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When Reagan caught up with New York's Alfonse D'Amato, the Senator was at a restaurant in Manhattan's Little Italy. Moments earlier, D'Amato's dinner had been interrupted by a prank call from Congressman Guy Molinari of Staten Island. Convinced that his old friend was prolonging the joke, D'Amato bellowed into the telephone, "Molinari, you creep, cut out this crap!" After identifying himself, the President did not have to belabor his cause before obtaining the mortified D'Amato's support...
...aging leaders of the Mafia's New York crime families, the clean sheets of a hospital room looked much more inviting last week than the cold bars of the Metropolitan Correctional Center. FBI agents watching the Staten Island home of Aniello Dellacroce, 70, saw the longtime underboss of the Gambino family moving normally about the residence. But when agents arrived to arrest him, Dellacroce claimed to be sick and was taken to Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital. He joined Anthony ("Tony Ducks") Corallo, 72, boss of the Lucchese family, who had anticipated his imminent arrest and checked in earlier, claiming...
...another example of a primary mishap in North America, plumes of noxious malathion last October wafted from an American Cyanamid pesticide plant in New Jersey to cover most of Staten Island, N.Y. About 150 people were treated after inhaling the fumes...
...coaches who could make them play like this? No. There's only one Bobby Knight." It occurred to the Los Angeles Times's Jim Murray that putting Indiana's famous bully in charge of an Olympic team is like "assembling an aircraft carrier to ply the waters between Staten Island and the Battery." Murray wonders: "All this to beat Uruguay?" Behind former North Carolina Tarheel Michael Jordan, the Americans crushed Uruguay, 104-68. As yet no international incidents have fulminated from Knight, who is still wanted in Puerto Rico five years after menacing a gymnasium guard at the Pan American...
Americans are willing to endure much in the hope of becoming physicians. Jeanne O'Connor of Staten Island, N.Y., remembers the day she landed at her school on Montserrat: "Mosquitoes were biting me from all sides. When I got to my dorm there was a tarantula in the closet and a lizard in the bathtub. I sat on my bed and cried." Overcoming these and even greater obstacles, many students attending the better Caribbean schools do manage to emerge with adequate medical educations. Nearly 80% of the students at St. George's University School of Medicine on Grenada...