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...crying babies. Unfortunately, this year newborns were not the only theater patrons unable to control their emotions. The cinema was brimming with two particularity heart-wrenching tales, the three-hour tragedy Titanic and the historical drama Amistad and with each showing another auditorium of Americans was left a whimpering mob...
SENTENCED. VINCENT ("The Chin") GIGANTE, 69, Mob boss whose famously odd behavior (namely, roaming the streets in a bathrobe) was judged a ruse; to 12 years in prison, for murder-conspiracy and racketeering; in New York City. Gigante was also fined $1.25 million...
...loss to Green Bay, the 49ers owner allegedly punched a Packers fan outside Lambeau Field. DeBartolo was publicly reprimanded by the NFL and agreed to pay a $2,500 charitable donation to the Vince Lombardi Cancer Fund. For years DeBartolo and his family have been plagued by allegations of Mob ties, although law enforcers have never substantiated such accusations...
When Ron Carey won the race for Teamsters president in 1991, he rode to power behind dissidents who had risked their jobs, and their lives, to fight mob control of their locals. But even before a federal overseer barred him from running again--the court had already nullified his re-election in August--Carey the reformer had become Carey the co-opted tyrant. Disaffected Teamsters dissidents have told TIME that Carey not only spurned his allies but also surrounded himself with a cadre of 1960s-era campus radicals with little taste for democracy...
...fact, Carey pollsters found last year that many rank-and-file members felt no better off under Carey than under mob-linked Teamsters bosses. Out of friends and desperate for cash, Carey turned to AFL-CIO leaders, who owed him a favor for his support of the 1995 election of AFL-CIO president John Sweeney...