Word: vendettas
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...kill me." For its part, an embarrassed Congress Party-which last April expelled Lal for "undemocratic, autocratic and undignified attitudes" during the emergency-leveled undetailed charges of politically motivated torture against the government of Prime Minister Morarji Desai. Throughout the probes, the government has denied allegations of political vendetta...
...Coover clearly has more on his mind than a malodorous vendetta. Long stretches of his novel read like a fretful imitation of James Joyce's Ulysses. The author lays out thousands of facts about the early 1950s, in general, and June 17-19, 1953, in particular-from Justice William O. Douglas' last-minute order of a stay of execution to the electrocution itself. He quotes extensively (and with considerable repetition) from the Rosenbergs' trial transcripts and their prison letters, President Eisenhower's speeches, contemporary issues of TIME (which becomes a character mockingly called the "National Poet...
Connally is still a marginal Watergate figure, especially in the minds of many Democrats. But his acquital on the milk fund charges last year may have actually raised him in esteem for Republicans who saw much of Watergate as a Democrat-inspired vendetta and his prosecution--based on less-than-solid evidence--as one more manifestation of this vendetta. At the least, the acquital gave Connally a nominal clearance for a return to electoral politics...
...carrying out his vendetta against Martin Luther King Jr., FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover tried to get newsmen to listen to tapes of King's bedroom conversations in hotels. Only fragments ever saw print, but their existence has lingered in the air as a gossipy tidbit. Now, a federal judge has ordered the tapes held under seal for 50 years, not to be disclosed unless under court order. Presumably this is meant to spare King's widow, Coretta, any further embarrassment. A Department of Justice investigation concluded that the tapes were "very probably" illegally obtained; they are thus...
...after months of investigation, police have arrested Quartuccio and charged him with waging a vendetta against the gang that kidnaped his wife. It first appeared that the kidnapers had hastily released Graziella when they realized they were not tangling with just any old Siciliano. As it turned out, however, Graziella had been forcibly rescued by some of her husband's friends. Apparently the kidnapers were younger Mafiosi, who in recent years have grown markedly disrespectful of their elders' feelings. Even the favored nephew of Giuseppe Garda ("Don Peppino"), the boss of Monreale and an associate of Quartuccio...