Word: grand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time, Gallina was a key witness before a Newark grand jury, testifying, among other things, on Mafia executions by a special hit squad armed with silencer-equipped .22-cal. automatic pistols. The ".22-cal. hitters" have claimed at least 20 victims in the past two years, including six FBI informants and potential witnesses. Though Attorney Gallina, who had defended major crime figures-notably, members of the East Coast Genovese Mafia family-was killed by .38-cal. bullets, he was undoubtedly the 21st victim. Federal officials blame his slaying on a leak from the grand jury; leaks from secret Government files...
Gallina's closed-door testimony concerned four top Genovese family gangsters: New Jersey's Vincent Gigante, John DiGilio, Salvatore Briguglio and Tommy Principe. The FBI considers all four to be prime suspects in ordering .22-cal. murders. Gallina told the grand jury how the Genovese leaders moved racket money into real estate in upstate New York...
...playing just that Marxist maverick role, however, Carrillo has won much attention. Cambio 16, a respected Madrid weekly, has described him as "one of the most Machiavellian, intelligent and chameleon-like politicians on the world scene." That is somewhat grand, considering the small size of Carrillo's party (claimed membership: 100,000) and the preference of most Spaniards for middle-road politics. Now Carrillo is trying to draw the more popular Socialists into a consensus on how to further democratize Spain, in order to blur their image as the dominant party on the left...
Thus foreign pressure is not in contention in the election campaign. What is at stake, ultimately, is whether the government will be able to carry on with the Afrikaners' grand scheme of apartheid?also known as "separate development" and more recently as "plural democracy." The purpose of apartheid is the preservation of the language, culture and political power of the Afrikaners?the unique white tribe on a continent of black tribes. Unlike the white settlers of Rhodesia or the French pieds-noirs of Algeria, the Afrikaners have no ties to a European motherland. After more than three centuries in South...
...room at its recently expanded Tahoe hotel cost $100,000 to construct and contains two baths with telephones and miniature Sony TV sets. A similarly posh addition is planned eventually for Reno, where the company faces new competition next year from two large hotels now under construction, the MGM Grand and the Sahara. In still another move designed to boost income, Harrah's has begun manufacturing more $1 one-armed bandits-slot machines that take a dollar to play. They produce higher revenue per pull and are even more profitable than the company's moneymaking nickel and dime...