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...reserved for Luftwaffe Boss Hermann Goring. Demanding that "the Führer [turn] Goring into a man again," Goebbels exclaims: "Bemedaled idiots and vain perfumed coxcombs have no place in our war leadership." Thanks to Goring's uninterrupted record of incompetence, argues Goebbels, the Luftwaffe has failed to wield the air superiority essential for victory...
...part, the police have been summoning gang leaders to appear at the police station for tongue-lashings in an effort to shame them into giving up crime. "We are trying to change the waters the gangsters swim in," said a police officer. Perhaps the most devastating weapon the communities wield against the yakuza is social ostracism. Parents tell their children not to play with those of the gangsters; shop owners and wives snub the families of the yakuza...
...Currier House Committee is trying to form an undergraduate government, and will hold a constitutional convention at some as-yet-unspecified date. That government, Currier House spokesmen said, would wield more power than the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life, which merely advises the administration...
...union chiefs in the payoff-Fitzsimmons and Anthony (Tony) Provenzano, Teamster boss in New Jersey until he was convicted for labor racketeering in 1963. After Provenzano was released from prison in 1970, he too was barred from union activities, but for five years, and he nonetheless continued to wield great power among Teamsters. He is regarded by the FBI as a prime suspect in Hoffa's disappearance...
Safeguarding Investments. As the latest OPEC episode demonstrates, the Saudis can be expected to wield their petropower prudently. Some of the other Arab oil producers want to use oil as a means of bringing the West to its knees and destroying Israel in the process. But the Saudis want to keep their customers healthy so that they can sell them plenty of oil. Also, as strict Muslims and fervent antiCommunists, they fear that an economic crisis in the West could so weaken Saudi Arabia's supporters that their own country would be vulnerable to Communist designs. Since the Saudis...