Word: chieftain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...members of the Syndicate endorsed Indira's efforts to speed India's swing to the left, but in practice they dragged their sandals. Supported by Desai, her chief opponents were Bombay Leader S. K. Patil, Congress Party President S. Nijalingappa, former President Kumaraswami Kamaraj and West Bengal Chieftain Atuyla Ghosh. After first challenging Indira in closed meetings, her opponents tried to sidestep such proposals as nationalizing Indian banks by paying them mere lip service in the vague closing resolution. But their real success came in defeating Indira on the party's choice of a candidate...
...tapes also show Mafia Chieftain Joseph Zicarelli bragging of interceding with "my friend the Congressman," Cornelius Gallagher. Gallagher denied involvement with Zicarelli and said that the mobster was merely "name dropping." Last year Gallagher was accused by LIFE Magazine of interceding with police on Zicarelli's behalf. The Democratic Congressman denied that charge and was re-elected last fall...
Died. Vito Genovese, 71, vice lord and Mafia chieftain who reputedly directed a multibillion-dollar underworld empire from federal prisons for the past nine years; of heart disease; in Springfield, Mo., Penitentiary. Arriving in the U.S. from Italy in 1913, Genovese proved himself a tough and shifty "soldier" and then "capo" (officer) in the Mafia ranks. Over the years he was indicted 13 times, including a conspiracy-to-murder rap he beat when the state's key witness was found poisoned. In 1957, Genovese assumed the Cosa Nostra throne after the barbershop slaying of rival Albert Anastasia (no indictment...
That was round one. After a wait of an hour ("their train's been held up," Ivers pleaded) the second group of the evening arrived--Gilbert Moses' Chaka (the name of a great Zulu warrior-chieftain...
...July 20, somebody fired a shotgun at the Tucson home of Anthony Tisci, a son-in-law of Sam ("Momo") Giancana, commander of the 300-man Cosa Nostra army in Chicago. Then dynamite destroyed a shed at the Grace Ranch, the property of Pete Licavoli, aging chieftain of Detroit's Mafia. On the night of July 22, a bomb thrown onto Joe Bananas' patio blew out part of a wall. All the buildings that have been attacked belong to Bonanno henchmen and acquaintances...