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Undergraduate Council President Carey W. Gabay '94 described the atmosphere as "teasing but friendly...
...other business, council President Carey W.Gabay '94 announced the results of last Thursday'sgroundbreaking summit with leaders of the PhillipsBrooks House Association...
...Roughshod" and "musclebound." That's how President Clinton last week described organized labor's lobbying tactics against lawmakers who support the free-trade agreement. Those ugly terms, which evoke old stereotypes of spaghetti-sucking Mob bosses and pistol-blazing hitmen, infuriated Ronald Carey, the leader of the 1.4 million-member International Brotherhood of Teamsters. He demanded that Clinton apologize for using "code words" that are "an insult to every working man and woman in America...
They may be insulting; they may also be true, at least as far as Carey himself is concerned. Outwardly, Carey is a zealous reformer who swept into office two years ago in the first democratic election in Teamster history and pledged to revitalize the country's most corrupt union. But the union's hard times have gotten harder; the Teamsters are trucking toward bankruptcy, membership is eroding, and Carey's alleged links to the Mob have observers wondering where his allegiance lies...
...TIME has obtained a two-year-old FBI debriefing report of Alfonso ("Little Al") D'Arco, the former acting boss of the Lucchese crime family, who has been hiding in the Witness Protection Program since 1991. According to the report (see opposite page), D'Arco revealed that Carey was tied to La Cosa Nostra through the late Joseph ("Joe Shrugs") Trerotola, a legendary Teamster kingmaker who resigned in 1991 at age 82 amid charges he allowed organized crime to flourish in the union...