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Among the 2,020,000 European immigrants who have poured into postwar Australia, fully 260,000 have been Italians, mostly from Calabria and Sicily. The newcomers added much that is welcome Down Under, from pizza and pasta to espresso bars and truck gardens. But as Melbourne last week was shaken by the shotgun explosions of gang warfare, Australians became aware that the new Italian immigrants had also brought with them the blood feuds of the Mafia and Camorra, as well as the code of silence induced by omerta (death for informers...
What does a man do who is hounded by his creditors and tired of his wife? In the port of Reggio Calabria on Italy's toe. he sells his wife...
...slugging, furniture-throwing fight. Finally Raffa grabbed a pistol and shot Marino three times in the chest. Marino died on the way to the hospital, and soon afterward, Raffa surrendered to the police. Perplexed as to how to enter Marino's death on the police blotter, Reggio Calabria's cops finally settled on the notation: "Killed in a dispute over the final payment on his wife...
...Parliament an $800 million "Green Plan" to aid agriculture, as well as a $600 million recovery plan for long-neglected Sardinia. He often goes on tour to hear local complaints and to see what is being accomplished with new government grants-and little escapes his sharp eye. Once in Calabria an overzealous official trucked dairy cattle from one project to another to give his boss the illusion of rapidly spreading herds. Fanfani noted that they were the same cows at each stop, fired him on the spot...
...this season-the largest questions, whether of Catholic theology or of living in the world, that man can ask. The play begins with a dying man sent off to ask questions about a dead one: a cancer-ridden English monsignor at the Vatican journeys to a mountain town in Calabria to serve as devil's advocate in the matter of a possible canonization. He is to investigate-in terms of his role, as critically as possible-the qualifications for sainthood of "Giacomo Nerone,'' an English World War II deserter who, before being executed by the Communists...