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Democratic freshman Bruce Morrison of Connecticut, at 39 seemingly too young for his New Deal Politics, faces Larry DeNardis, an exponent of the Italian-American machine politics which has dominated his New Haven district since the fifties. Morrison nipped DeNardis 50 to 49 percent...
Gaetano Altobelli (Philip Bosco) is an Italian-American ex-Mafioso "collector." Through assiduous upward social mobility, he has risen from his birthplace on Mulberry Street in Manhattan's Little Italy to become Hud's unwelcome neighbor. Gaetano's goodly impulse is to detox Hud: "You don't have to die." But Hud sees it as an intrusion of Wop on Wasp. He hurls endless ethnic slurs at Gaetano. To salvage Hud, Gaetano takes these insults with infinite good grace and gets enough snappers back to make the evening something of a celebrity roast. In the slugfest...
Even before the Banco Ambrosiano affair, though, Marcinkus had been touched by financial scandal. In 1973 Italian-American Financier Michele Sindona sold two companies to Calvi for what was considered the greatly inflated price of $100 million. According to Giorgio Ambrosoli, the court-appointed liquidator of the Sindona empire at the time, Sindona paid a $5.6 million commission as part of the deal to "an American bishop and a Milanese banker." Official Italian sources have confirmed that Ambrosoli was refer ring to Marcinkus and Calvi. It is still not clear why the two allegedly received this money...
...first time in the day, Reagan seems ill at ease. Speaking with Colombo requires using interpreters, something Reagan has rarely done. Colombo delivers an ornate statement about the robust history of Italian-American relations. Reagan pauses, uncertain whether to address Colombo or one of the two translators, and starts his reply: "Well, I appreciate that very much. The feeling is mutual...
After appearing very briefly at an Italian-American dinner, the President went swiftly to his suite to huddle with aides who had been traveling with him, and also with is chief political adviser, Hamilton Jordan, just arrived from Washingon. Jordan had flown in especially to help Carter prepare for an event expected to take place within hours in Tehran. The Majlis, or Iranian parliament, was about to vote on the fate of the American hostages, who have been in captivity for a full year...