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...program was by no means the only bombshell of this newsy summer. The past two months have seen the Pentagon papers, the death of three Soviet cosmonauts and the safe voyage of three American astronauts, the historic Kissinger mission to Peking, coup attempts in Africa, the shooting of Joe Colombo and the political conversion of John Lindsay. Then there are the continuing dramas, like the agony of East Pakistan and the civil strife in Northern Ireland, that show no respect for vacation schedules...
...What's a Mafioso gangster like Joseph Sr. doing with a nice Italian name like Colombo...
...extend my deepest sympathy to Joe Colombo [July 12] not only for suffering at the hands of senseless violence, but also for failing to rally enough support to get the editors of newsmagazines to observe the "law of omertà" namely silencing their writers' biased attacks on the Italian-American community. Joe Colombo will long be remembered as a champion of freedom for millions of Italian Americans. He will not be remembered as a "progenitor of the Mafia...
...truthfully a shame that the legitimate grievances of many Italian Americans are so openly exploited by an actual "godfather" of Colombo's type. This, while he and others in organized ciime continue to exploit and parasitically live off of all Americans...
According to this thesis, the Colombo rackets will fall to Persico as his reward. Then, the scenario goes, Persico, who has never been much of a leader, will botch up, leaving the road clear for Gambino to take uncontested control of the Colombo interests...