Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mullen also failed to tell the committee about a series of wiretaps on the phones of William Masselli, a Genovese family "soldier." Those wiretaps, according to the Silverman report, show that Masselli boasted of how "I get along good with all the bosses" of the Schiavone Co.; he was overheard naming the five top officers, including Donovan...
...early mornings, as mist rose off the Potomac River, Haig often had breakfast with a guest in his seventh-floor State Department aerie, where only his soldier's voice and the ticking of an antique clock broke the solemn silence. At such encounters, his misty ambition was freed. In this fantasy, he was on Capitol Hill putting together a practical budget, making sensible deals with Speaker Tip O'Neill and the Democrats, fashioning legislative maneuvers that made things work rather than standing prettily on ideology. His mind, in these unfettered and rare interludes, was into weapons and food...
...such were the aims of French Caravaggisti like Valentin de Boulogne (1591-1632), whose Fortune Teller raises narrative to a pitch of ironic theater worthy of Caravaggio himself. It is a raffish image of tavern survival: the old circular comedy, as the gypsy woman bilks a credulous soldier while a man steals her chicken and a little girl lifts the thief's purse...
...bugs and wiretaps placed by the FBI in a windowless Bronx warehouse recorded a sordid tale of dealings between New Jersey's Schiavone Construction Co. and a subcontracting firm run by William Masselli, a soldier in the Genovese Mafia clan. But the FBI did not bring up these taps during the confirmation hearings last year of Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan, who was a vice president and part owner of Schiavone, even though Donovan's name came up in the recorded conversations. FBI Director William Webster last week sought to shift the blame for this lapse away from...
British correspondents on the scene quote a young Argentine soldier taken prisoner on the first day as saying, "We did not think we would have to fight when we went to the Malvinas. I was given only a rifle and six bullets. I did not know why I was sent there...