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Returning to Italy from a visit to the U.S. last week, Italian Defense Minister Giovanni Spadolini charged that "a terrorist multinational has already been formed in France capable of striking throughout Europe." Spadolini lashed out against the French government for sheltering terrorists "in the name of an anachronistic and self-destructive concept of the right of asylum." According to unofficial sources in Rome, at least 270 suspected or convicted Italian terrorists are being granted haven in France...
...Leonora in Verdi's Il Trovatore; that performance provoked a prolonged ovation for only the fifth black artist to sing a major role in the house since Marian Anderson broke the color line six years earlier. In such dramatic soprano roles as Tosca, Donna Anna in Mozart's Don Giovanni and Verdi's other Leonora, in La Forza del Destino, Price established herself as a prima donna assoluta, and in her greatest roles--Aida and the two Leonoras--there was no one better...
Thanks to U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani and Palermo's magistrate Giovanni Falcone for taking on the Mafia and risking their own lives in the process...
...raid, directed by Palermo Investigating Magistrate Giovanni Falcone, had repercussions in the U.S. as well. Two days after the Palermo crackdown, U.S. authorities ordered the arrests of 28 Americans and Italians in New York, Illinois, New Jersey, Michigan and Wisconsin and began the procedure necessary to extradite them to Italy...
...skills beyond a natural ability with a lupara, a sawed-off shotgun. But he was quick and good-looking, and he did have some connections: his uncle Peter was a founding member of New York's Bonanno crime family and his uncle Giovanni was one of the family's leading underbosses. Bonventre was impatient; so when he tired of the construction job his "family" had found for him, he sought and got something better. He and his pal Baldassare Amato were taken on as bodyguards for Bonanno Consigliere (counselor) Carmine Galante...