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Zaccaro's troubles are certainly not all his doing. He is an Italian American who owns real estate in New York's Little Italy; questions about any possible underworld ties are constantly asked, as if such a connection were inevitable. Even the most tenuous bits of information made huge, unfair headlines: a pornography distributor is a tenant in one Zaccaro building; a reputed mobster rents an apartment in a building Zaccaro inherited from his father 13 years ago and immediately sold; an imprisoned swindler once owned a building that Zaccaro managed. TIME learned that U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani asked Zaccaro...
...people had been killed and more than 200 wounded, most of them civilians. That brought the total number of deaths in the Tripoli fighting since January to 400. The Lebanese government of Prime Minister Rashid Karami, which has been unable to extend its authority to Tripoli, also saw its tenuous grip around the city of Beirut loosen somewhat. Ten people were wounded when fighting erupted once more between rival Christian and Druze militias in the hills overlooking the capital...
...Democrats' tenuous Southern hopes rest on the black vote. A University of Alabama poll found that Reagan is leading in the state just 46% to 40%. If the party is able to generate huge black turnouts in Alabama (where 23% of the electorate is black), South Carolina (28% black), Georgia (22%), Mississippi (26%) and Louisiana (25%), and capture at least a third of the white vote in each state...
Hispanic congressmen led opposition to the Simpson-Mazzoli bill and nearly managed to defeat the four-year-old legislation. The measure passed by only a tenuous five-vote margin--one which could have been closed or broadened by the eight representatives who did not vote. In the Senate, which includes not a single Hispanic, the bill passed by a wider margin...
...pull them. Says Wisconsin Democratic Party Chairman Matthew Flynn: "Fritz is decent, safe and steady. People trust him to do the predictable thing. He won't tamper with Social Security or go to war." Mondale says he is eager to show his steadiness, and expose Reagan's tenuous grasp of the issues, in "several" TV debates...