Word: carabinieri
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Conducted in a fortress-like Rome gymnasium guarded by several hundred police and carabinieri, the trial lasted nearly nine months and involved testimony from 298 witnesses. Throughout the proceedings, the defendants, 18 of whom were women, were penned in six steel cages, while those who had become informants were protected by bulletproof glass. As one of the cooperative terrorists walked to his seat last week, a defendant yelled, "You would sell your own mother...
That goal remains distant. The breash carabinieri general himself, shortly after accepting his post as prefect, admitted: "I don't speak of beating [the Mafia], only of containing them." After Dalla Chiesa's assassination, and the flouting of the state's authority that came with it, even containment seems impossible. Last weekend, for example, four new names, including that of a 15-year old boy, were added to the endless list of victims in Palermo's age-old battle for survival against those gangsters who, in John Paul's words, "have spilled so much blood, [and] caused so many dead...
...harshest indictment yet of the Rome government's inability to halt the epidemic of brutal criminal violence that has gripped Italy in recent years. The Archbishop of Palermo was presiding over a highly emotional memorial service for Carabinieri General Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa, the appointed prefect of Palermo, who had arrived in May to spearhead the government's efforts to clean up the Sicilian Mafia. The day before, Dalla Chiesa, 62, and his bride of less than two months, Emanuela Setti Carraro, 32, were slain in downtown Palermo during an ambush by presumed Mafia hitmen...
...least 1,200 carabinieri established roadblocks in the region around Verona. Hundreds of others fanned out through the Northern Italian cities of Padua, Bolzano and Mestre, looking for clues and searching abandoned houses. Meanwhile, six antiterrorist experts from the U.S. Defense Department rushed to the scene. Yet by week's end the biggest manhunt since the 1978 assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro had come up empty. There was still no hint of the whereabouts of Brigadier General James Dozier, 50, the U.S. Army officer held by Italy's terrorist Red Brigades...
...local police for his personal safety. Traveling in Italy, he rates a six-man motorcycle escort, busloads of carabinieri and plainclothes police in the crowd. In his 1979 visit to New York City, he was protected by thousands of policemen. In Japan last year police carried special steel racquets to bat away thrown objects-a quaint reminder of the success of the country's ultrastrict gun laws...