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...conflict. In the past, the emergence of a boss of bosses like Gambino has usually resulted in a war. The modern Mafia was reorganized in the 1930s, and the Commission was established after bloody battles to curb the power of a single leader. Gambino's assertion of leadership???quite apart from the Colombo family's need for revenge?makes it possible that a full-scale battle may erupt. Beyond doubt, the attempt to murder Joe Colombo has profoundly affected the Cosa Nostra. Gallo blocked off the street where he lives the night after the attack, and that same night, only...
...there any deliberate deception? "No. One of the problems here is exactly what is meant. In the practice of foreign policy, a President owes a good deal to certain elements of Congress ?the leadership???in the way of openness. But the President does not by any means owe that to all of Congress...
Fischer calls "firm moral leadership???and that is what we are not getting. We will...
...dust settle," in Dean Acheson's unforgettable words on China in 1949, rather than to seize the initiative. There are, however, other alternatives. At the extremes, the U.S. could either step up the war and resume the bombing of the North in an attempt to stampede the new leadership???or pull out completely, trusting in the South Vietnamese to cope with a Ho-less foe. No one in the Government seriously advocates either course...
...Massachusetts the campaigns of Senator William M. Butler and former-Senator David I. Walsh for election to the U. S. Senate were simultaneously opened. Hanford MacNider, onetime National Commander of the American Legion, spoke for Mr. Butler, praising his "leadership???strong, virile, unafraid" in expelling Senator Brookhart*. Governor Albert C. Ritchie opened for the veteran Mr. Walsh, dispraising prohibition...