Word: ringe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Commission trial is not expected to produce a turncoat as high ranking as Cleveland Underboss Angelo Lonardo, the top U.S. mobster to sing so far. He learned how to be a turncoat the hard way. Charged with leading a drug ring, Lonardo was convicted after a lesser hood, Carmen Zagaria, testified about the inner workings of the Cleveland Mob. Zagaria described how the bodies of hit victims were chopped up and tossed into Lake Erie. Lonardo, who wanted to avoid a life sentence, then helped prosecutors break the Las Vegas skimming case...
...memorandum to San Francisco federal district court, "the Government would undoubtedly be seeking the death penalty in this case." Since federal law does not provide capital punishment for peacetime espionage, Judge John Vukasin chose the closest thing: he sentenced Jerry Whitworth, a member of the Walker family espionage ring, to 365 years in prison. Whitworth will not be eligible for parole for 60 years, when he would be 107. "Jerry Whitworth," said Vukasin, "is a zero at the bone," a man who had betrayed his country for money because "he believes in nothing." Whitworth said only, "I'm very, very...
Whitworth's sentence (he was fined $410,000) apparently will be the harshest meted out to any member of the spy ring. John Walker's brother Arthur, a former Navy lieutenant commander, has been sentenced to three life terms (parole eligibility: ten years). John and his son Michael are to be sentenced soon. Under terms of a plea bargain that they struck in return for providing information, John is due to get life (parole eligibility: ten years), and Michael 25 years (parole eligibility: eight years and four months). The Government justified the severity of Whitworth's punishment by contending that...
...founder's battle cry did not always ring well in the 1960s and '70s. Popes John XXIII and Paul VI were building bridges toward Marxists and atheists, a policy that still attracts some of Italy's bishops. Many of them -- including Milan's influential Jesuit Archbishop Carlo Maria Cardinal Martini -- are dismayed by C.L.'s independent spirit and its insistence that a true Christian can have only one political and social outlook, a fault they label "integralism." Retorts C.L. Member Ronza: "We don't want to impose our Christian ideals on anyone, but we want an equal hearing...
...July three star players of the University of Virginia football team -- including Barry Word, former tailback and 1985 Atlantic Coast Conference Player of the Year -- were charged by federal prosecutors with conspiring to distribute cocaine. They join 21 other individuals who have been indicted as part of a drug ring dealing coke in Virginia, Maryland, Tennessee and Florida. The gridiron trio accounted for more than 56% of their team's points last season. Today they each face a maximum sentence of a $250,000 fine and 16 years in prison...