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...Cupola to solidify the Mafia's power structure after a leadership vacuum had followed from the high-profile earlier arrests of Bernardo Provenzano and Salvatore Lo Piccolo. Leading anti-Mob magistrate Pietro Grasso said operations over the past few years have the Sicilian Mob, also known as Cosa Nostra, on its knees. Tuesday's roundup, Grasso said, "keeps it from getting...
...then Sicilian boss of bosses Toto Riina. The bloodthirsty capo had killed dozens of their brothers, cousins, uncles and fathers in a mob war in the early 1980s, a conflict that cemented Riina's Corleone clan as the supreme rulers of Sicily's crime syndicate, also known as Cosa Nostra. Mafia experts say Riina was on his way to exterminating the rest of his rival clan when their American relatives and associates - including members of New York's Gambino family, of whom John Gotti, the infamous dapper don, was a member - intervened on their behalf. The ruthless Corleone leader...
Meanwhile, drug trafficking and international ties have been expanded by other Italian crime syndicates, notably the 'Ndrangheta of Calabria and the Camorra in the Naples area. At the same time, however, the Cosa Nostra was assaulted again and again by major Italian police crackdowns in the 1990s. Police believe that Salvatore Lo Piccolo, Provenzano's successor as Boss of Bosses, was trying to revive the Sicilian mob's fortunes by linking back up with American mobsters through the old Inzerillo connection. Lo Piccolo's arrest in November is believed to have brought more of the "Old Bridge" operation to light...
...reach 300 eventually. To be accurate, Yum first tested the market in 1992 but withdrew two years later. This time Taco Bell doesn't pretend to be Mexican. "We're Mexican-inspired," says YRI's Allan, "and Mexicans should feel proud of that." Its advertising slogan is "Es otra cosa," or "It's something else"--a pointed acknowledgment that what Yanks call a taco doesn't resemble the real thing at all (the closest thing, a tostada, is a flat, hard cornmeal disk). Fries and ice cream are lumped onto the menu, the better to differentiate it from the offerings...
...Sicilian Mafia, founded in the mid-19th century as a protection racket in Palermo, is the master template of the modern organized-crime network. Yet its success is grounded in paradox. Cosa Nostra is a multinational conglomerate based in the backwater of Sicily, an organization bred in violence that accumulates power best when it maintains internal peace. It is an association of men - sometimes men of extraordinary influence and charisma - yet the Thing is always bigger than even its most powerful bosses...