Word: local
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...legend-the biggest high roller ever to be a respected cop." So boasted Donald ("Diamond Don") Gilman, 47, in March 1977 when he was appointed sheriff of Indianapolis. Stocky and balding, Gilman is a high school dropout who claims to have become a millionaire from operating four local health spas. He is noted for his huge roll of banknotes, flashy cars and ostentatious jewelry. He brags about his junkets to Las Vegas, including gambling losses of $30,000 during one weekend...
Then he got embroiled in a scandal involving the county's 850 special deputies-mostly retired policemen, private security guards and cronies of local politicians. Special deputies can carry guns and make arrests and usually work as guards in schools and businesses or as police auxiliaries in the suburbs. In March, after a drunken special deputy was killed in a shootout with state police, reporters for the Indianapolis Star started investigating. When Gilman refused to tell them his special deputies' names, the Star began referring to them as his "secret police." In response, Gilman revoked all the special...
...Local newspapers bewailed the loss. Then City Representative Joseph LaSala wrote the Philadelphia Inquirer to confess, "I am the ogre who made the decision not to spend $45,000 on this delightful piece of sculpture...
...easy wit was still shipshape that afternoon when his red helicopter dropped out of a gray sky into the grimy valley town of Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. He had come to dedicate the $11 million Prince Charles Hospital, a 362-bed facility that some valley residents fear will shut down local hospitals. "Not to worry," said Charles, striding up to a sign-carrying demonstrator. "We have to put this hospital somewhere." Plowing along a line of well-wishers, he joked with a mother of six children ("You're going to heavily populate the pediatrics ward"), then moved inside to greet ranks...
...Brigades' "Communiqué No. 9" hit Rome like a thunderclap. Premier Giulio Andreotti interrupted a meeting with government economic experts to confer with Interior Minister Francesco Cossiga. Benigno Zaccagnini, secretary of the Christian Democratic Party, delayed a projected campaign trip for the May 14 local elections and rushed to the party headquarters in the Piazza del Gesu. In the Senate, where a debate on a bill to legalize abortion had just ended, Senators milled around in the corridors asking for the latest news. The President of the Senate, Amintore Fanfani, drove to the home of the kidnaped politician, where...