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Show they have been indicted for authorizing mob executions, resolving territorial disputes, sanctioning promotions and initiations, and regulating the organizations various criminal enterprises. At the moment, though, only four of these bosses are around to appear in court. The fifth, Paul Castellano, considered to have been the most powerful , was gunned down in a spectacular slaying as he arrived for dinner at a midtown Manhattan restaurant last Dec. 16. Upon being indicted, Castellano had immediately posted bail of $2 million, and the fear among his friends was that, at age 70, he might decide to talk rather than die in prison. But the bleakest prospect Cosa Nostra confronts is part of a process begun by Valachi. Besides its tightly knit structure, what gave the Mafia such a unique, dominant place in U.S. organized crime was its secrecy, its almost mystical invulnerability. Now that is gone. When Valachi talked, it was like ripping off the mask of, say, a Ku Klux Klanner for the world to see. Cosa Nostra is rapidly becoming just another gang of hoodlums, which is all it really ever was. f9 WkflA continued lion loan from a Teamsters Union pension fund to buy them. When Gennaro J. Angiulo, boss of the Boston branch of New Englands Cosa Nostra, desired to launder some of the proceeds from his gambling and loansharking operations, he went right to the Bank of Boston, the nations second oldest, presumably of rock-soli- d integrity. According to an informant in the bank developed by the FBI, Angiulos minions carried in paper bags filled with money that was promptly transferred into cashiers checks totaling SI. 7 million in 1982 alone. Then there is the case of Raymond Donovan, the former Secretary of Labor in President Reagan's Administration, who was forced to resign his Cabinet post because of allegations that a company of which he was executive vice president conspired with Mafia members in New York to swindle enormous sums in subway construction contracts. Nothing these days unnerves the Cosa Nostra leadership more than a case prosecutor Giuliani is preparing for trial later this year. It charges the bosses of the five New York families with sitting on a national commission a commission first revealed by Valachi that oversees major Mafia operations across America. Under new statutes. Peter Maas next book is Manhunt." the true story of the pursuit of a rogue CIA agent turned terrorist, to be published this spring by Random House. Your eyes may not be sensitive enough to tell them apart,butyour skin is. your naked eye, these bars of Neutrogena may look pretty much alike. But to your face, they can be as different as dry winter cheeks are from shiny summer foreheads. Our Dry Skin Formula contains extra emollients to soften dry skin. Our Oily Skin Formula uses special astringents to remove excess oil. Our Unscented Formulas are special for fragrance-sensitiv- e skin. And our Original Formula is uncommonly effective for that most common of all skin types: perfectly normal. Youll find all our formulas equally pure. Equally mild. And unequalled in their ability to cleanse so gently and rinse off so completely. , The very reason most dermatologists strongly Tb recommend Neutrogena. And the reason we strongly recommend , r. trying the Neutrogena formula designed specifi-- r , ' ' cally for your skins individual needs. v While your eyes may not detect the differ--y . N . ence, your face will, . . ; jpi |
