Word: manzini
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...real hero was Italy's ambassador in London, Raimondo Manzini, who helped to arrange a new formula under which Italy, West Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands and the U.S. will share with Britain the rental costs of the British base on Malta. Other NATO powers will not be able to use the island-unless, of course, they are prepared to part with additional baksheesh-but they at least won Mintoff's guarantee that Malta will not provide military facilities for members of the Warsaw Pact...
...Manzini had made a bet of a bottle of champagne with Lord Carrington, the British Defense Minister, that a settlement would be reached. Manzini collected his bottle, but the price of the new agreement to his government will run to more than $50 million over the next seven years. Last week at the signing ceremony in London, glasses of champagne were duly raised in a toast to the successful completion of the negotiations; Lord Carrington left his glass untouched...
...river in New Orleans. His first big money comes from running whorehouses, though the early jazz-band accompaniments nearly drive his tin ears crazy. Prohibition bootlegging eventually accounts for his real power and fortune. While it must be said that Oliver is not Italian, his partners are called Manzini and Lamotta, and he marries into a thriving Sicilian clan. Gradually, all the standard gangland props are assembled: henchmen, reprisals, shootouts at the warehouse, payoffs and protection rackets. The author even seems to have anticipated the recent caveats of the Italian-American Civil Rights League: the world Mafia is missing. Indeed...