Word: trib
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...between Donovan and Douglas LaChance, a convicted labor racketeer. It took place in a bar at New York City's Hotel Algonquin on the evening of Jan. 10.1978. LaChance was then head of a newspaper drivers' union that had interfered with the delivery of the New York Trib, a troubled morning tabloid that failed after publishing for a mere three months. Donovan's company had invested $370,000 in the newspaper, according to Leonard Saffir, its founder and publisher. William Casey, now director of the Central Intelligence Agency, was briefly on the Trib's board. Donovan...
LaChance's union had held up delivery of 135,000 copies of the Trib and threatened to shut it down with a full-scale strike. A court ordered the deliverers back to work, but according to Saffir it was the meeting between Donovan and LaChance at the Algonquin and the subsequent phone calls the two men exchanged that caused the drivers to resume deliveries. LaChance is now serving a twelve-year prison term for extorting $300,000 from various employers...
Paris truly is a meeting place of cultures: Men from all over the world have followed me around the city. Today the Trib sends me to the suburb of Nanterre, not to cover a story, but to get a French social security number so that I can be paid. I have the equivalent of $10 left to my name. On the way back, a man from Zambia asks me if he can speak English with me. I cannot very well say no because he has followed me from the social security office to the metro and has inadvertently paid...
...looks at my left hand. "Why no ring?" He is glaring. We are at my metro stop: I run quickly. People at the Trib tell me I should have immediately yelled at the strange man. "Vas te faire foutre!" This apparently means "Go fuck yourself...
Rita and Robin, the two women who type with me at the Trib, take me out for coffee and tell me that Norma, my supervisor, does not like me because I am interested in doing more than typing...