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There has been some pushing and shoving among the rival Mafiosi but no shooting or open warfare so far. Some law-enforcement officials expect the top Mafia dons in the U.S. to designate the resort an open city, meaning that any member of the criminal brotherhood or its underworld allies can seek a piece of the action, as is the case in Las Vegas. The Mafia is already tolerating a group of Cuban hoodlums, the Malagamba gang from northern New Jersey, which has gained a foothold in Atlantic City's illicit market for cocaine, marijuana and hookers...
...result of his own experience as a pre-World War I Austrian immigrant to Bayonne, N.J., where at the age of ten he knocked on doors to help his father find work. He once proposed a national jobs program that would cast the Government as the employer of last resort. If he gave first priority to fighting inflation, it was because of his heartfelt belief that inflation causes unemployment...
...critics, rarely play the chic little theaters where the cinéastes gather to read subtitles and subtleties, or get nominated for prizes. If anyone talks about Burt and Clint at all in the better intellectual circles, it is to denounce their macho manners and express fear that their habitual resort to violence poses a continuing threat to the morals of the children and, very possibly, to Liberal Democracy and All It Holds Dear...
...slopes. "She tried to kiss a tree once, and she got up laughing." Amy, who is staying with Carter family friends in Colorado, will get a course in skiing fundamentals during her six-day visit, says Wells, and a chance to test her new skills on the resort's beginners' slope, Peanuts...
...last week's price-setting meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries in Venezuela, Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani picked up his Arab worry beads to take them along. He could have left them at home. During the two-day session at the beach resort of Caraballeda outside Caracas, Yamani gave his fellow oil ministers a tough display of Saudi Arabian power in oil politics. Arguing that the international economy is too weak and world oil supplies too high to support an increase over the current $12.70 per bbl. price, Yamani pushed OPEC in effect to accept...