Word: informers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...several forms. One of the simplest is extortion. The gangsters might thus inform a small businessman, who has perhaps only a dozen employees, that from that minute on his enterprise is unionized. Though the employees may never know that they belong to a "union"?and never receive any of the benefits of being in a union ?the employer nevertheless pays the "union organizers" the workers' initiation fees and monthly dues. In another variation, the bogus union settles for "sweetheart" contracts that are grossly unfair to the workers it is supposed to represent. The difference between what a legitimate...
...when it made him bishop last year. The Vatican daily L'Osservatore Romano reported that only Defregger's "immediate superiors"-led by Munich's Julius Cardinal Döpfner, one of the main liberal architects of Vatican II -knew of the incident, and they did not inform the Holy...
...frightful story," the novelist wrote in a copyrighted article in London's Sunday Telegraph. It is the story of a man haunted and hounded by Russia's massive secret security apparatus, the KGB. It is the painful record of an individual who, because he was expected to inform on friends, was forced into one moral crisis after another. Determined to escape, he finally resorted to an act of sheer desperation. It was, he says, "the animal instinct for self-preservation, probably-I was at least a living being...
...fantasy, his novel locates itself in a never-never world of secret government installations. It is the revelation of purported government secrets that make the book so compelling. For example, if a contaminated satellite falls within the Soviet or Eastern Bloc territory the United States had decided not to inform the Russians of what had happened. "The basis of this decision was the prediction that a Russian plague would kill between two and five million people, while combined Soviet-American losses from a thermonuclear exchange involving both first-and second-strike capabilities would come to more than two hundred...
...next morning a delegation from the Cortes drove to the Prince's palace outside Madrid to inform him officially that he would succeed Franco as Chief of State when the Caudillo, now 76, steps down or dies. Later the same day, Juan Carlos, whose new official title is Prince of Spain, drove to the Cortes for the investiture. Kneeling at Franco's left, the Prince swore his loyalty "to his Excellency the Chief of State and fidelity to the principles of the National Movement, and the fundamental laws of the Kingdom...