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...this (trial) is the end of the Mafia," says Palermo Prosecutor Giusto Sciacchitano. "It wasn't born yesterday, and it may not end with this. You can't destroy the Mafia with just one trial." Nonetheless, Italian and U.S. authorities are optimistic that the Palermo trial will at least choke back some of the Syndicate's activities. "The New York and Sicilian trials are two sides of the same coin," says Sciacchitano. "We have had a continual swapping of help and information. We are prosecuting the same organization...
...knack for concocting and consuming entertainments that are quick, vivid, exuberant. Razzmatazz is a plentiful U.S. natural resource, like oil but with no OPEC competitors. Americans are pop-culture vultures, profligate in the money and time they devote to making themselves giggle and choke up on cue, ooh and aah en masse. Why is it that Americans make slick movies and snappy songs and every kind of TV show so relentlessly, so effectively, so -- well, well...
...reprimanded officers who abuse citizens. Last year she banned the use of the carotid ("sleeper") hold after a Portland policeman used the neck grip and inadvertently killed a black security guard who had no criminal record. Two officers responded to the ban by selling T shirts inscribed DON'T CHOKE 'EM. SMOKE 'EM. Harrington had the officers fired, but they were reinstated by an arbitrator...
Straddling Central America with harbors on both the Caribbean and Pacific coasts, Nicaragua is strategically situated to threaten sea-lanes that carry more than half the crude oil imports of the U.S. It is but a half-hour jet flight away from perhaps the most critical "choke point" of all, the Panama Canal. There have been some ominous signs that Nicaragua is preparing to serve as a Soviet base. Warsaw Pact engineers are building a deep-water port on the Caribbean side, "similar," Reagan said in his speech, "to the naval base in Cuba for Soviet-built submarines." Under construction...
That road has already led us to Marcos' door, bearing gifts, and I'd rather not see the the kinds of friends choke points are going to make us in the future...