Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...report this week's cover story on the Mafia, our third in eight years, TIME correspondents in five major cities interviewed local federal authorities, talked with gangsters and followed their elusive tracks into casinos, pizza parlors, skyscraper offices and political hangouts. Covering the Mob casts the reporter in the role of sleuth-cultivating sources, comparing notes and collating data into hypotheses. Among the correspondents doing this detective work were New York Bureau Chief Laurence Barrett and John Tompkins, who are no strangers to the machinations of the Mob. Barrett edited TIME's first Mafia cover in 1969; Tompkins...
...gangsters in New York City often "look the same, talk the same and come from the same backgrounds." At one lunch with a detective, Tompkins saw his source exchanging wary greetings ("How's the wife?") with some men at a nearby table. They were members of the Mob. Both sides are reluctant to talk: the Mafiosi fear exposure, and the police hesitate to divulge information that might cripple prosecutions. "Occasionally, a criminal thinks the reporter will be a future help and comes to us," says Barrett...
After weeks of digging, our correspondents developed some new perceptions of the Mafia. Says Tompkins: "The morality of the Mob is somewhat closer to the morality of the average American citizen than it used to be. The Mafiosi always said they were no more corrupt than anyone else, and today more and more people might agree." Barrett notes some disturbing reasons for the Mafia's increasing success: "The public is a willing victim of organized crime-buying black-market cigarettes and participating in illegal gambling. It's also difficult for people to think of some racketeer-who lives...
...file citizens" across the country to contribute money to defray the cost of the occupiers' incarceration. "Our battle of today can become theirs of tomorrow," Thomson said Friday, advising other states contemplating construction of nuclear plants or already employing them that they too might be "invaded by a mob...
...then. The gentleman to my left, for example, who had shaved half his head and tied what was left of his hair into a ponytail, crooned continuously about the moon melting and the pavement swelling. When the police made a move as if to open the doors, the mob pressed together so closely that someone's elbow forced my camera to take a picture of the inside of my poncho. For more than half an hour everyone struggled to breathe and not to let anyone cut in front, as if such mobility were possible. A scene like that makes...