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...legislature goes to pay the salaries of its 1,000 employees. Ninety-three of those are sergeants at arms, who have been routinely dispatched to pick up laundry, chauffeur wives and, in one case, to feed live mice regularly to a pet snake belonging to former Assembly Speaker Bob Moretti. The majority of the legislative staff, of course, is engaged in legitimate work. But critics question the propriety, let alone the need, of hiring 200 new aides this year. Most of the 78 additional senate staff members, according to President Pro Tempore David Roberti, were needed to help figure...
Also seized were Nadia Mantovani, 26, a friend of imprisoned Red Brigades Founder Renato Curcio, and Lauro Azzolini, 35, who had been sought in connection with the murder of the president of the Turin bar association last year. There were unconfirmed rumors that Mario Moretti, 36, the top suspect in the Moro assassination, was also in police custody. To speed proceedings, all nine will stand summary trial within two weeks on charges of possessing arms and explosives-a protective measure to ensure that the defendants are not released while authorities ponder more serious charges against them...
...told the bureau all about Big Tuna's vengeance, saying there had actually been six slayings. The other two, which police at first did not think fit the pattern, took place in February, when Vincent Moretti, 52, a Mob fence and loan collector, and a friend, Donald Renno, 31, were found stabbed to death in a car parked behind a tavern in suburban Stickney. Almost all of Moretti's ribs had been broken. According to police, Moretti was killed because he had not told Mob bosses when the gang asked him to fence the loot...
...impromptu debate before the press, Moretti cried: "What are you, the only holy man around? What do you have, a little statue of yourself you bow down to every night?" Privately Moretti joked: "If I had one wish, I'd want to meet every Democrat in this state between now and the primary. If I had a second wish, I'd want Jerry Brown to meet them...
...Moretti and most of California's leading politicians in both parties opposed the plan as unworkable. So did business and labor. "I want labor's support," said Brown, "but they're wrong on this one." In the era of Watergate, Brown's instincts were right. Placed on the primary-day ballot by an initiative movement, the plan was supported by 70% of the voters in June. Brown led the Democratic field with 38% of the vote while Moretti received only 17%, trailing even San Francisco's Mayor Joseph Alioto...