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...minority-owned companies. Since some 80% of Schiavone's $186 million contract to extend a subway under the East River was federally financed, the Schiavone company needed to find a so-called MBE (Minority Business Enterprise) to do part of the work. Thus Masselli set up the Jo-Pel Contracting and Trucking Co. and claimed that at least 51% of it was owned by Joseph Galiber, a black state senator from The Bronx. Merola's evidence shows that Galiber, while drawing a $700 weekly salary as Jo-Pel's president, had no equity in the company...
...caught aiding the guerrillas are often killed by the Sandinistas. The contras can be equally brutal when they uncover Sandinista informers or seize enemy troops. "If we capture them in a fight and they have no more ammunition, then they must die," said a subcomandante known as Pelón. "That shows they were trying to kill us and gave up only because they had no more shells." If a Sandinista soldier surrenders with a full clip, however, the contras conclude he does not want to hurt them and he is spared. Says Pelón: "We give them...
...year. Joining forces with students, businessmen, feminist organizations and labor unions, they began to stage mass demonstrations. Since January, hundreds of thousands of people have turned out in the cities of Curitiba, São Paulo and Belo Horizonte. Even the world's best-known Brazilian, Soccer Star Pelé, has declared his support by dedicating a replica of Brazil's most coveted soccer cup to the cause...
...have been questioned in the Silverman probe, and charged him with second-degree murder. Federal investigators believe that the Mob, unable to "reach" the elder Masselli in prison, may have ordered the death of his son as a message to keep quiet. Masselli is also co-owner of Jo-Pel Contracting & Trucking Corp., which has been named in a half-million-dollar New York City landfill and excavation scandal. But investigators tend to discount this as a possible motive for Nat Masselli's murder...
...contradictory but much needed correction to his economic policies. In retrospect, the 226-to-207 victory was hardly surprising: the President has made such miracles seem commonplace. What was out of the ordinary was the nature of the triumph. Reagan, who had come to Washington preaching a gos pel of tax cuts, had wrested from an election-edgy Congress a huge tax increase that is expected to raise $98.3 billion over the next three years...