a regional sales manager for Schenley. "He kept his hand in his pocket all the time, as if he had a gun." One of the skyjackers was a young woman who claimed she was an American and was married to another...
...world goes Red, you offer two miserable choices: either smile like a helpless goon or start World War III. There is another way: wake up, drive hard bargains, get tough in the U.N., act sensibly...
Probably far more important than anything coming out of the recall campaign will be effect the libel suit and lawless mob will have on future coverage of Philadelphia and other cities' politics. If adversary relations stay tough, will there be future demonstrations and shutdowns by politicians' goon squads? Will papers feel free to satirize public officials if Rizzo wins his $6-million suit...