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Eugene Bennett, 65, one of the city's few black Teamster leaders, gained control of the local last autumn after a power struggle with Salerno's distant cousin Frank and son Robert, a retired New York City cop. Bennett has investigated and dismantled the union's skimming arrangement, which operated through most of the 1980s. While employers were obligated to make payments on behalf of employees to the local's health and pension plans, an estimated 1,600 parking-lot attendants were kept out of the union and its funds, Bennett says. The workers, most of them illegal aliens from...
...immediate task of providing stable leadership, which the department has lacked since late last year when a heart attack forced former Chief Anthony G. Paolillo to relinquish his duties to an interim head. The shuffle of chiefs continued into the winter and spring when the role of temporary top cop changed hands a few times, as the highest ranking officers reached retirement age soon after becoming chief...
Long Island's News 12, for example, starts each morning with a news radio- style mix of news, weather and the inevitable traffic reports, live from key points on the Long Island Expressway. The channel has extensively covered everything from unsolved cop killings to controversial local issues like garbage dumping. Boasts executive producer Drew Phillips: "Nobody can make a move without us knowing about...
...positions is up again to about 8,400. With that backing, Kessler hopes to strengthen the FDA in all areas. By picking on big food companies sensitive to publicity, he has made an astute start at establishing himself -- and re-establishing the FDA -- as the nation's top health cop...
Last week a black rookie policewoman shot and wounded a Hispanic construction worker, touching off the worst rioting Washington had seen since Martin Luther King Jr. was killed in 1968. Police say Daniel Enrique Gomez, 30, had been drinking in public and lunged at the cop with a knife. Bystanders said Gomez was handcuffed and unarmed. Enraged, Hispanics spent the next two nights burning cars, breaking windows and looting stores in a melee joined by some blacks and whites. Calm returned only after Mayor Sharon Pratt Dixon declared a curfew; by then, two people had been injured and 42 arrested...