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...represented Italy for 50 years at the same time swore allegiance to Cosa 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...
...America," died Monday in New York of a heart attack. The radical barrister, once "special trial counsel" to Martin Luther King Jr., made a national name for himself defending the Chicago Seven and, more recently, such diverse and controversial figures as Indian activist Leonard Peltier, flag burner Gregory Johnson, mob boss John Gotti and Washington, D.C. Mayor Mayor Marion Barry. "He was definitely one of the leading left-of-center lawyers in this century," says legal correspondent Adam Cohen. "His cases showed the country that it was divided on many issues. But he was criticised late in his career...
...headlines. Not only did Meave Leakey draw worldwide attention last week for her latest discovery of hom inid fossils, but in addition her husband Richard, trying to address an opposition political rally in the Kenyan town of Nakuru two weeks ago, was among a group beaten by a mob wielding ax handles and whips. As Virginia Morell shows in Ancestral Passions, her splendid new collective biography of the Leakey family (Simon & Schuster; $30), this is no surprise; Leakeys have been prominent and colorful figures in paleontology and Kenyan affairs for almost a century...
...laughing at 'Hello' and killing himself at 'Hello, Bob.' " Casting Rickles wasn't the only counterintuitive choice. Tommy Smothers plays a Senator, and Sharon Stone, who seems as surprised as everyone else that she's in a Scorsese film, plays casino owner De Niro's wife. It's a Mob film, but everyone behaved offscreen. "In 35 years of working Vegas, I've never gambled," says Rickles. "I wouldn't even know how to play a card game." Some Vegas face. READ MY LIPS: GLUB GLUB...
...history." The pope has taken an increasingly hard line towards organized crime since he stunned Italians two years ago by denouncing the Mafia while on a visit to Sicily. Although past pontiffs have made general denunciations of violence, the current pope has been the first to single out the Mob, saysTIME's Richard Ostling. "John Paul is not one to be intimidated. He beat the Communist leaders in Poland. He's denounced the IRA in Ireland, rebuked leaders for human rights violations in places like Brazil, and chastised the Supreme Court on abortion while just a few blocks down...