Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gone, No Forwarding by Joe Gores (Random House; $6.95). Gores, 46, who was a card-carrying private eye in California before switching to literary license, dissects a Mob-connected conspiracy to sue, harass and murder the Bay Area-based Dan Kearny Associates detective agency out of business. DKA, as in two previous novels, survives-after an adrenaline-pumping, nationwide search for a missing witness, conducted in large part by the niftiest black op in the literature...
...patient was the tone of a message sent to Rome's daily Il Messaggero. Italian underworld bosses, supposedly annoyed that the intensive police presence was hurting business, issued an "ultimatum" demanding Moro's release by 4 p.m. last Thursday -or else the boys from the mob would see to it that their colleagues behind bars would bump off Red Brigades members who were in prison...
...hundred yards I was treading the virgin snow, and then suddenly I saw the mob everywhere. Happy people--children in colorful clothes performing gleeful antics, dogs running wild, and a host of cross-country skiers...
...Panama Canal treaties: charges linking Moisés Torrijos, the brother of Panama's strongman, General Omar Torrijos, to heroin smuggling in the U.S. Called at the insistence of Kansas Republican Robert Dole and other treaty opponents, the two-day session attracted as many as 70 Senators, practically a mob in Capitol Hill terms. But when the doors reopened at midweek, after 14 hours of testimony and discussion, the great drug drama turned out to be something of a bust...
...disaffected former West Pointer who has written mainly in Manhattan's Village Voice, never flatly accuses Charles Allen of direct Mafia connections, but the implications are strong. For example, he calls Allen "the godfather of Hollywood," and traces his rise in the film industry through a maze of allegedly Mob-infiltrated enterprises. According to Truscott, Charles Allen in 1955 bought a 25% stake in a Bahamian company that controlled a casino that was "manipulated" by Crime Boss Meyer Lansky, and one of Allen's partners in the venture was Wallace Groves, a convicted swindler. Then, aided by funds from...