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...also disclosed weaknesses that led to the Pope's downfall. Castellano installed a flirty Colombian maid as his mistress -- so flagrantly that his wife left him -- thereby violating the unwritten Mafia law that girlfriends stay discreetly out of sight. He also named his murderous, vile- tempered driver, Tommy Bilotti, as his underboss and heir, a decision that infuriated members of the family. Within the Mob, word got out that Big Paul had lost touch. And so it was that Castellano and Bilotti were shot outside a fancy Manhattan steak house in December 1985. The gunsels were never caught...
...just why Chun Se Yong changed his mind about suicide is a mystery to those who knew him. Friends and colleagues describe him as an intense, articulate young man, well-versed in the rhetoric of his cause. Raised by his grandmother after his taxi-driver father and his mother divorced several years ago, Chun was sensitive to the social injustices he saw around...
Traces of that attitude linger. During the parliamentary debate, Deputy Leonid Sukhov, a taxi driver from the Ukraine, warned that free movement of citizens in and out would open the Soviet borders to AIDS. Officers of the KGB border guards mounted an exhibit of guns and drugs seized by customs agents as a warning of what could be expected if the frontiers are opened. Nonetheless, the law stoutly declares that "each citizen of the U.S.S.R. has the right to exit and enter the Soviet Union" and that this right "cannot be arbitrarily denied." Full implementation was put off supposedly...
...medicine, then gravitated toward history. "I started with American history," Gates says, "and moved east." He studied Western Europe as an undergrad, Eastern Europe for his master's degree and Russian history and language for his doctorate. Gates worked part time in Williamsburg as a school-bus driver with the eccentric habit of teaching his riders words and phrases in German and Russian. At Indiana University, he worked as a dorm counselor, as did his wife-to-be Becky, whom he met when they chaperoned a hayride...
Like Bush, Gates rises early: about 5 a.m. He runs three miles, showers, shellacs his white-gray hair and hops into the back of a black government sedan that waits outside his home in suburban Virginia. The driver hands over a packet of intelligence reports and diplomatic cables that moved overnight, and Gates scans these and the newspapers on his way to the White House. He usually eats lunch at his desk. He seldom gets home before...