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...much of the report covers familiar ground--rehashing Justice Department evidence that organized crime runs unions for longshoremen, hotel and restaurant workers, teamsters and laborers--it goes on to show sleaze everywhere. "Throughout the economy," the commission states, "organized crime distorts costs through theft, extortion, bribery, price fixing and restraint of trade." Consumers often pay "what amounts to a surcharge" to the Mafia in crime-controlled industries, the report states. New York City's construction business is dominated by the Mob; of 94 building projects surveyed, 87% bought overpriced concrete from just two Mob-related companies, even though the area...
...full o' deans chuckling in their Brooks Brothers lapels. For their own convenience, they've imposed a deviant scheduling system known nowhere else (outside of New Jersey). They've made us take exams after vacation. Christmas holidays, which for most college students are times of release and partying without restraint, become two-week guilt trips. Of course, we have a four-day intersession to do all the partying we need...
...Marcos, who immediately asked whether Reagan wanted him to step down. Laxalt said the President was not in a position to make that kind of demand. Then Marcos put the question directly to Laxalt: What should he do? Replied the Senator: "Mr. President, I'm not bound by diplomatic restraint. I'm talking only for myself. I think you should cut and cut cleanly. The time has come." There was a long pause that to Laxalt seemed interminable. Finally he asked, "Mr. President, are you still there?" Marcos replied, in a subdued voice, "Yes, I'm still here...
...Cardinal first employed a policy known as "critical collaboration" with the Marcos regime. He urged the government to become more democratic, and simultaneously called for restraint among the opposition. In the spirit of reconciliation, Sin was willing to work with Marcos as a mediator but never as an accomplice. During the past six years, though, Sin has drifted further and further away from the President. Gradually other members of the traditionally conservative hierarchy followed his lead. When Marcos called for early presidential elections last year, the church was ready. The groundwork for selecting opposition candidates and drafting a platform...
Until last year the Kremlin usually responded with restraint to Western & expulsions of Soviet diplomats caught spying. In 1983, when France tossed out 47 Soviet diplomats on charges of spying, Moscow chose not to retaliate at all. That changed when the Soviet Union went head to head last September with Britain in a diplomatic row that ended with each country's expelling 31 of the other's representatives...