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Despite Weinberger's hard-line opposition, Shultz has been more successful in encouraging Reagan to resume negotiations with the Soviet Union on a variety of issues, most notably arms control. It is this very success, however, that has subjected Shultz to attack from those on the far right. They accuse...
Authorities suspect that the Commission's contract for the hit went to John Gotti, 45, a stocky Gambino captain and protege of Castellano's ruthless second-in-command, Aniello Dellacroce, who died of natural causes earlier this month. Dellacroce apparently wanted Gotti to succeed him, but Castellano seemed to have...
The People-Texas Air battle brought back together two old rivals. Burr was a protege of Lorenzo's at Texas Air in the 1970s but left on bad terms. Though they still dislike each other, Burr and Lorenzo share certain traits, including an antipathy for organized labor. Wall Street analysts...
The leader of the newest wave, and the fastest-rising star in the political firmament today, is Hu Qili (pronounced Chee-lee), 55, a gifted Communist Youth League activist. Even before the Communist takeover in 1949, Hu Qili was recruited for the league's secretariat while a student at Peking...
Nearly all the young reformers have the advantage of being sponsored by friends in high places. Yet the protege system has one drawback: none of the third-echelon leaders has been through the byzantine politicking and the festering feuds that have long characterized life at the top of the party...