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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week in New York City, he unveiled a far-reaching civil lawsuit, charging 26 reputed mobsters and the Teamsters' 18 top executives with making a "devil's pact" to subvert the nation's largest union. Filed under the Racketeer-Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, the suit aims to oust the union's entire leadership, replacing it with a court-appointed trustee who will supervise the "free and fair" election of a new executive board...
...record industry heard it through the grapevine: Berry Gordy Jr., the former Detroit autoworker who founded Motown Records nearly 30 years ago, was shopping the company around. No one was dancing in the streets about that idea, since Motown ranks as one of the largest black-owned businesses in the U.S. But last week Gordy announced that he would sell it to the Los Angeles- based entertainment conglomerate MCA and a group of private investors for $61 million...
...mixture of cajolery, cash incentives and hard-knuckle politics to oust military officers from top provincial and party posts. Since 1985, 1 million men and women, including 455,000 officers, have been mustered out. Though still 3.5 million strong, the PLA has lost its position as the world's largest military organization to the 5.2 million-member Soviet armed forces. Last week Beijing announced that another 70,000 army officers would relinquish their uniforms and take government jobs. The military's share of the national budget, now $5.8 billion, has declined from 17.5% in 1979 to 8.5%. (The U.S. spends...
...Coral Gables, Fla., to Plaza Guadalupe in San Antonio, the Latin elements promise sunlight and accessibility, a sense of invitation. "I've always liked porches, arcades and transitional spaces that are open on the sides," says Miami Architect Hilario Candela, a partner in what he claims is the largest Hispanic-owned design and construction firm in the U.S. "Most Latin public spaces are essentially gregarious in style. I see it as an outdoor living room without a roof...
...bought dollars, most central banks stood by idly until the momentum began to grow. The banks of eight European countries -- West Germany, Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Spain and Belgium -- finally intervened by unloading some of their stocks of the currency. But the dollar kept climbing because the two largest countries -- the U.S. and Japan -- refused to resist the trend...