Word: trailed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...across the U.S. (TIME, Dec. 24, 1965). Digging just as hard as Karafin, Philadelphia Writers Gaeton Fonzi and Greg Walter began by investigating a racket involving fly-by-night companies that bought retail items on credit, unloaded them fast at discount prices, and then went into bankruptcy. The trail led to the doorstep of a 600-lb. operator named Sylvan Scolnick. Arrested, prosecuted and convicted, Scolnick started singing. Karafin, said Scolnick, was a good friend, so good, in fact, that he vouched for Scolnick's moral character and signed his application for a gun permit. Not only that...
...Trail of Checks. In 1962, Philadelphia's city controller stopped payments to the Broadway Maintenance Co., which serviced the city's lights and parking meters, charging negligence, destruction of records, padding of bills and payoffs to city officials. Reporter Karafin raked no muck this time. Instead, he came to Broadway's defense, accusing the controller of making wild charges, praising the company for its "good maintenance program." Eventually a judge ordered the controller to stop blocking payments to Broadway, and the firm received a new $800,000-a-year contract from the city. All the time Harry...
...Communist portion of Laos borders on both North and South Viet Nam, and is ruled by the local Red Pathet Lao. aided by an estimated 30,000 North Vietnamese combat troops who man the Ho Chi Minh trail's Lao tian sections. In a conversation with a reporter for the New York Times, Prince Souvanna admitted that the Lao tian armed forces (composed of Royalists and neutralists) are too small and weak to interfere with this massive Red force. Even so, Laos does not want U.S. or any other Western help in the matter, "because this would mean more...
...ground forces in constant danger and therefore under continuing stress. To do this, he and Technician William M. Coli joined a Green Beret detachment of two officers and ten enlisted men stationed at Due Co, southwest of Pleiku and only a few miles from the Ho Chi Minh trail. The Green Berets had good reason to be edgy. The study began during the dark of the moon. The monsoon was beginning. Ho's birthday was approaching. And U.S. intelligence kept warning Captain Wells E. Cunningham that an attack on his tiny force was imminent...
...trail on a suit brought by the University against a local real estate trust opened yesterday in the Middlesex Superior Court...