Word: bosses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some of the mobsters involved in the Donovan investigation are also named in a 1980 FBI report on the "Provenzano crime group." The 60-page document was used by the FBI to place a court-sanctioned wiretap on telephones available to Anthony ("Tony Pro") Provenzano, a New Jersey Teamster boss and Mafia captain, in California's Lompoc federal prison...
...calling for an immediate cease-fire in the Falkland Islands from veto to abstention. At a Friday morning photo session, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher stood stony-faced beside a smiling Reagan, who could not answer reporters' questions as to what had happened. Said one White House aide: "The boss wasn't in on this one. Maybe he should have been. Maybe that was the trouble." Then on Sunday came word of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, which the seven leaders condemned in a joint statement that warned of possible "disastrous consequences" for the Middle East (see WORLD...
...longtime personal secretary. Her contortions at federal court hearings on White House tapes, as she tried to demonstrate how she could have mistakenly erased 18½ minutes by simultaneously pressing recorder button and foot pedal while answering telephone, led to widespread suspicion that she was covering up for her boss. Helped Nixon at San Clemente on his post-Watergate books, then retired in 1976 on Government pension of at least $27,000 a year. Lives in Watergate apartments...
...this unholy trinity, Breslin brings adventure, excitement and a commuter version of West Side Story. His three principal characters are Teenager, a Caribbean-born drug dealer; Maximo, a young Harvard-educated lawyer with a desire to serve his Latin community; and Nicki, daughter of a gang boss, who lives in New Jersey with her parents while her hus band serves time in prison...
...sure things are running smoothly under other's direction. "He does rely a great deal on his staff to manage their areas of responsibility," says special assistant Nancy Randolph. But she says Bok would not hesitate to intervene if a policy goes awry. In general however Randolph says her boss's philosophy is that "decisions should be made by people most involved and not be heavy handed decisions coming down from...