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ACQUITTED. Jack Elder, 41, Roman Catholic activist in the sanctuary-movement network of some 200 U.S. church congregations that harbor illegal immigrants fleeing violence-shattered Central American countries; of charges that last March he transported three undocumented Salvadorans from a San Benito, Texas, refuge to a bus station "in furtherance of their illegal presence" in the U.S.; in Corpus Christi, Texas. A federal judge ruled that Elder's conduct was based on his religious beliefs; the jury concluded that Elder's actions did not further the aliens' illegal journey. A Government spokesman says that the verdict will not interfere with...
...except those actually in volved in the operation began to realize the import of what had happened. Before dawn on Sept. 29, the day of the feast of St. Michael, patron of the police, Italian authorities had conducted one of the biggest crack downs on the Mafia since Dictator Benito Mussolini's relentless suppression of that fabled criminal organization in the 1920s. Armed with copies of the warrant for the arrest of 366 Mafia members, 140 of whom were already in jail, police rounded up 53. By the time the sun rose, the jails that had been set aside...
...order to consolidate his dictatorship, Benito Mussolini decided to crush the Mafia in the mid-1920s. Using such draconian methods as torture and summary execution, the police weakened the Mafia's stranglehold on Sicily. Don Vito was arrested and convicted for smuggling. When the president of the court asked Don Vito if he had something to say in his defense, the tall, distinguished-looking old man with a flowing beard declared, "Gentlemen, since you have been unable to find any evidence for the numerous crimes I really have committed, you are reduced to condemning me for the only...
Mary N. Hughes San Benito, Texas...
...earthquake left the city of San Salvador in ruins. The residential neighborhoods of San Francisco, San Benito and Escalón creep up the sides of a volcano, still challenging risk. The inhabitants-landowners, entrepreneurs, professionals, businessmen-have grown accustomed over the past decade to the hazard of assassination attempts and kidnapings. Their homes have been surrounded by high walls, barbed wire and searchlights, and the richest among them move about town in armored Cherokees, accompanied by bodyguards. These vehicles have come to be a status symbol, and Salvadorans laugh at the many parvenus who buy them...