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...them." While U.S. officials emphatically deny that such contracts have been promised, Yugoimport was back in Baghdad, reopening the offices that just last year were peddling arms to Saddam. - By Andrew Purvis and Dejan Anastasijevic/Belgrade NAPLES CAN'T REFUSE ITALY Several Naples city councilmen blamed the Camorra organized-crime syndicate for a garbage-collection stoppage last week, which resulted in giant trash heaps on the streets and reeking dumpsters being set ablaze. After public-waste dumps reached capacity, about 20,000 tons of rubbish piled up around the city. The fires forced the closures of schools and outdoor markets...
...bringing back the bombs too." Italy got a disturbing reminder last week that violence is still a key Mafia tool and the female factor doesn't necessarily add up to a kinder, gentler organization. In a small town near Naples, a 30-year feud between rival families of the Camorra crime syndicate led to an explosion of female violence that was unprecedented for the Italian Mob. After exchanging slaps and threats at the local Lauro di Nola beauty parlor last Sunday, several female relatives from the Graziano family cornered a carload of women from the Cava clan and opened fire...
...justice in the world, the name Piazzolla would have a secure place in the pantheon of twentieth-century musical masters. And this three-CD collection of Piazzolla's American Clave recordings (Tango: Zero Hour, from 1986, The Rough Dancer and the Cyclical Night, from 1987 and La Camorra: La Soledad De La Provocacion Apasionada from 1989; the set is distributed through Cambridge's very own Rounder Records) serves as a beautiful testament to Piazzolla's genius, featuring almost three hours of some of the most haunting, searching, intensely emotional music of this century...
...Piazzolla's brilliance; it is hard to imagine a music lover of any sort who would not immediately fall in love with the erotic sensibility and impassioned brilliance displayed on these albums. By the time you get to the mournful "Sur: Regreso Al Amor," the last track on La Camorra, (a tune which is a perfect illustration of just how much contemporary avant-guard American artists like Tom Waits have drawn from Piazzolla's work) you will have gone on an aural journey with one of the twentieth century's true musical geniuses...
...murders of two of the country's top Mafia prosecutors. Last September, Giuseppe ("Piddu") Madonia, a member of the Mafia's 24-man decision-making body known as the Cupola, was caught after police tapped his portable phone. The same week Carmine Alfieri, the leader of the Camorra, the Naples crime syndicate that competes and cooperates with the Sicilian Mafia, was taken into custody. Even Riina's 84-year-old uncle was picked up in the search for the top don. Nonetheless, said Interior Minister Nicola Mancino, "the fight is a long way from being finished...