Word: mafia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which is Saudi Arabia's largest trading partner. One-third of the Saudi government's present Cabinet ministers are American graduates. So many of the country's young technocrats received their training at U.C.L.A., Stanford, Caltech and other nearby institutions that they are known collectively as the California Mafia...
...Steiger) opens his McClellanesque hearings with evidence culled from the recently disenchanted (and just murdered) Abe, one major chunk of the committee's case rests on the report of the bludgeoning. The rest of the questioning deals with the relationship which Kovak's Teamster-clones have enjoyed with the Mafia during the union's meteoric climb in membership, a relationship which entangles the former Lord of Flatbush in a scandal the magnitude and significance of which he cannot quite grasp...
...mumble in convincing fashion, as the union's membership swells to several million under his leadership. Always attuned to the needs of the rank-and-file, Stallone is also aware of the importance of "push," and consequently falls into bad company: he inadvertently sells his soul to the Mafia (in the guise of mobster Babe Milano, played in sleazy enough fashion by Tony Lo Bianco), and watches--along with millions of Americans who saw him do so well against Apollo Creed--as his self-created American dream grows, and then collapses in disarray, about...
...apotheosize Stallone; yet in furthering--if unwittingly--the alienation of the rank-and-file from union leadership, Stallone at best emerges as an anti-hero. Cheered by crowds of truckers after being grilled mercilessly--and ludicrosly--by Steiger, Stallone is later gunned down by some deus ex Mafia who obviously resented the notion of Rocky Balboa dressing in a business suit...
...Adams has been unable to plug damaging leaks of FBI materials to the Mafia. In Cleveland, such leaks resulted last fall in the murders of two FBI informants and endangered a number of other sources...