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...region where personal suffering is often used as a yardstick of political legitimacy, al-Husseini's credentials are impressive. His father, Abdul Qader al-Husseini, became a martyr to Palestinians in 1948 during a battle between Palestinian and Jewish fighters in the mountain village of Kastel west of Jerusalem. The younger al-Husseini has endured continuous hardship since graduating from a Syrian military college in 1967. Arrested five times by Israeli officials, he has spent 42 months in prison and an additional five years under house arrest. Since 1988, when Israeli officials shut down his Arab Studies Society, a research...
...well be right. Every church today has its share of experiments looking ahead to the 21st century. In Germany, for example, the Protestant Evangelical Academies bring Christians together for weekend seminars to discuss, on a thoroughly professional level, such secular issues as urban planning and traffic problems. Mainz-Kastel is the center of Lutheran Pastor Horst Symanowski's yearly industrial seminar for ministers, who divide
...investigating Costello, the Revenue men are checking his slip of paper, the Supreme Court is reviewing his tax case, the Justice Department is working on his deportation, and attorneys are writing briefs on infringements of his constitutional rights. Last but not least, Frank Costello and his assistant, Dandy Phil Kastel, are probably looking for a "torpedo" who weighs two hundred and thirty-five pounds, and "waddles when he walks...
...Williams got interested in the income taxes of racketeers. Organized crime cannot exist without political protection, and it was only logical to suspect that the protection might extend to income taxes. Williams got and put into the Senate records the income-tax files of Harry Gross, Frank Costello, Phil Kastel, Ralph Capone, Greasy Thumb Guzik and others. Costello, for instance, was 20 years delinquent in taxes and had not been investigated for ten years. The Treasury protested that it couldn't collect from Costello because he didn't seem to have any property. Williams helpfully furnished the address...
...Orleans, a federal grand jury indicted five men for contempt of Congress for their refusal to answer some of the crime investigators' questions. Among the defendants: Dandy Phil Kastel, Frank Costello's New Orleans gambling partner, and Carlos Marcello, described by Kefauver as "one of the most important criminals in the country...