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...students violate their probations, "it's a likelihood that they would be suspended or expelled," said Michael S. Silvestri, managing editor of The Brown Daily Herald...
...overall mood in Washington and Western Europe was one of deep worry. As Stefano Silvestri of Rome's Institute for Foreign Affairs put it, the tone of Andropov's reply seemed "to suggest the bad temper of Khrushchev at the beginning of the '60s, and that of course brings memories of the Berlin crisis, the Cuban missile crisis and all the rest." Against that gloomy backdrop, it was tempting last week to conclude that as relations with the Soviet Union deteriorated, the Ad- ministration was playing its China card, cozying up to the world's most...
According to the latest charges, a New Jersey land developer named Joseph Silvestri introduced Thompson, 61, a 13-term Congressman and the influential chairman of the House Administration Committee, to Philadelphia Attorney Howard Criden...
Thompson, accompanied by Criden, then allegedly met with two FBI agents posing as representatives of Arab businessmen and accepted $50,000 in return for promising to introduce private immigration bills in Congress. Thompson was said to have split the bribe with Silvestri and Criden, both of whom were also indicted last week, and then referred Criden to Murphy...
...crime. The bounteous Arab sheik was strictly the creation of the bureau. The targets of its probe were sometimes subjected to a pretty hard sell-never by the FBI, but by contacts who were anxious to set up deals with the high-spending sheik. When Middleman Joseph Silvestri first approached Congressman James Florio in his office on Capitol Hill, he was turned down. Silvestri then called Florio at home, inviting the Congressman out for a "good time" and adding that his friends were "very, very generous." Florio finally hung up on him. A top Justice Department official makes the point...