Word: underworlds
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...adhere publicly to its 1968 total embargo on weapons sales to the belligerent nations of the region. The theory goes that arms and ammunition are turned over to established smugglers and shipped in compartments concealed in specially fitted vehicles. The underworld then takes advantage of the arrangement: on the return trip, the same compartments are filled with drugs...
...bank accounts for illegal uses. While there is no financial "octopus" for drug money in Switzerland, there are ways in which capital flows into narcotics. Money invested in clandestine companies registered in the name of a "manufacturer's representative" or "legal representative" often finds its way into the drug underworld...
...police spokesman included Carlo Gambino, "boss of all bosses" of organized crime in the New York area, in the list of underworld figures to be questioned in the slaying of Eboli, found early Sunday morning in Brooklyn's Crown Heights district...
...articles by veteran Investigative Reporter David Burnham in the Times. Going beyond the Knapp group, Seymour used City Detective Robert Leuci as an undercover man, gathering evidence of payoffs and other malfeasance. Eventually the prosecutor assembled a force of 40 local and federal agents who made liberal use of underworld informants. He anticipated a huge haul, but Leuci got restive. He was in danger much of the time, his family under constant guard, and Seymour felt he needed encouragement...
...French Connection. Leave your nerve endings at home, along with your emotions, if you plan to see this one. Brutally manipulative and infuriatingly unenlightening about the cops, junkies and underworld kingpins it deals with. SAVOY II THEATER...