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Mullen also failed to tell the committee about a series of wiretaps on the phones of William Masselli, a Genovese family "soldier." Those wiretaps, according to the Silverman report, show that Masselli boasted of how "I get along good with all the bosses" of the Schiavone Co.; he was overheard naming the five top officers, including Donovan...
...have been partly tactical (to allow time to move in additional men and materiel), partly wishful thinking (the hope that Argentina would avert a bloodbath by capitulating), partly humanitarian (to forestall casualties among the civilian residents of Port Stanley). The pause may have served its purpose. British intelligence reportedly overheard an unscrambled conversation last week between Brigadier General Mario Benjamin Menendez, commander of the Argentine troops on the islands, and his superiors on the mainland. Menendez is said to have described the low morale of his troops, adding, "If things go on like this, our situation could crumble rapidly...
...brought off without cool, efficient musical direction. Nicholas V. Palmer '79, the Lowell House music tutor, keeps the orchestra and singers together, with directorial assistance from Stuart Malina '84 and Anne Watson. Malina was on hand Friday night to keep Palmer cool under the pressure before performance. I overheard this pre-show exchange...
...detail is a way good writers have of avoiding both melodrama and sentimentality, which blanched the hard truth of Kramer vs. Kramer. As he proved in Melvin and Howard, Bo Goldman is a very good writer, a man whose world appears to be filled with mild eccentrics and funny overheard remarks that he gets down just right in his mental notebook. His specificity seems to have disciplined Alan Parker, who in the past has liked to stress the ugly metaphorical overtones in his material (in Midnight Express he kept insisting that the whole world is a Turkish prison, when really...
...determine whether the charges were true or false. Neither the FBI nor the Justice Department informed the committee that federal agents had been bugging the offices and tapping the telephones of one such mobster, William Masselli, for seven months before Donovan's confirmation. What the official eavesdroppers overheard would surely have been of interest to the Senators...