Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...case illustrated once again the growing problem of defending U.S. diplomats abroad against the threat of abduction or assassination. Some two dozen U.S. embassies abroad have been specially fortified against mob assault, and stepped-up security measures are being used to protect officials living in diplomatic compounds. But U.S. officials admit that it is next to impossible to give 24-hour security to people living in private apartments, such as Ray, Chapman and Brigadier General James Dozier, who was abducted by the Red Brigades in Italy on Dec. 17. Officials in Rome said last week that they saw no link...
...shots rang across St. Peter's Square last May, one witness recalled, like "the popping of a string of firecrackers." Pope John Paul II lay grievously wounded, and a right-wing Turkish fanatic, Mehmet Ali Agca, 23, barely escaped being torn to pieces by an angry mob for attempting to kill the Pope. Ever since, Agca has claimed that he acted alone. But right from the start, Italian police and the judges who sentenced him to life imprisonment felt to the contrary, yet were strangely reluctant to pursue their leads. Last week Italian investigators finally declared that they...
...hand of Linda Margarita Burgos, an elementary schoolteacher from Merida, Mexico. Valenzuela, suited up in a black tuxedo, and Linda, dressed in a $3,000 gown, took their vows in the bride's home town. Valenzuela sneaked into the church by a back entrance to avoid a mob of well-wishers. Outside, many would-be guests were barred from the church by dozens of plainclothes policemen fearful that the crowd would charge the doors. The nuptials, presided over by two bishops and an archbishop, were broadcast nationally. Valenzuela, a cool customer on the mound, sweated the ceremony. After...
This time Matthau is a career assassin, eradicating Mob stool pigeons with the weary professionalism of a top C.P.A., and Lemmon, a network censor and a jilted husband poised to end his misery in suicide. They meet on their mutual missions, in a hotel room. For Matthau it is loathe at first sight; for Lemmon it is a last grab at camaraderie before lights out. See how they run on the treadmill of French farce, tripping over each other's discomfort, overdosing on the crudest twists of plot...
...Human Resources Committee that Mobster Ralph Picardo had claimed to have received regular payoffs from Donovan in the 1960s for labor peace. Picardo had testified for the Government to help convict several Teamsters Union officials of racketeering. According to the FBI Picardo contended that Briguglio, a victim of a mob execution in 1978, had shared these payoffs. When asked about this at his Senate hearings, Donovan denied giving any bribes, called Picardo "murdering slime" and testified three times that he had never even met Briguglio. Because the FBI reported that it could not verify Picardo's charges, the committee...