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...unrest within the Mafia?and the 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...
...thing, many Western European nations have hinted that an election without Communist participation would be regarded as a farce; Madrid desperately wants closer economic and political ties with the European Community. For another thing, if the Communists were not legalized they would have attempted mass demonstrations and fomented labor unrest during the campaign. Widespread pre-election chaos could have discredited Suarez's reform program and encouraged the ultrarightists, who oppose Juan Carlos' determination to guide his country toward parliamentary democracy...
...opens his report with the statement that the University has "entered a period of precarious stability" after 25 years of growth and change, then student unrest, and at last financial stringency. If this stability--based as it seems to be on a general consensus that what's good for Harvard is good for the nation--is precarious, then it's hard to help asking what kind of stability is unshakeable...
...rich, well-fed industrial North of the globe needs to build a new relationship with the overpopulated, under-developed South if an explosion is to be avoided. In the specific case of Mexico, President Lopez Portillo warned that failure to solve its problems will end in increased terrorism, peasant unrest, and nationalist moves against foreign interests. Off-the-record, Lopez Portillo is reported to have stated that these problems could render him the last of Mexico's constitutional presidents. What would happen then is not a Communist takeover, which the American Congress fears, but a Fascist dictatorship. In his address...
...royal dynasty, stemming from the machinations of a priestly cult bent on weakening the Pharaoh and aggrandizing a mysterious golden idol. But lest his fans grow confused at this radical turn of events, he has obligingly included the familiar signposts that dot his other works: the danger of growing unrest among the unwashed masses, treachery and lunacy afoot in the councils of government, the gruesome and untimely deaths of several key characters, and a goodly share of promiscuity and homosexuality in high places. The result is another embarassingly improbable but predictable romp through Drury's private fantasy-land, a fanciful...