Word: mafiosi
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...joyous last night," says TIME's Greg Burke. "A victory celebration broke out when he was brought in, especially since he had killed three of their own." Brusca is also charged with the murder of Giuseppe Di Matteo, the 11 year-old son of Santino Di Matteo, a former Mafiosi who became a government witness. Brusca allegedly first kidnapped the boy to end his father's collaboration, but when that didn't work, strangled him and threw his body in a vat of acid. "He is considered to be the most wanted of the Mafia fugitives," says Burke...
...days when New York pols with great names--Meade Esposito, Stanley Steingut--swaggered toward a dread destiny. The bad guys in City Hall are in that mold: princes of darkness, Borgias of Brooklyn. The movie's obvious forebear is The Godfather, which apotheosized the dirty dealings of statesmen and Mafiosi in the richly upholstered, 10-watt throne room of Hades...
...Nostra?" his defense attorney, Franco Coppi, shouted to the Palermo courtroom. The 76-year-old Andreotti, a reputed crime-fighter who served as premier seven times, is the highest Italian official ever to be tried on mob charges. "Much of the testimony against Andreotti is supplied by pentiti -- repentant Mafiosi -- and 26 are scheduled to testify against him," Greg Burke reports from the trial. "There's considerable debate about how reliable the testimony of ex-Mafiosi is." To shore himself up, Burke adds, Andreotti wants to bring in former U.S. ambassadors to talk about his commitment in fighting the Mafia...
This need to find satisfying villains also explains the endurance of Kennedy-assassination theories. To concede that Lee Oswald could by himself murder a President is to realize that history is significantly random; perversely, it's more reassuring to believe that a confederation of fbi and cia agents, mafiosi, Cubans and Kennedy's autopsy doctors hatched a plot remarkable both for its reach and for the fact that in more than three decades not a single participant has sung. Who were these adroit conspirators? The same men who two years earlier launched the quixotic, inept Bay of Pigs operation...
...wide an audience. He was a master of the graceful exit, the teasing diminuendo. He had a fondness for half-concealing his cleverest effects, so that you might have to read a poem two or three times before you detect the rhyme of "dirigible" with "unmarriageable" or "rosy" with "Mafiosi." Dexterity was simply one of the givens of his work-as was his erudition, his homosexuality, his wealth, his cosmopolitan life...