Word: rico
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eight years since George Foreman lost a twelve-round decision to Jimmy Young in Puerto Rico and moments thereafter found the Lord. There were those who blamed the former heavyweight champion's immediate change of plans --he gave up boxing--on hallucinations brought on by heat prostration. But Foreman said that, to his mind, an oppressively hot night in San Juan was one thing, a call from God something else, and he knew the difference. Off came the gloves...
...Pennsylvania stores and hopes to sell nationwide by summer. Says Vice President Robert Allen: "American consumers can make a clear choice between buying American and buying something else." But Star-Kist can also claim to be selling American tuna, since some of its production is packed in Puerto Rico--a commonwealth that sends a nonvoting Representative to Congress--and in the U.S. territory of American Samoa...
...Lieut. General John Chain Jr., who has been cooperative with journalists, ordered his staff not to speak to Gelb again. The reason was a report by Gelb in the Feb. 13 edition of the Times that described U.S. contingency plans for placing nuclear weapons in foreign countries and Puerto Rico. Before it was published, Secretary of State George Shultz asked the paper to quash the story. Said Chain: "Disclosure of this type of information contributes little to the public's understanding and serves only to aid our potential adversary." The Times replied that everything in Gelb's story had already...
...sale as attorney's fees. When he became Governor again in 1984, the indictment claims, Edwards declared a moratorium on the issuance of all new certificates but exempted eight pending projects, five of which belonged to his associates. Edwards and the others are charged under the same racketeering law (RICO) that Federal prosecutors have recently been using to indict many Mafia families...
...RICO law had already been used to indict some Mafia clan leaders in New York (including Carmine Persico, 51, a Colombo family chieftain), Boston, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Cleveland and Rochester. Charges of skimming $2 million in cash from casinos in Las Vegas have also been leveled against high Mafia figures in Chicago, Kansas City and Milwaukee...