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Former Marines like McCloskey point out that Marine guards held back a brick-throwing mob when the embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, was burned in 1979. But some say embassy guard duty, which the Marines shouldered in 1949, is unsuited for a group that is supposed to be a well-honed fighting force. Indeed, perhaps the most fundamental problem faced by the Marines, one that affects both their morale and their effectiveness, is that their mission has become murky...
...blue-collar Baltimore, 1963, these guys have Palm Springs tans. They drive Cadillacs that pull into their parking spaces like a Thanksgiving Day parade of metal sharks. Who are they -- the Mob? More like the lost patrol. They are middle-aged men without women, salesmen peddling an obsolete product: themselves. They take an artist's pride in the egregious frauds they dream up ) to sell some aluminum siding to a gullible homeowner. Ask them why they spend all this creative energy either on the job or drinking it off, and they will probably confess that they do it to support...
...Government, it was a disappointing setback. Gotti's acquittal marked federal prosecutors' first defeat in a vigorous war against the Mob that has put many organized-crime kingpins behind bars for long prison terms. Two weeks ago, in the "pizza connection" case, 17 mobsters were convicted of selling tons of heroin and cocaine through pizza parlors in the Northeast and Midwest. In December, eight of New York's powerful crime bosses were convicted of running a vast network of criminal activities. Last October, Philip Rastelli, head of the Bonanno family, and eight co-defendants were found guilty of racketeering. Last...
...prosecution, portraying Gotti as boss of the nation's most powerful Mafia family, the Gambino organization, based its racketeering case on the testimony of mob turn-coats...
...lost pay. Twice, that same situation has cost Tom Kite tournament championships and a total of $59,800. Such scrupulous honesty is the rule in professional golf, though there are exceptions. Using her trusty antitrust iron, Jane Blalock once had to go to court to fight off a lynch mob of fellow competitors who wanted to ban Blalock for the way she marked her ball on the green. Bob Toski, her teaching pro at the time, prescribed professional help of a different kind. Publicly he wondered if she wasn't "subconsciously" compelled to win. In the epilogue last year, Toski...