Word: lambing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contribution if the bank were not reimbursed for such travel. The Senate Governmental Affairs Committee intends to reopen in two weeks its less than aggressive hearings into Lance's financial affairs. Democratic Chairman Abraham Ribicoff went into the earlier inquiry like a lion and came out like a lamb, lauding Lance and lambasting the press. He has already announced that he is satisfied that the comptroller's report has cleared Lance. At least two House committees are also considering related inquiries, and the Securities and Exchange Commission is studying whether Lance's management of his banks...
...accept a gradual transfer of power, have also been insisting that black Rhodesians be allowed to choose their leaders in free elections. But the Patriotic Front wants first to take power and then hold elections. Demonstrating their ability to separate ideology and gastronomy, delegates feasted on Rhodesian beef and lamb at Libreville banquets, then approved a resolution, proposed by Zambia's President Kenneth Kaunda, that virtually recognizes the Patriotic Front as the sole representative of black nationalists in Rhodesia. The front was designated as the only legitimate recipient of OAU financial...
...Graying, grandfatherly Aniello Dellacroce (translation: "little lamb of the Cross"), who has spent only six of his 62 years in prison, for attempted burglary, assault and tax evasion. He was long Gambino's underboss and chief peacemaker. As befits an ex-assassin for Albert Anastasia's Murder, Inc., Dellacroce settled disputes between rival clans by a direct method: having troublemakers eradicated. He took over the Gambino family soon after his release from prison last December after serving 4½ years for tax evasion and contempt of court...
TIME has learned that the Galante-Dellacroce conflict is ranging from Manhattan to Canada. The first casualties were two Galante spies discovered among Dellacroce's followers. The Little Lamb acted quickly to get rid of the black sheep; their bodies have not been found. Next, Dellacroce sent gunmen to Harlem to shoot a number of heroin dealers?then spread the word that Galante had ordered the hits. Dellacroce's goal was to disrupt Galante's connections with black Narcotics King Leroy ("Nicky") Barnes. Federal agents arrested Barnes on March 16, confiscating $1 million worth of heroin (he was released...
...Kathy W. Lamb Memphis...