Word: castellano
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...Central Intelligence Agency is finally returning to its intended strength and purpose [COVER STORY, Feb. 3]. It is reassuring to see that the CIA, after years of being emasculated, is back to being the world's greatest. MICHAEL J. CASTELLANO Guilford, Conn...
...gradually worked his way up through the ranks doing contract killings and hijacking trucks before blasting his way onto the big stage in the early 1980s. After ordering a very public hit on boss Paul Castellano in Midtown Manhattan on Dec. 16, 1985, Gotti assumed control of the Gambino family. He reigned as boss from 1986-1992, and during those years he became the city’s most notorious media-darling, mainly because federal prosecutors just couldn’t seem to convict him. As he won acquittal after acquittal—either by intimidating key witnesses...
...Warhol portrait of him on its cover in 1986, and Gotti framed it in his office. On one surveillance tape, he and his associates can be heard critiquing a TV re-enactment of the Mob hit that brought him to power. Even that hit was cinematic: his predecessor, Paul Castellano, was gunned down in front of Sparks steak house in crowded midtown Manhattan at Christmastime. All Martin Scorsese would have added were credits and a Shirelles song...
...prison in Springfield, Missouri. Gotti, who had a proclivity for money and women, was a smooth-talking, scrupulously clad gangster christened the "Dapper Don" for his fashion sense. He took over the Gambino crime syndicate in 1985 after masterminding a Hollywood-style slaying of its boss, Paul Castellano, with the help of his head honcho, "Sammy the Bull" Gravano. Gravano turned state witness and testified against his boss; Gotti got a life term in prison on multiple racketeering and murder charges. DIED. TAHSEEN BASHEER, 77, spokesman for Egyptian Presidents Gamal Abdel Nasser and Anwar Sadat; in London. A staunch believer...
Though cooking lets families spend time together, the active involvement of kids in the kitchen may also have grown out of necessity. With many families having two parents in the work force, children are taking on more of the responsibility for preparing meals and after-school snacks. Dan Castellano, 16, of Corvallis, Ore., makes Thai food with his dad, but his motivation goes beyond spending time with his father. "I realized," he admits, "that my mom didn't have to do all the cooking...