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...plain, Giuliano has carved out his realm. In six years, the police say, he and his band have killed more than 200 people, kidnaped scores of wealthy latifondisti (rich landowners) and made an estimated $2,000,000 in ransom. Time & again, the Italian government has sent entire companies of carabinieri to capture him. Each time the hills above Montelepre and the undernourished, goatskin-gaitered Montelepre peasants have refused to give him up. Hundreds have been arrested for aiding or sheltering him, but, to most Sicilians, as to most little Roman boys, Giuliano is still a hero...
...kidnapings, Giuliano made a direct attack against the carabinieri in the dusty little hamlet of Bellolampo (Beautiful Lightning), only 20 minutes from Palermo. Luring the carabinieri out of their barracks, the bandits set off amine, blew up a truckload of 25. Seven died. When police officials rushed to the scene from Palermo, Giuliano's men tossed a grenade at the officials' car, swapped shots with them in a 15-minute fight...
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...
...another to the Catholic authorities in Bologna. On their weather-beaten, 17th Century church and on the rocky mountain road they put up big signs: "Affrico wants Don Giorgio . . . Don Giorgio, come back to your parish." Said a burly peasant: "If Don Giorgio doesn't come back, the carabinieri had better get themselves a barracks up here...
...some areas Communist agitators armed with guns and clubs rode out of cities in trucks to patrol country roads, force the braccianti into the strike. At Molinella, northeast of Bologna, they ambushed farmhands going to the fields, tangled savagely with carabinieri who came to the rescue. In the melee, a Red woman worker was shot dead. Twenty-seven anti-Red workers went to the hospital. One moaned: "Will it never end? Can one never work in peace...