Word: honored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...march, a 300-mile pilgrimage to raise funds for a Texas Viet Nam veterans memorial, began in Dallas Oct. 19 and is to conclude on Veterans Day at the Alamo, in San Antonio, where the veterans will honor 161 Texas servicemen listed as missing in action. Westmoreland led the group along Interstate 35 just south of the small town of Pflugerville, then joined them the following day on the steps of the Texas capitol, in Austin, to accept a proclamation from Governor Mark White supporting the event. It was Westmoreland's second such march; in 1982 he led a procession...
...show- business mogul must put on a good show. So there he stood last month sipping Perrier at a Beverly Hills reception, flashing a smile and chatting comfortably with the likes of Jack Nicholson and Dino De Laurentiis. Stars and studio bosses had all turned out. The party, in honor of Murdoch and his wife Anna, was the perfect opportunity for everyone to size up the Australian-born newspaper tycoon who has become America's newest video czar...
...turned out a stream of hits that included Terms of Endearment and Flashdance. One early result of Diller's stewardship is Commando, the hit film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, which has grossed $27.1 million in its first four weeks. 20th Century-Fox also distributed the black comedy Prizzi's Honor (revenues: $27 million), starring Jack Nicholson, and has high hopes for this season's Plenty, a drama featuring Meryl Streep...
...began, and in the U.S., the criminal organization at one time imposed a strict, almost old-fashioned, moral code. Starting as a low-ranking "soldier," Buscetta said, "I was to be silent, not to look at other men's wives or women, not to steal." All "men of honor," as members called themselves, pledged never to lie to one another. Buscetta was suspended from Mafia activities for six months in 1952 for breaking the code. "I betrayed my wife," he admitted. Buscetta told how one insider could tell whether he was being introduced to another. "My friend" was the term...
Palermo's men of honor had long since abandoned their ideals by the late '70s, when savage gang wars broke out over control of the U.S. heroin trade. Two of Buscetta's sons, a brother and four other relatives were killed during the bloodletting in Sicily. Buscetta, by then a Mafia chieftain, fled to Brazil, where he was arrested in 1983 on a fugitive warrant from Italy. He was talking now, he explained, because he wanted "security for my family." Some undisclosed survivors in his family (which includes his Brazilian-born third wife) are under U.S. protection...