Word: tolles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...effect this has on all levels of organized crime?reaches far beyond the sidewalks and back alleys of New York. In Chicago, young toughs who are fighting over lucrative jobs in the organization have produced the worst intramural bloodbath since Al Capone seized control in the 1920s. The toll since December 1973: 21 dead. Observes Peter Vaira, chief of the Justice Department's anti-Mafia strike force in the city: "The younger faction wants more power and a bigger piece of the action. There will be more killings." At the same time, mobsters from New York and Chicago are invading...
...Although police backed away from many confrontations, troops in Karachi fired on an impromptu demonstration, which had been organized during a curfew break to allow residents to shop and attend Muslim services. At least 20 people were killed and 200 wounded. Last week's violence raised the death toll to about 250 since the troubles began nearly two months ago. At least 4,000 people have been injured and 35,000 arrested...
...life. But Shimon Peres, as usual, was relaxed and well-groomed as he sipped Turkish coffee in his Defense Ministry office while discussing Israel's latest political crisis with TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief Donald Neff and Correspondent David Halevy. The only clue that the pressure had taken its toll: Peres, 53, whose memory is notably accurate, from time to time peeked at a small pocket diary to check on his recollections of what he called "in political terms, a complete revolution...
...real key thing to going to Florida, though, is being able to drive back and watch some lady go one-for-three at a Connecticut toll booth. She was obviously in a penalty situation...
...dream." So said a young Rumanian last week, as he watched bulldozers and mechanical shovels snarl and roar through the debris in downtown Bucharest caused by the most devastating earthquake in the country's history (TIME, March 14). Rumanian President Nicolae Ceauşescu announced that the death toll for the country had reached 1,387; he estimated the number of wounded at 10,500, including 2,500 who were still hospitalized. The 20-second quake, which registered 7.2 on the Richter scale and was followed by 20 minutes of reverberations, had wiped out about 20,000 houses...