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...surgery. White-haired Anthony (Tony Ducks) Corallo, 73, the alleged Lucchese family chief, is casual in a cardigan and sport shirt. Carmine (Junior) Persico, 53, is the balding, baggy-eyed showman of the trio. Elegant in a black pinstripe suit, a crisp white shirt and red tie, the accused Colombo crime boss is acting as his own attorney. "By now I guess you all know my name is Carmine Persico and I'm not a lawyer, I'm a defendant," he humbly told the jury in a thick Brooklyn accent. "Bear with me, please," he said, shuffling through his notes...
...defendant on this charge is Ralph Scopo, 57, a soldier in the Colombo family, and just as importantly, the president of the Cement and Concrete Workers District Council before he was indicted. Scopo is accused of accepting many of the payoffs from the participating concrete firms. Scopo's lawyer admits the union leader took payoffs, but he and the other attorneys deny it was part of a broader extortion scheme. Since the Mafia leaders own some of the construction companies, said Dawson, the Government was claiming "that these men extort themselves...
...most important, American pop strikes receptive non-Americans as relaxed and slaphappily loose, even liberating. For Europeans, the cascade of pop arrived in the late 1940s and '50s along with reconstruction; it was as if the Marshall Plan came with its own USO for civilians. "Remember," says Furio Colombo, the Italian president of Fiat's American division, "we were liberated in 1945 by the American troops. That is what American pop culture represents to Europe--freedom, even when it's just a fashion...
...blast came only four days after a bomb went off in the tail section of an Air Lanka Lockheed Tristar L-1011 minutes before a delayed takeoff from the Katunayake International Airport, 18 miles outside Colombo. Airline officials insisted that all luggage had been X-rayed, but the bomb is believed to have been hidden in a crate of vegetables, which apparently was not examined. The explosion snapped the plane in two as flames and debris shot from the broken fuselage. Passengers were hurriedly evacuated. Sixteen people died, most of them European and Japanese tourists on their way to beach...
Last week's acts of sabotage followed bloody clashes between rival rebel factions over how to respond to a visit by an Indian peace delegation to Colombo. The attacks would seem to indicate that the militant Tigers have triumphed and are intent on thwarting any accord between the government and more moderate Tamils. The Colombo government has rebuked the rebels for engaging in terrorist acts and promised that it "will not allow such acts of terrorism to affect the peace efforts...