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...Senate finally hit upon a solution to the problem of financing: ignore it. By an overwhelming vote of 97 to 2, the upper chamber approved a $1.4 billion drug measure that would boost penalties for pushing drugs and beef up federal narcotics enforcement on a broad front. Just before final adoption, a handful of Senators on the floor shouted through a resolution pledging to find the money later. Appropriations Committee Chairman Mark Hatfield, who was behind the maneuver, was not proud of it. "It's a gimmick," he admitted afterward. "All we're doing is Band-Aiding ourselves over...
...third key witness is the confessed hit man Vincenzo Sinagra, an underling who used to take home $250 a month in his grisly job, waiting around on street corners for his next assignment. Sinagra led the police on a tour of his clan's torture chamber. There he showed them bloodstained ropes, brickbats and a vat in which, he said, bodies were dumped into acid...
...next four years Diane Giacalone pieced together exactly what those men loitering in front of that red brick building did for a living. In doing so, she painstakingly constructed against John Gotti and nine others a case involving loan sharking, gambling, hijacking and murder. Today, in an unembellished chamber at federal court in Brooklyn, Gotti and Giacalone sit across from each other, about the same distance apart as the width of 101st Avenue...
...least as old as the French custom of hospitality is the tradition of terrorism. In 1894 anarchists killed French President Sadi Carnot. During that era bombs exploded regularly in Parisian theaters, cafes, police stations and courts. After two obscure terrorists bombed the Chamber of Deputies, the president of that body waited for the smoke to clear, then said, "Gentlemen, the meeting continues." In the 1870s the Communards executed 60 hostages, including the Archbishop of Paris, Georges Darboy, during a two-month insurrection that took at least 20,000 lives. A century later the famed Middle East terrorist Carlos, also known...
What does Captain Eo, a.k.a. Michael Jackson, do to relax after a hard day of defending the galaxy? Why, he just pops into his custom-made $125,000 hyperbaric chamber, of course. Jackson's spaced-out method of getting his beauty rest came to light in a photograph of the Gloved One looking like the star of a B-grade sci-fi flick. Jackson got interested in the idea after he was hospitalized for burns two years ago and learned that hyperbaric chambers could speed up the healing of damaged tissue by enabling a patient to breathe oxygen...