Word: carabinieri
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This year, as the autumn sowing season arrived, Melissa's gaunt people turned hungry eyes on one of Berlingieri's idle hilltops. One foggy morning 300 of them went up with axes and picks. The carabinieri soon arrived. In the battle that followed, three of the squatters were killed, several others wounded. The police charged that the squatters started the fight, with gunfire and hand grenades; two carabinieri were seriously wounded. The carabinieri blamed the Communists, and the Communists, eager to make political capital from the peasants' discontent, promptly replied that all the Melissa casualties were indeed...
Cleanup Week. When Vatican officials heard that Rome's professional pickpockets were already casing St. Peter's Square for areas of easiest pickings, they decided things had gone far enough. Last week a committee consisting of Rome's chief of police, chief of the carabinieri and a Vatican representative cleared all stalls from the steps of St. Peter's, banned all vendors, photographers and beggars from the square...
Like many another evil man, Bandit Salvatore Giuliano (TIME, Sept. 12) loves his mother. Or so he says. While thousands of determined young carabinieri, aided by airplanes, combed the hot Sicilian hills for him last week, Giuliano henchmen boldly invaded Palermo and put up handbills: "You, carabinieri! Have you not reflected that I do not fight for money, but for the love of my mother, which God has given us as the dearest thing in our lives? Just think that there can be no family without a mother . . . What reason can you give for defining me as a bloodthirsty scoundrel...
Police Dogs & Walkie-Talkies. To take charge of the campaign against Giuliano, Scelba announced the creation of a special force of 2,000 young carabinieri, all from mainland Italy, and all unmarried. At the head of the new command he placed Colonel Ugo Luca, a robust, taciturn ex-army officer who holds eight medals for valor. Luca planned to use tough paratroopers as ground assault troops, set up small, highly mobile units equipped with machine guns, walkie-talkies and police dogs. The Italian treasury appropriated one million lire a month for the special anti-bandit campaign...
Giuliano's reaction to all the hubbub ran true to form. While the police prepared for the manhunt, his 20 or so men staged two more hit & run raids on police barracks, raising the total police and carabinieri killings attributed to them to an even 100. In a new letter to the Palermo press Giuliano proposed: "Let us give the judgment to the people of Sicily and have a poll. If the people condemn me, I promise that I will resign. But if the people want me, I want to follow my destiny...