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Feudal Power. Some people believe Joe Bonanno was actually kidnaped and got his captors to release him by agreeing to give up his New York activities. He was then supposed to have reneged and fled to Haiti, where he had gambling interests under the protection of the late dictator, François ("Papa Doc") Duvalier. Whatever happened, the result was a New York Mafia power struggle known as the Banana War. It ended with at least seven dead. In 1966, Bill Bonanno was almost killed in a Brooklyn ambush. After Joe Bonanno reappeared, his house in Tucson, Ariz., was bombed...
WITHOUT MARX OR JESUS by Jean-François Revel. 269 pages. Doubleday...
...Jean-François Revel has been described by Mary McCarthy as having a "bullish" aspect, a "broad-browed, head-lowered promise of some intransigent charge into the arena." With critical hoofs stamping and literary horns waggling, what Revel gores is myths. After teaching in Florence, for instance, he wrote a book suggesting, among other heresies, that Italian men are far less virile than popular legend...
...colors-a small American flag above a larger Israeli flag -are lowered. The rest of the time the campers practice close-order drill, pull KP and read some of the library's 200-odd books. Among the most popular are Treblinka, by Jean-François Steiner, and While Six Million Died, by Arthur D. Morse, which accuses Franklin D. Roosevelt of slackness in coming to the aid of Hitler's victims. One book is required reading: The Palestine Underground, by Y. Borisov. For good behavior, campers can earn a weekly pass that allows them to go into...
...Dominican Republic and Haiti have Mexico to thank for their new source of income. Troubled by the tawdry image of the Ciudad Juárez divorce factory, Mexican federal authorities last year successfully pressed for an end to the practice. Haiti's late dictator, François ("Papa Doc") Duvalier, promptly signed a quickie divorce law and the Dominican Republic soon followed suit...