Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...others it sounded more like a fairy tale. Police and gangsters alike scoffed at Valachi's melodramatic re cital of his initiation into the mob...
...This knife and gun business is nonsense-strictly amateur-night material," said one. Added a cop: "Valachi must be talking off the top of his head. We know that some of these things can only be hearsay because by his own testimony he was only small potatoes in the mob. He just wouldn't have been privy to what was happening...
...crush Malaysia at all costs. On the Sarawak frontier, an Indonesian mortar company lobbed shells across the border. Deepening Indonesia's quarrel with Britain, which is pledged to defend Malaysia, government troops in Djakarta barred British diplomats from entering their embassy, gutted fortnight ago by an unchecked mob. The guards even tried to break into the embassy's fireproof code room until they were stopped by tough, stocky Ambassador Andrew Gilchrist, who forced his way into the embassy and stood guard over the strong room himself...
...skilled mob orator, Sukarno is whipping up furious chauvinistic feeling. Before a screaming crowd of 30,000 in the central Javanese city of Djokjakarta last week, he ranted that Malaysia (pop. 10 million) had been created "to corner Indonesia" (pop. 100 million). The fact that Malaysia has no army to speak of, compared with his own jet-and-missile-equipped 400,000-man force, was an incongruity that did not deter Sukarno. "The flowering of the Indonesian people will not retreat in the face of colonialism," he said. "We must fight and destroy Malaysia." Last week Foreign Secretary Lord Home...
Indonesia's mob diplomacy served Sukarno well. In heating up a new crisis over Malaysia, he has created an issue to take the minds of his underfed, underemployed people off Indonesia's slide toward economic ruin and once again raised the specter of a bloody, interminable guerrilla war in the steaming thickets of Borneo. For the new nation of Malaysia, it was an ominous, inauspicious start...