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...looking to enjoy himself more than Joseph Colombo Sr., 48, the league's burly founder, unofficial leader and chief promoter. The head of one of New York's five Mafia families of organized crime, Colombo had discovered a double life through the league. Started casually, in one year it grew into a genuine vehicle of expression for thousands of Americans of Italian descent who had nothing to do with the Mafia or crime. Harnessing their honest sentiments, Colombo had helped Italian Americans to achieve new pride?and managed to do a few things for the narrower cause as well, like...
Thus, on his day, Colombo moved easily through the crowd, shaking hands, joking, posing for photographers. Suddenly shots rang out, barely audible above the noise of the happy crowd. Colombo crumpled to the ground, bleeding heavily from the head and neck...
...instead to look to the right to form coalitions. The Christian Democrats insist that they will never team up with the M.S.I. But some members of the party, which has dominated Italian politics since 1945, suggest that M.S.I, gains might be a good thing-if only to shake Emilio Colombo's center-left coalition government out of its lethargy. Says Ugo La Malfa, leader of the small, slightly left Republican Party: "I see it as an alarm bell. Already the Christian Democrats are showing signs of worry and are changing their course toward greater seriousness and discipline in government...
Judge Robert Colombo took the advice. With jury, lawyers and defendant in tow, he toured the murder site. It had been freshly painted, and some workers said they had been cleaning up nonstop since the shootings. But it was clear that little had really changed. Workers stopped to watch as the judge, Johnson and the others walked by. Their gazes reflected little anger and much sympathy; there were muffled cries of "Hey, Brother Johnson . . . Right on, Brother Johnson...
...prosecutor hardly helped his case by talking of "black boys" and asking one of Johnson's cousins whether she had ever slept with him. After some of the questioning, Judge Colombo wrote on his note pad, "I cannot believe my ears." A villain to many liberals for having once sentenced a marijuana defendant to 9½ years, Judge Colombo was nonetheless scrupulously fair to the defense. "I used to work on the line in an auto plant during the summers," he recalls. "That's a lot of what persuaded me to go to law school. I hated...