Word: campania
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...Mafia's clout has made it a force strong enough to form an "anti-state." Domenico Sica, the high commissioner named last summer for the specific task of fighting the Mafia, recently warned a parliamentary commission that organized crime was in "total control" of parts of Sicily, Calabria and Campania. The Mob's lucrative drug trade has been shared with its crime families in America...
...ingredients were in place for a stew of a scandal. At stake were nothing less than the fate of the Italian tomato crop, one of the country's leading exports, and the pride of Campania, a lush farming region that stretches from Naples to the slopes of Vesuvius. At the height of the harvest two weeks ago, deliveries of tomatoes to canneries were abruptly suspended by the Italian Ministry of Agriculture. Reason: suspicions that much of a 200,000-metric-ton crop, perhaps 30% of a bumper harvest, contained the poisonous insecticide aldicarb. Marketed by Union Carbide under the trade...
...clung to the shattered remnants of their old lives, enduring privation, disease and wet, bitter weather that turned their devastated villages into muddy swamps. "What the people in Rome and Naples seem to have forgotten is that we are all farmers here," explained Felice Imbriani, mayor of Conza della Campania, some 60 miles east of Naples. "What we need are trailers for ourselves and somewhere to store the hay and animals from our destroyed barns. We are determined to stay through the winter...
...early evening as most of the country was sitting down to Sunday supper. Thirty-three smaller tremors followed during the night, ranging in intensity from 3.5 to 4.5 (see SCIENCE). From its epicenter at Eboli, near Salerno, the terremoto radiated its destruction through the regions of Campania and Basilicata, a rugged belt of parsimonious countryside between the Apennines and the Tyrrhenian Sea on the ankle of the Italian boot. Though it struck the major cities in its path, the quake concentrated with cruel efficiency on impoverished rural villages. In all, 179 communities suffered at least some damage...
Threatened in its home, the Roman Catholic Church also counterattacked. The bishops of Campania issued a warning to the faithful: they must 1) be sure to vote; 2) vote against Communists and their allies or be "excluded from receiving the benefits of the holy sacraments...