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...York City's five brugads and 11 smaller Italian gangs in cities ranging from Denver to Kansas City to New Orleans. The bloodletting has decimated two major New York City families (Colombo and Bonanno) and enabled Gambino family boss John Gotti, a flamboyant newcomer, to rise up overnight as America's leading media mobstar...
...critics argued that overnight gasoline-price hikes were unfair since shipments of the higher-priced crude could not possibly reach U.S. shores in less than six weeks. Therefore, they reasoned, the oil companies were raising prices greedily on products already in hand. In a TIME/CNN poll conducted by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman, 87% of those surveyed considered the oil-price increases to be unfair, and 80% said there should be laws to limit how much oil companies can raise prices during a crisis...
When Alberto Fujimori was running for President, he promised he would not try to revive Peru's disastrous economy with shock tactics. Last week Fujimori's two-week-old government unveiled an austerity plan that prompted protests and food riots. Overnight the price of gasoline jumped from 10 cents per gal. to more than $2, and food prices rose 300%. In Lima at least three people were killed by police and army troops, who were enforcing a state of emergency invoked two days before the measures were made public. The plan calls for taxes to be raised, import duties...
Hoffman is also able to bring to life a complex supporting cast of characters in a few swift paragraphs. They travel from open hostility toward this stranger, to liking her despite her imperfections, to loving her because of them. The most complacent wife discovers that love can disappear, not overnight but in the course of a hundred tuna casseroles served every Friday. No one is immune from dissatisfaction and its companion, desire, which can be tamped down but comes back unannounced. "You might find it when you slipped your hand into a rubber glove to scour the kitchen sink...
Bakr, a former policeman, founded the militant Jamaat al-Muslimeen, or Group of Muslims, six years ago to preach a violent but moralistic antidrug message. He and his band are said to receive money from Libya. As gunfire and explosions rocked the capital overnight, Trinidad's 5,000-member police force moved into the streets to restore order. Government officials declared that they were in control, but at week's end Bakr continued to hold his captives...