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When a 176-lb. remote-controlled bomb obliterated anti-Mafia prosecutor Paolo Borsellino and five police bodyguards last week, no one could miss the message: the Mob would kill anyone, anywhere, in its campaign of intimidation. The brave efforts of a handful of Sicilian judges and prosecutors like Borsellino and Giovanni Falcone, assassinated in a similar blast in May, had won only feeble support from Rome. Nonetheless, the courts managed to put more than 400 suspected mobsters on trial and convict the vast majority of them. But now the Mafia has challenged the prosecutors to back off, and its bloody...
...wondered how many deaths would be enough to prod the national government into effective action against the criminals it has long tolerated. A week before his death, Borsellino told friends, "The tnt for me has already arrived in Palermo." With estimated annual profits of $20 billion at stake, the Mob had decided that he knew too much about its inner workings to live...
Only now is Italy beginning to acquire some of these tools. The strong-arm tactics of the Fascists, who disregarded constitutional rights and democratic principles to jail suspected mobsters, succeeded in quashing the Mob for a time. But memories of that dictatorship left Italy with a postwar constitution designed to prevent strong government. After Falcone's death in May, Rome issued decrees to punish Mob suspects who refuse to cooperate and gave police expanded powers to make arrests. Last week the Senate converted some of those into law. Borsellino's murder has stirred calls for martial law and a return...
...based on the anticipated cost of police protection. The permit fee was imposed after a series of costly civil rights marches. Said Blackmun, again ! writing for the majority: "Speech cannot be financially burdened, any more than it can be punished or banned, simply because it might offend a hostile mob." Still to come before the end of the term: 14 decisions, involving such major issues as abortion, prayer in the schools and cigarette-industry liability...
...effort greater than even Martin Scorsese can muster. Vittorio Amuso, head of the New York City-based Lucchese crime family, was convicted last week on 54 counts of murder and racketeering. Two days later, a federal judge in Boston sentenced Raymond Patriarca, former head of the eponymous New England Mob ring, to an eight-year prison term. But the grief doesn't end there. Scheduled for sentencing this week is glamour don John Gotti...