Word: outfitted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coalition charged intimidation of the black community by the "White Hats," a 600-member vigilante outfit formed and deputized during the 1967 disturbances. It also presented city officials with a list of seven demands, including appointment of a black police chief and assistant fire chief and a near equal black-white ratio in all city jobs. The demands and a boycott used to dramatize them touched off a rash of snipings, which ended only after Illinois Governor Richard Ogilvie sent in National Guardsmen to keep the peace...
...blackmailed South America's most powerful government, sprang a randy group of political prisoners from jail and got them to sanctuary in another country-on a Brazilian military plane. The abductors' note was signed by two bands-the National Liberation Action Group, a Brazilian anti-government underground outfit, and the October 8 Revolutionary Movement, or MR-8, a Castroite group that takes its name from the date of Che Guevara's 1967 capture in Bolivia. In return for Elbrick's life, the terrorists made two imaginative demands, to which the government hastily agreed. First, Brazilian newspapers...
Piqued Leak. Nonetheless, Chuyen was killed shortly thereafter. A Green Beret sergeant, Alvin Smith Jr., now one of the eight under detention, came to the CIA office in Nha Trang, explained that Chuyen had been executed, and asked for protection from "a bunch of wild men" in his outfit. The CIA agent alerted the Army's Criminal Investigation Division, which moved Smith to Saigon. General Creighton Abrams, the U.S. commander in Viet Nam, ordered a full-scale probe that led to the arrests. The Green Berets, according to the CIA, at first insisted that Chuyen had been sent...
...with prejudice" means to blackball an agent administratively so that he cannot work again as an informer. When the phrase "to terminate with extreme prejudice" is used, it often becomes the cloak-and-dagger code for extermination. In June, just such an execution order reached a U.S. Special Forces outfit in a port city of South Viet Nam. Seven Green Beret officers and one enlisted man helped to carry it out. The upshot was their arrest and detention pending investigation. Last week, as the Army maintained total silence and a host of rumors swirled through offices and bars in Saigon...
...that: 1) the founder of the trust never really relinquished his control or interest in it; and 2) he never redly intended it to be set up exclusively for charitable purposes. Though ABC knew that this was contrary to federal statutes governing tax-free foundations, the state charged, the outfit tried to conceal the fact by enjoining its clients to absolute secrecy. "The cleverness of the scheme," said California Deputy Attorney General H. Warren Siegel, "was to get you to join by saying 'Only we have this plan,' and then saying 'Don't tell anyone what...