Word: pel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Further questions have also been raised about Donovan's relationship with William Masselli, who has been described by the FBI as an alleged Mafia "soldier." Masselli is president of Jo-Pel Contracting and Trucking Corp., which was a subcontractor for Schiavone. At Donovan's confirmation hearings, the FBI mentioned his alleged connections with Masselli, but shed little light on them. "I do not have any background whatsoever on him," Executive Assistant FBI Director Francis Mullen told the Senate committee. He added that there was "no reference" to Donovan in FBI wiretaps used to monitor organized crime...
With his field-tested flair for showmanship, and commercials for American Express behind him, Edson Arantes do Nascimento is chasing another goal: film acting. Pelé's role in Escape to Victory, now being shot by Director John Huston in Budapest, is classic typecasting. The former U.S. and Brazilian soccer star plays a former Trinidadian soccer star imprisoned in a German P.O.W. camp along with Michael Caine, who, as luck would have it, played on the British national team, Sylvester Stallone, a brash American captain with promise as a goalie, and other prisoners of unquestionable talent-the cast includes...