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...first effects of the new Kremlin twist-back to Popular Fronts-was felt in Greece last week. There, with a national election only a week off, the Communists were switching to middle-of-the-road political parties. The orders came via "bandit radio" from Rumania, with the voice of exiled Communist leader Nicholas Zachariades telling Greeks to vote for Premier Nicholas Plastiras' National Progressive Union of the Center in the Nov. 16 general election. While naming Plastiras "a traitor ... an enemy of the people and an agent of American-ocracy," Zachariades said Communist voters must aim at "getting...
...people of Orgosolo, like those in many another village of Sardinia, live with banditry as they live with poverty-helplessly, fearfully and always. Orgosolo's bandits often slip into town from their hiding places in the mountains to spend a night with their wives and children, but the villagers who recognize them stay mum, for the bandit code called omerta exacts a heavy penalty from the informer, whether bandit or honest...
Whitewash & Tar. For years the most feared bandit in all Orgosolo has been a dark-eyed ruffian named Gian Battista Liandru, who turned outlaw some 32 years ago when he became bored with sheepherding at the age of 17. In time Liandru's forays became as legendary in the Sardinian hills as those of Jesse James in Missouri. Local law officers credited him and his band with more crimes than they could ever have found time to commit, but they could never find him to press the charges. Then, three years ago, Liandru's luck seemed to turn...
Fairy Tales & a Bullet. But the code of omertà is not repealed with a bandit's capture. The Liandru band still lurked in the mountains, and the list still stood, hidden by whitewash, on the church wall. Maddalena Liandru herself was shot down on her way to visit her husband in jail soon after his capture. Her sister's lover, Salvatore Patteri, whose sudden affluence may or may not have come from a 2,000,000-lire reward paid for Liandru, was killed a short time later as he staggered home from a drunken spending spree...
...Francisco, when a youthful gunman walked into his store. Liquor Store Operator Thomas Lagios groaned: "Oh. no. not again' was told: "Yeah, again." by the bandit, who cleaned the cash register of $64, ordered Lagios into a back room where he piled ten cases of beer on top of him-for the second time in two days...