Word: mafia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Contract on America: The Mafia Murder of President John F. Kennedy...
...symbolic importance of Kennedy's assassination explains our morbid fascination with his death. Though only a lone gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald, was blamed for Kennedy's murder, since 1963, books accusing the Cubans, the Mafia, and even the CIA have become a veritable cottage industry. The worst of these have had all the marks of crack-pot conspiracy theories, delegitimizing the conclusion reached even by a 1979 government committee that Kennedy probably was the victim of a conspiracy...
...comes David Scheim's Contract on America: The Mafia Murder of President John F. Kennedy, already in at least its fourth printing, even though its official publication date was early this month. One hopes that, barring the increasingly unlikely discovery of new evidence, Scheim's exhaustively-researched will bring an end to the genre...
...stint in Cambridge helps gain admittance. In fact, some aides openly worry about the appearance of a Harvard mafia. The Governor's closest confidant is his Harvard Law School roommate Paul Brountas. As campaign chairman, Brountas, 56, is a lot like the candidate, always erring on the side of caution. But when staffers want to make a special appeal to Dukakis, they usually do it through his old friend. Should Dukakis win in the fall, Brountas, a senior partner at Hale and Dorr, would be a likely candidate for Attorney General...
...elaborate scheme, the Mafia used South American cocaine to buy heroin in Italy for resale in U.S. markets. Rather than seize individual drug couriers, DEA agents followed them to ferret out their network. The new scheme seemed to produce results, although some of the friendships formed along the way were obviously short-lived...