Word: arlacchi
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...blood-soaked leadership of the crime family based in the western town of Corleone -- and through it, of Sicily's criminal kingdom -- had finally repelled a country that romanticized and at times even sympathized with the so-called men of honor. Says Pino Arlacchi, a sociologist and author of two books on the Mafia: "Every time he had to make a choice between convincing and killing someone, he chose to kill...
...attempts to coordinate all activities outside Sicily. Dominated by the more powerful of the clans, the commission should sanction the murder of an important judge or politician, or approve the assassination of an uncooperative Mafioso in New York. Sometimes this system works. But on numerous occasions, says Pino Arlacchi, a sociologist on the staff of the Italian legislature's anti-Mafia commission, it does not. In fact, Arlacchi warns against giving too much importance to the structure Buscetta has described. "Certainly there are divisions of territory, and Mafia chieftains do meet periodically to coordinate activities," says Arlacchi. "But more...