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...muscle of organized crime has been most formidable in New York City. Prosecutors have been attacking it with increasing success, but expect to score their biggest win in the so-called Commission case (dubbed Star Chamber by federal investigators). Chertoff and two other young prosecutors handling their first big trial will have to prove that a national Commission made up of the bosses and some underbosses of the major families has been dividing turf and settling disputes among the crime clans ever since New York's ruthless "Lucky" Luciano organized the Commission in 1931. Luciano acted to end the gang...
Playing for time to find supporters, the White House delayed announcement of the veto until after the House quit work for the week, thus preventing a quick override vote in the Democratic-controlled chamber...
...method, which like radiology was developed around the turn of the century, is simple: food passes through a lead-shielded concrete chamber where radioactive cobalt 60 or cesium 137 bombards it with gamma rays, killing insects and bacteria and sometimes slowing ripening. The food does not become radioactive. "There's nothing in common at all between a nuclear reactor like Chernobyl and an irradiator," says Karl Abraham, a spokesman for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). "It's like comparing bananas to tigers." Treated food "can be immediately eaten," says George Giddings, director of food irradiation at Isomedix...
While a student group played chamber music to the guests inside, about 50 people stood on the sidewalks outside of Memorial Hall in hopes of catching a glimpse of the Prince...
...conference frequently proceeded in the manner of a labor negotiation. The delegates from each chamber would caucus separately and come back with a new offer to be presented to the other side. The House gave in early to the Senate's two tax rates. That left the biggest question: How large should the increase in business taxes be? After a supposedly climactic session last Tuesday turned into a shouting match, the weary conferees agreed to let Packwood and Rostenkowski try to break the impasse. The two met on and off--at times with a few aides, at times alone--well...