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Bario was a policeman in his native Italy until 1960, when he met his first wife and followed her to Detroit and then Washington. There he got a job as an investigator for the IRS Intelligence Division, infiltrating organized crime syndicates in Boston, New Orleans and Detroit. He became a federal narcotics agent in 1969. He is believed to have posed as a gambler in the Bahamas, dropping federal money at the roulette wheels of Paradise Island. He liked to wear Cardin suits and Dior shirts. Acting under cover, he became the lover of the mistress of a French heroin...
...been trivial. The only way that a deficit creates inflation is by overheating the economy, and we haven't had an overheated economy in five years." The opposing view, from Burns: "This persistence of substantial deficits in federal finances is mainly responsible for the serious inflation that got under way in our country in the mid-'60s ... and when the deficit increases at a time of economic expansion, as it has done lately, we should not be surprised to find the rate of inflation quickening...
...looks like an ambitious bank clerk, admits: "Cash offers are rarely defeated." Two years ago, he fended off Congoleum Corp.'s cash offer for Universal Leaf Tobacco. Says a Wall Street merger and acquisition specialist: "Marty tied Congoleum up for over eight months in the courts, and it got mauled so badly that it finally went away." The legal strategist representing Congoleum was Joe Flom...
Flom and Lipton first faced off in 1959, when Harvard-trained Flom represented management and Lipton, a graduate of New York University, represented a group of dissident shareholders in the United Industrial Corp. proxy fight. It was a draw. As Lipton recalls, "Joe got four seats on the board and we got four seats." Their first big tender fight was the $84 million Colt (Flom) takeover of Garlock (Lipton) where the term "Saturday Night Special" was coined to describe Colt's lightning raid. It is impossible to estimate which lawyer has a better winning record because even when...
Perhaps such significant shading is one reason why Le Monde's Middle East veteran, Eric Rouleau, reflects that U.S. journalism got trapped in clichés about "the progressive Shah" beset by "fanatic religionists." But when it comes to nationalism, how about the French? They allowed Ayatullah Khomeini a sanctuary they rarely grant other political exiles to campaign for the Shah's overthrow. Rouleau speculates that the French, miffed by being shut out of Iran's arms deals, "took a calculated bet that it wasn't a bad idea to be host...