Word: lessening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...apparently was a coincidence, but mobsters worried about informants who might cooperate with prosecutors to lessen their own penalties could take no comfort from hearings conducted in Miami last week by the President's Commission on Organized Crime. That group paraded a number of former Mafiosi who publicly regretted their criminal past. Luigi Ronsisvalle, 44, told of growing up in Sicily, where he followed Mafia developments "like an American kid follows baseball." He said he spent 13 years in the syndicate, mostly as a hit man, after moving to New York City, and eventually killed 13 people. He also took...
...case, the Soviets left no doubt that killing Star Wars remains their prime objective. Shultz last week devoted many of his 14 hours of talks with Gromyko to explaining the U.S. position that successful development of a defensive system would enhance nuclear stability and lessen the danger of a cataclysm. He got nowhere. Gromyko once grumbled, "I have heard six explanations of SDI and I still do not understand your point." In his departure statement, which he read to reporters in English, Moscow's Foreign Minister took care to note that "the Soviet side particularly stressed the importance of preventing...
...generation needs to be able to communicate with the understand the Soviets in order to lessen the paranoia which arrounds them," Jones said...
...organizing the 1981 killings of two U.S. land-reform advisers, to be discharged from the army without pension. Duarte's move came only a week after the Salvadoran Supreme Court threw out the case against the former lieutenant. Nonetheless, the President charged that the rebel plan would not lessen the toll of war. Said he: "The rebels do not want to humanize the conflict because they say it is their strategy to prolong a war to destroy the country. They do not want a truce...
...allegations were presented at a three-day hearing in New York City held by the President's Commission on Organized Crime. Led by Federal Judge Irving Kaufman, it was created in July of last year to investigate, publicize and suggest ways to lessen the impact of organized crime in the U.S. The hearings last week focused on Japanese, Chinese and Vietnamese gangs. Attorney General William French Smith, the lead-off witness, warned that "organized crime has entered a new historical phase-its international phase." Judge Kaufman contended that some of the Asian gangs terrorized their immigrant communities and accounted...