Word: ils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from gambling, narcotics trafficking and bootlegging to extortion, assault and homicide. Galante first gained respect within the Mafia for his suspected involvement in the murder of Carlo Tresca, an Italian-American newspaper editor and enemy of Benito Mussolini; police believed that Tresca was knocked off at the urging of il Duce himself...
...common denominator of debtors in trouble is a kind of economic il literacy. Some live up to the limit of incomes that are suddenly reduced by layoffs or illness. Many ignore the extent to which inflation is reducing their ability to charge luxuries by raising the price of necessities. Most delinquent debtors never even add up what they owe until they are forced to, and then they are stunned by the totals. When Kevin White, 33, a fireman, and his wife Sharon, 30, a dental assistant, turned to the Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Greater New York in 1975, Sharon...
Died. Sergei Ilyushin, 82, Soviet aeronautics genius who designed more than 50 different airplanes, including the new IL-86 airbus soon to be put into service; in Moscow. Ilyushin's heavily armored low-flying tank buster called the Stormovik destroyed so many Nazi tanks in World War II that the Germans dubbed it "the flying death...
...great problems of all this history is thesis mongering, the intertwining of ideology and fashion with academic evidence. The black experience in the U.S., from slavery on ward, has been rich, immensely varied, extremely complicated and often difficult to lay hold of. Blacks in slavery were kept il literate and so left almost exclusively their oral tradition- which, of course, is what Roots...
While we place no faith in the North Korean Stalinist bureaucracy to extend social revolution to the South (or to anywhere else), we stand for unconditional military defense of the nationalized property forms in the North against imperialist attack. In North Korea, we call for political revolution against Kim Il Sung and his dynasty to establish the democratic rule of workers Soviets; in South Korea we understand that only a Trotskyist party with a revolutionary program of independent workers struggle against capitalism and its Stalinist collaborators can lead the way to socialist revolution...