Word: carabinieri
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tribal Patterns. Italian police were unhappily forced to concede that they have little effect on either Mafia or Crime Inc. Many Italians are inclined to blame police ineffectiveness on the fact that carabinieri forces in Sicily are staffed and directed by mainland Italians, who do not understand the Sicilian temperament and the intricate, tribal patterns of Sicilian behavior...
...Mayor Cerofolino, "would have happened if Nofri had stayed in the party." That night the Communist Party at Subbiano, which had prepared a riotous welcome home for Mayor Cerofolino, went on a rampage around town instead, and stormed the house of the Nofri family. A special squad of carabinieri has been guarding the house ever since. "It's not easy," said ex-Communist Italo Nofri, "but it shows what Communists are really like...
Instead, the authorities sent truckloads of carabinieri out to stop the work and haul Danilo Dolci off to jail. There, charged with "subversive agitation," he languished last week awaiting trial amid cries of protest in press and parliament. The Communists of course tried to claim his cause as theirs. But, said Italy's highly influential newspaper, Corriere della Sera, though Dolci's social ideas might be a "bit oversimplified," they are undoubtedly Christian-"the duty of all to help personally those who suffer...
Musolino's last act as a free man was the posting of a letter to his brother enclosing some money to buy candles for a church altar. Headed for Urbino with an umbrella in one hand and a knapsack on his back, he was spotted by two carabinieri and captured when his foot caught in a tangle of barbed wire. Sent to prison for life, he was declared insane twelve years later. Last week, he died in Reggio Calabria's mental hospital...
From Venice, TIME'S Art Editor Alexander Eliot cabled: THE world's biggest and best roundup of contemporary art occurs every two years in Venice. Last week red-cockaded carabinieri paraded, a splendid procession of gilded gondolas wound across the lagoon, and officials made speeches as the 27th Biennale opened in Venice's Public Gardens. In the tree-bordered pavilions bordering the lagoon, a jury representing nearly all of the 32 participating countries mulled over the thousands of paintings and sculptures...