Word: cosa
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Former Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti, the country's leading postwar statesman, went on trial Tuesday, charged with trading political favors in Rome for votes supplied by the Mafia . "Is it possible that a man who represented Italy for 50 years at the same time swore allegiance to Cosa Nostra?" his defense attorney, Franco Coppi, shouted to the Palermo courtroom. The 76-year-old Andreotti, a reputed crime-fighter who served as premier seven times, is the highest Italian official ever to be tried on mob charges. "Much of the testimony against Andreotti is supplied by pentiti -- repentant Mafiosi...
Sabotaging the competition is a venerable American tradition, from la Cosa Nostra putting sugar in rivals' gas tanks, to Nixon's dirty tricks operatives harassing the McGovern campaign. Should the public, then, really be devastated when something similar, though less serious, happens in the competitive world of figure skating...
...year-old FBI debriefing report of Alfonso ("Little Al") D'Arco, the former acting boss of the Lucchese crime family, who has been hiding in the Witness Protection Program since 1991. According to the report (see opposite page), D'Arco revealed that Carey was tied to La Cosa Nostra through the late Joseph ("Joe Shrugs") Trerotola, a legendary Teamster kingmaker who resigned in 1991 at age 82 amid charges he allowed organized crime to flourish in the union...
...lira from Europe's exchange-rate mechanism told Italians that their economy was not as resilient as they once thought. Then they were forced to confront the power of the Mafia. And for 18 agonizing months they have been discovering that the crooks are not confined to the Cosa Nostra but reach right into the country's political establishment...
...first and most famous Mafia turncoat, Tommaso Buscetta, was brought back to Italy from the U.S.,where he has lived since his testimony in the 1986-87 "maxi-trial" helped convict 338 mafiosi. Buscetta told the national Anti- Mafia Commission what many Italians have long suspected: that the Cosa Nostra controls many of the country's politicians. He claimed that the current campaign of arrests had decimated the Mafia and persuaded many to break the code of silence known as omerta. National police chief Vincenzo Parisi promised that squealers will get a new home -- outside Italy...