Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...classic mom-and-pop eatery. The friendly Sicilian owner, Pietro ("Pete") Alfano, often tied on an apron and made the pizza himself. Townsfolk were understandably shocked last week when federal authorities arrested Pete, calling him a "main contact point in the United States" for an international drug-trafficking ring run by one of New York City's major Mafia families...
...Director William Webster and Attorney General William French Smith held a news conference in New York City last week to announce that Alfano and 30 others, including many key organized-crime figures, had been charged with conspiring to violate federal drug laws. The drug ring is believed to have smuggled 1,650 Ibs. of heroin (street value: $1.65 billion) into the U.S. since...
...alleged masterminds of the drug ring lived in different countries. Gaetano Badalamenti, arrested in Madrid last week, was the Sicilian connection. Badalamenti was described as one of the heads of the worldwide Mafia. His "big cheese" in the U.S. was Salvatore Catalano, purportedly a leader of the Bonanno crime family...
Jackson is no longer a positive force in the nomination race. He argues that liberal whites do not support him for racial reasons, but his charges ring of hypocrisy and petty opportunism. He calls for a "Rainbow Coalition," while sharing campaign platforms with a man who threatened death to a Black "Uncle Tom" reporter...
...commendable for its candor. Winans may not have profited from the leaks, but a free-spending colleague, David J. Carpenter, who worked at the Journal for 18 months, might have. The Journal report was remarkably blunt: "The two are lovers . . . They live together, and Mr. Winans wears a gold ring given to him by Mr. Carpenter...