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...progress--or lack of it--in the cleanup efforts is also in sharp dispute. Some initial skeptics took heart from the high caliber of FBI agents hired by the union: Robert Luskin, a former federal organized-crime prosecutor; Douglas Gow, formerly the No. 2 man at the FBI; and a fleet of seasoned former agents. They insist they are totally independent of Coia. Critics point out that they are paid by the union, which Coia still heads...
...government's contention that the union really is being cleansed got a boost Friday when Luskin and Gow moved to expel 28 suspected mobsters and associates from Local 210 in Buffalo, New York, and bar them from ever resuming membership. Under the Justice-Laborers deal, the expulsions can be contested before a union legal officer, and then another official can be designated to hear appeals. If the expulsions hold up, however, they will accomplish something that has eluded the government for three decades: breaking Mob control of Local...
Republican David Gow returned the challenge by citing what he called the Democrats' inconsistencies regarding such policies as trickle-down economics, the capital gains tax and free trade with other parts of the world...
...Gow challenged the Democrats to justify the stands taken on those issues by presidential candidates Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton and former Massachusetts Sen. Paul E. Tsongas, asking, "Where do you stand, Democrats...
...I.R.A.'s biggest score, though, was Gow, 53, Thatcher's parliamentary private secretary during her first four years in office and a passionate defender of Britain's constitutional ties to Northern Ireland. Although Gow's name was on a hit list of some 100 persons, the M.P. continued to give his address and number in the phone book. Under the cover of darkness, police deduced, a 4 1/2-lb. Semtex charge was attached to the bottom of Gow's auto while it was parked outside his 16th century home in the village of Hankham, in Sussex, 60 miles from London...