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Science in the Defiles. SETAF stakes its job in a three-point pattern. Headquarters, stationed in ancient Verona, and Task Forces Alfa and Bravo,* in Vicenza, are assigned to defend Italy's northeastern frontier (Austria and Yugoslavia); about 150 miles to the southwest, at the Italian port of Livorno, is Task Force Sierra, which supplies Alfa and Bravo with everything from carbines to carefully shrouded atomic warheads. If war comes, Alfa and Bravo can take aim on or fan out into the painstakingly mapped passes and defiles of the nearby Alps with astonishing mobility. With...
Three Hats. Vissering also discovered that much of the trouble could be traced to one man. The man was hard to corner, because he wore three hats. As president of Livorno's only stevedoring company, he controlled all shiploading. As president of Livorno's Communist-line General Labor Federation, he bossed all union members. As a Communist deputy, he represented Livorno-and Joe Stalin-in the Chamber of Deputies at Rome. Under his potent trident, only card-carrying Commies and their friends could get jobs on the waterfront. His name: Vasco Jaccoponi...
Colonel Vissering, while on Eisenhower's wartime staff, had picked up a trick or two about military diplomacy. So, in his first move, instead of bringing in U.S. service troops to repair the sea wall, Vissering hired local labor. Soon Livorno's people began to suspect that the Americans had come not to requisition and rape -as the Communist press proclaimed-but to spend cash and offer jobs...
...this time, Vissering had studied his who's who of the Livorno waterfront. The man he picked to hire the stevedores was Dino Mariani, a stocky character who had once boxed on the Italian Olympic team and had run Genoa's waterfront until the Communists took it over and put him out of action (after a brutal thrashing by a Red goon squad...
...last week, Vissering seemed to have established his beachhead. Two hundred non-Communist dockers, at regular union rates, had cleared 40 ships. The first U.S. troops had disembarked without even a catcall. Livorno's streets were now lively; restaurant menus had added hamburger and ham & eggs all' americano. Always the realists, the Communists said: "Of course we still disapprove of the U.S. warmongers . . . but we cannot stand between our union members and paying jobs...