Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...balding, hunched-over man in the witness chair was Santo Trafficante, 63, the reputed Mafia boss in the Tampa area and former overlord of mob-owned gambling casinos in Havana...
...left the nuclear power hearings, a mob of reporters surrounded Gov. Edmund G. (Jerry) Brown of California like ants bearing food, questioning him on Proposition 13 and federal spending...
...problem is the suspects' fear of being permanently silenced by the Mob. Brill describes O'Brien as living in such terror of Tony Pro that he hid under a bed for two days at the Teamsters' Las Vegas convention in 1976. Last March Salvatore Briguglio was shot to death outside a restaurant in New York's Little Italy to keep him from talking to the FBI about the Hoffa case. Agents promptly tried to convince the other suspects that they had a better chance to survive as protected Government witnesses than on the loose...
...defendant going to get me when he gets out of jail?' " When the Institute for Law and Social Research asked witnesses in Washington, D.C., what they needed most, the largest single response was "better protection." Intimidation is not just limited to witnesses who squeal on the mob or run afoul of mad bombers. In suburbia, parents wonder what retribution is in store for them- or more worrisome, for their small children- if they turn teen-agers in for petty vandalism. Intimidation is a major problem, not just in felony cases, but in misdemeanor courts as well...
...been rocked by sectarian violence that resulted in at least 16 other deaths. Outraged by Western-style diversions that they consider affronts to Islamic tradition, fanatic Shi'ites had set fire to 29 movie houses and scores of restaurants and nightclubs. In Babol on the Caspian Sea, a mob tried to prevent the opening of a touring Italian circus, retreating only after its owner threatened to let loose his lions on the crowd...