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...Lucchese family (members: 125) suffered three leadership changes this year alone. One boss was jailed, while another, Alphonse D'Arco, fearing an internal assassination, has been singing to the feds. An underboss is on the lam, and a 450-lb. caporegime who survived 12 bullet wounds in a rubout attempt last summer has become a government witness. Like the Colombos, the family is now split into two factions. Before Gravano's defection last week, the Gambinos were rumored to be considering a takeover of the floundering Luccheses, whose talents include garbage hauling and stolen-car rings...
When the charred body of Foreign Minister Robert Ouko was found with a bullet in the head 21 months ago, a police report suggested he had committed suicide. Last week a judicial commission of inquiry finally learned the results of an independent investigation, headed by Scotland Yard detective John Troon, that had been suppressed by the government of President Daniel arap Moi. Troon concluded that Ouko had been murdered to stop his revelations of high-level corruption in the Moi administration...
Each era has its high points, often about unsuspected topics. "The Black Angel's Death Song" revolves on the paradoxes of the will encountering language, the language of choice, and violence. "Andy's Chest," inspired by the Richard Avedon photo of Warhol's bullet-scarred body, concludes with the thickest description of the Warholian psyche...
Baird Professor of Science Edward O. Wilson, Harvard's resident ant-man, gave his stamp of approval to the peanut/acid concoction. Praising its non-toxic effect, Wilson called the Dunster House project, "the magic bullet, fitting the particular circumstances in addition to the species...
Quite a few locals took pleasure in the rancorous rumors. For years Disney had been No. 1, but with a bullet of industry-wide resentments aimed at its heart. The studio's bosses were crass, they were meddlers, they were way too successful for way too long: Michael Milkens as movie moguls. Anticipating that Billy B. might be a Bonfire-size bomb, Hollywood went dancing at its favorite spot: on the coffin of a hated rival...