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...Bonanno may indeed be the proudest of America's Mafiosi: Sicilian-born, son of a don, bootlegger at 21, gunrunner for Al Capone at 24, a New York don himself at 26 and a ruthless aspirant to the title of capo di tutti capi, boss of all bosses. So at age 74, supposedly sunning out his years in Tucson, "Joe Bananas" began writing the story of his life. His tentative title: "The Prince of the Honored Mafia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Not So Quietly Flows the Don | 6/11/1979 | See Source »

Nothing so infuriates Italy's terrorists as the spectacle of the democratic process at work. Just as the campaign for the country's early June parliamentary elections was beginning, the ruthless Red Brigades staged their most spectacular urban guerrilla attack since their abduction and murder of former Premier Aldo Moro last spring. Striking in the heart of Rome, a band of as many as 20 brigatisti swarmed into the district headquarters of the ruling Christian Democratic Party not far from such tourist attractions as Piazza Navona and Via Condotti...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Roman Outrage | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

...last week in Tanzania to form a provisional government. Conspicuously absent was former President Milton Obote, who had been overthrown by Big Daddy in 1971. Never a particularly popular leader, Obote had alienated many of his countrymen with his authoritarian manner and socialist rhetoric, and particularly with his ruthless efforts to crush Uganda's ancient tribal kingdoms in the interests of national unity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UGANDA: Big Daddy's Last Stand? | 4/9/1979 | See Source »

...Crimson opinion page that year featured an article headlined "World Food Crisis: Political Maneuvers Keep Food From Starving Millions." Conferences were held. Books were written about the "millions" from underdeveloped countries scrambling to board the only "lifeboat"--America and Europe--and we were warned we would have to be ruthless...

Author: By Priscilla Hart, | Title: The Press and Hunger: Why Is It Ignored? | 4/4/1979 | See Source »

Originally Edelin was charged only with "ruthless and reckless conduct" towards the five-month old fetus when it was alive outside its mother's body...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Edelin Named to B.U. Med School Post | 3/20/1979 | See Source »

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