Word: nostras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Godfather and Peter Maas's The Valachi Papers). Organized crime is no longer quite the mystery that it was. It is a vast, sprawling underground domain impossible to trace fully; but there is no longer any doubt that its most important part, its very nucleus, is La Cosa Nostra (LCN), otherwise known as the Mafia...
Nobody will listen. Nobody will believe. You know what I mean? This Cosa Nostra, it's like a second government...
...outside was sure of what it was. Yet, almost unnoticed, it exerted a profound impact on American life. It still does. Small wonder that Valachi, the thug-turned-informer, doubted that anybody would believe or care when he talked about an organization called La Cosa Nostra...
...even the Cosa Nostra hoods have worries. In 1965, DeCavalcante forbade the killing of a Negro construction worker who assaulted a Marioso's son with a shovel during a fight. The Negro was a Black Muslim, and DeCavalcante feared a Muslim-Mafia war. Hoods also become disenchanted. Discussing one doublecross in 1964, DeCavalcante complained to an underling, Frank Mamri: "Sometimes, Frank, the more things you see, the more disillusioned you become. You know, honesty, honorability -all those things...
...bootlegger's girl friend. Before commutation, Licavoli was not eligible for parole; Ohio law forbids it in the case of a life sentence for first-degree murder. Now, however, the pa role board can vote to free him at any time. Licavoli has relatives who are Cosa Nostra powers in Michigan, Ohio and Arizona. If released, he would live in a Grosse Pointe, Mich., house until now occupied by an in-law who is still in the rackets...