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...tangling with just any old Siciliano. As it turned out, however, Graziella had been forcibly rescued by some of her husband's friends. Apparently the kidnapers were younger Mafiosi, who in recent years have grown markedly disrespectful of their elders' feelings. Even the favored nephew of Giuseppe Garda ("Don Peppino"), the boss of Monreale and an associate of Quartuccio's, was kidnaped in 1974 and ransomed for $1.5 million. To Sicilian police, the wave of killings suggested that the dons were at last losing patience with the punks...
Heavy Losses. The I.R.A. has now all but lost its command structure. Two weeks ago, the Proves' chief of staff, Seamus Twomey, 54, was picked up by the Irish Republic garda as he slept in a farmhouse across the border. Now only one veteran I.R.A. leader remains outside of jail: David O'Connell, 35, a former schoolteacher and senior political strategist. Because of the heavy losses, the Proves' cumbersome old-style military organization has been abandoned for five-and six-man cells or "active service units," which operate independently and take their orders directly from what remains...
...Harvard has beaten the M.I.T. boat twice this year, and should expect little trouble from the London Rowing Club, which leads a flock of local English entries. A west German eight is also competing and the presence of the Garda Siochana, a boatload of husky Dublin policemen, is not unexpected...
Weeks later, the Irish Supreme Court indignantly voided another old custom whereby the Garda Siochana backed English warrants in Ireland and "bundled" fugitives over the border to Northern Ireland, where waiting police hustled them off to trial in England. The court called this "a denial of justice" and a violation of the Irish Constitution. Since Britain and Ireland do not check the identity of travelers between them, the door opened wide for crooks to move as freely as commuters...
Empty Coop. Last week the Irish door clanged shut as a new law authorized any of the United Kingdom's 124 police forces to send warrants directly to Dublin, where the commissioner of the Garda Siochana will simply order the wanted man picked up and packed off. In effect, the law restores the pre-1964 system, but with the vital difference that a fugitive claiming Irish citizenship gets a 15-day breathing spell to petition for habeas corpus in an Irish court. A pending British law will send Irish warrants to local British magistrates for endorsement, provide the same...