Word: lawfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mafia memoirs of Joe Bonanno are seized by the law...
Many of the details of these recent activities were already in the hands of the law. Twice a week, beginning in 1975, a van would pull up to the Bonanno home and switch the plastic bags of garbage with similar-looking refuse. The authorities would then piece together Bonanno's torn-up notes from phone conversations, which recorded everything from the supplying of pizzeria equipment to concealing records from a grand jury (for which he is awaiting trial in San Francisco...
...dons were aghast when they learned that the authorities had seized Bonanno's book. An emergency meeting was called near Fort Lauderdale, but no decision was reached. The Mafia commission-established to "make law, to settle trouble, and to guarantee justice for all" -once again did not know what to do with the proud old man who liked to write his own rules, and his own history...
...Stevens products drew similar fire. That corporation has been cited for more than 100 labor law violations by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Stevens, the largest textile mill employing only non-union workers, has been charged with maintaining unsafe working conditions. Attempts to organize workers have failed repeatedly, and organizers have said the failures result because Stevens frightens and physically intimidates workers thinking about unionizing. Observers also have suggested that Stevens finds it cheaper to pay fines doled out for violations than to take the steps necessary to correct work situations cited as dangerous...
...education is still the unwanted bureaucratic child, roaming up and down Independence and Constitution Avenues in search of a permanent roosting place. By the end of the month, Congress may send a law establishing the Department of Education to the White House. But Carter must do more than sign the bill, take his bows and verbally grant education a new lease on life. If the legislation's proponents think the battle to establish the department has been long and hard, they had better remember that their fight has only just begun