Word: henchmen
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...ignorant working-class housewife, has stayed behind to clean up the cramped flat she shares with her boorish husband and six kids. Gabriele, a bachelor who is an out-of-work radio announcer and antiFascist, has shut himself in to contemplate his certain confinement by il Duce's henchmen...
...East 28th Street in full view of passers-by and a policeman. The officer arrested a suspect, Canadian Joseph Djaija, 26. Some law enforcement officials believe DeCurtis was killed because of a private quarrel over gambling rights in the Astoria section of Queens. But Dellacroce was suspicious and sent henchmen to Montreal, an important link in Galante's narcotics network. The avengers pushed around several Galante associates but found no proof that he had ordered DeCurtis' murder...
...current difficulties date from the March 7 parliamentary elections, in which his ruling Pakistan People's Party won 155 out of 200 seats in the National Assembly. The opposition Pakistan National Alliance, a coalition of nine parties, won only 36 seats. They charged that Bhutto's party henchmen had "massively and immorally rigged" the election by terrorizing polling places and stuffing ballot boxes...
...very tough race against the Republican candidate: former U.S. Attorney James R. Thompson. Thompson is the reformer who has sent dozens of Daley's closest friends and associates to jail in recent years and the mere mention of his name is enough to make the Mayor and his henchmen apoplectic...
...tactics of despair"-meaning violent anarchism, which he saw as the self-defeating actions of "a petty bourgeois driven to frenzy"-she gave little sign of it. As co-leader and theoretician of West Germany's notorious Baader-Meinhof gang of far-left terrorists, she and her henchmen blasted a gory path of bombings, bank robberies and shootouts that continued even after her capture in 1972. Last week Meinhof used desperation's last resort against herself. Guards at Stuttgart's Stammheim prison, where she, along with three fellow terrorists, had been confined for a year, found Meinhof...