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Law-enforcement agents are convinced that Gotti, a protege of Dellacroce's, helped plot the Castellano and Bilotti slayings to ensure his own rise to the top of the Gambino clan. No one, however, has been charged with those slayings. The Castellano hit may not come up at the racketeering...
One of the most pleasant avocations of pregnancy -- and one of the earliest assertions of parental power -- is deciding on the baby's name. The discussions sometimes go on until after the baby is born, when it becomes clear, for example, that the little girl should not be called Howard...
East, 55, had suffered paralysis of his legs since 1955, when polio cut him down while he was serving as a Marine lieutenant at Camp Lejeune. In recent years, hypothyroidism and urinary problems plagued him, and he sought psychiatric help for depression. Even though his health problems were widely known...
Some Western analysts were inclined to downplay the shift. As one Washington official joked, "The puppeteer now has a new puppet." Certainly Najibullah, a loyal protege of Karmal's, seems unlikely to lead his country in any radically new directions. However, having built the secret police into a disciplined, KGB...
By a 2-to-1 margin, Tarheel State Republicans chose Congressman James Broyhill, a mainstream conservative, over the N.C.C.'s man, former Ambassador to Rumania David Funderbunk, to run for the Senate seat vacated by another Helms protege, retiring Senator John East. Broyhill promptly announced that he would wage his...