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Authorities in Italy and the U.S. had long suspected the existence of the Sicilian connection, and in the late 1970s rapidly expanded joint efforts to expose and eliminate it. The cooperation has become extensive. U.S. authorities have traveled to Italy to share information with their Italian counterparts; Assistant U.S. Attorney Charles Rose flew to Brazil last year after Buscetta's arrest. Only hours after those named in the Italian arrest warrants had been taken into custody in the U.S., top law-enforcement officials from both countries met at the Justice Department in Washington to make plans for combined police...
Aiding the joint effort is a new extradition treaty (see box). Italy has requested the extradition of at least 16 men rounded up last week in the U.S. Giuliani indicated that he expects Buscetta to be brought to the U.S. to provide general information on the Mafia. And possibly for his own safety. Some law-enforcement authorities speculate that Buscetta can be better protected in the U.S. than in Italy, where Mafia dons have long found it even easier than their American counterparts to run their affairs from prison cells. Some Mafiosi, however, feel that Buscetta's days...
...officially announced that Britain would have to surrender administration, but remained determined to fix terms whereby its colony could continue flourishing in the freewheeling style to which it was accustomed. That move prompted the Chinese for the first time to agree to address specific issues, and in June a "joint working group" began to thrash out the details...
...certain to be passed by Parliament in early December, and Thatcher will fly to Peking to complete the formalities, probably at year's end. It will then remain only for the Chinese to begin the arduous task of drafting and ratifying a new Basic Law to incorporate the joint declaration. Although in theory the residents of Hong Kong may challenge the terms of the treaty, in practice they can do nothing to change them. Instead, a people famous for their speculations and their love of gambling can only rely on Chinese good sense and good faith and start taking...
...arrangement announced last week by Grinspun at the joint annual meeting of the World Bank and the IMF, Argentina pledged to clamp down on its money supply and credit, push up interest rates (currently 15.5% for deposits) in order to encourage savings, slow inflation, and stem the outflow of money from the country. Argentina also said it would try to chop the deficit in the biggest areas of public-sector spending from its level of 11.4% of gross domestic product in 1983, to 8.1% this year and down to 5.4% in 1985. In addition, Argentina indicated that it will take...