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...trial of its kind in Italian history. Last month, however, eight Sicilian magistrates who have been leading the crackdown requested transfers; they charged that through "omissions and inertia" the government was retreating from the war against organized crime. Among the frustrated judges was Giovanni Falcone, 49, the celebrated Mafia-buster who worked on the Palermo case, as well as the Pizza Connection trial in New York City. Said Minister of Justice Giuliano Vassalli: "The Mafia can hardly fail to exploit this disagreeable episode...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: Sizing Up The Octopus | 8/22/1988 | See Source »

...similarities between Bush and Thornburgh will also help the Republicans play up the ideological differences between Bentsen and Dukakis on the Democratic ticket. Bush has spent much of his time criticizing Dukakis as weak on crime. Thornburgh's record as a hard-nosed crime buster when he was governor of Pennsylvania and as the head of the criminal division of the Justice Department will help to show the Democrats as weak on crime...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Sticking A Thorn (burgh) in the Democrats' Side | 8/5/1988 | See Source »

...used to be that Saturday matinees offered dessert before dinner, a nifty Hollywood cartoon or three before the feature film. Daffy Duck would fume, but gracefully, through some dethpickable humiliation. Droopy dog would corral a wolf felon by employing the emotional minimalism of a Buster Keaton on Quaaludes. Maybe there'd be an early Disney cartoon for more refined preteen appetites. And then, on with the main attraction! The feature was often a broken-down B-minus monster movie, and pretty much an aesthetic anticlimax after the seven-minute masterpieces that opened the show. At the time, of course, nobody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Creatures of A Subhuman Species WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT | 6/27/1988 | See Source »

...Buster") Linville, 77, is an Oak Ridge tobacco farmer who owns 300 acres of land and lives in an antiques-filled ranch house overlooking his own fishing pond. "Tobacco farmers are just doing fair," says he. "All the antismoking stuff does not add to our income, and farmers are afraid tobacco will leave them." Linville believes Gore will look out for his interests. "He's more Southern than the rest of them," he says. But "I'm not enthused," he concludes, adding cryptically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Look Away, Dixieland | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

...doesn't take a genius to figure out that something is wrong here. Come on, who casts Buster Poindexter, Tom Waits, Leon Redbone, Dr. John and Joe Strummer in a movie and then doesn't let them play? (I mean, besides Alex Cox, who did the same thing in the even more pernicious Straight to Hell...

Author: By Will Meyerhofer, | Title: Candy Molehill | 2/26/1988 | See Source »

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