Word: underworlders
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...more to them than banditry alone, as this range of art works dating from around the 16th century B.C. to the 2nd century A.D. proves. For Thrace was the land whence came Orpheus, mythical musician-king who enchanted the most ferocious beasts and defied Pluto, the king of the underworld; it was the country where the Horseman--a god combining aspects of Apollo, Dionysos and Asclepius--was at once the object of popular veneration and emulation. People and culture were sufficiently influenced by neighboring Greece, Persia, Western Europe and even Scythia to create a rich variety of artifacts...
...over the past two years, mystified lawmen knew them only as the ".22-cal. hitters" (TIME, April 18). But now the FBI believes it has a big break in the case -and indeed one of the killers. Last week federal prosecutors in Los Angeles were preparing indictments against an underworld moneylender named Joseph Ullo, charging him with two of the .22-cal. slayings...
...driver's license and educational and job histories, and foists the ex-criminal on a largely unsuspecting public, far away. The reason is that the offer of such protection is one of the few ways in which Government prosecutors have been able to get frightened members of the underworld to testify against the Mafia or other well-organized criminals...
...protection program was formally established after passage of the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970 to hasten the breakdown of omerta, the underworld code of silence. Relying on Title V, "Protected Facilities for Housing Government Witnesses," the Justice Department gave anti-Mob informers refuge in "safe houses" until their court testimony, then relocated them, perhaps after they had served prison time themselves...
...proviso that he have nothing to do with running the union until March 1980, when his sentence would have expired. But Hoffa persisted in trying to regain his old power in the union. On July 30, 1975, he vanished from outside Detroit and was presumably executed by the underworld...