Word: soldiers
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Gotti, who seemed to personify a vigorous new generation of mobster, may never have a chance to inherit his criminal kingdom. Prosecutor Diane Giacalone, 36, says tapes of conversations between Gotti and his lieutenants, recorded by a trusted Gambino "soldier" turned informant, will provide "direct evidence of John Gotti's role as manager of a gambling enterprise." If convicted, the new crime chief and six lieutenants could be imprisoned for up to 40 years...
...more than two decades the Mafia managed to keep its board of directors hidden from the outside world, until November 1957, when police staged a celebrated raid on a national mobsters' convention in Apalachin, N.Y. In 1963 former Mafia Soldier Joseph Valachi told a Senate investigating subcommittee all about La Cosa Nostra, the previously secret name under which the brotherhood had operated. After the Mafia had been romanticized in books and movies like The Godfather, some mobsters became brazen about their affairs. In 1983 former New York Boss Joseph Bonanno even published an autobiography about his Mafia years...
...guaranteed that the U.S. Senate would not ratify the SALT II treaty. In September 1983 Soviet air-defense units shot down a Korean passenger plane, prompting Secretary of State George Shultz to throttle back his effort to re- engage the U.S.S.R. in quiet diplomacy. In March 1985 a Soviet soldier in East Germany shot and killed Major Arthur Nicholson, a member of a U.S. military liaison unit, and hawks in the Administration clamored for retaliation...
...month period. The informant, a self-styled former hit man named Dominick Lofaro, was brazen enough to carry a concealed wire right into Gotti's lair, the Bergen Hunt and Fish Club in Ozone Park, N.Y. His cooperation with authorities marked the first time that a Mafia "soldier" had ever worked as an informant while on active duty. The intelligence coup, said one New York City police officer, was "like penetrating the Kremlin...
Joining the National Guard was once thought of as an excuse to get out of the house for the weekend and play soldier. These days, however, service in the Guard is no lark. When 38 medics from the Iowa National Guard returned to Iowa City last week, they were back from Honduras, not Fort Dodge. They had spent two weeks training in the bush and giving medical treatment to occupants of remote villages like Toro Muerto. The Air National Guard unit in Bangor, Me., has already been in Alaska, California and Italy this year and is revving...