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...converted into heroin in secret laboratories controlled by Mafia dons with close family and business ties to their counterparts in the U.S. Almost all of Sicily's heroin-as much as three tons a year-is infiltrated into the U.S. by couriers on ostensibly legitimate flights, usually from Palermo to New York's Kennedy Airport, a route that police have dubbed the "Godfather Line." The profits follow the same flight plan back to Sicily. Police at a Palermo airport once seized two suitcases containing $497,000 in crisp U.S. bills before they could be delivered to a mysterious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A New and Deadly Menace | 10/6/1980 | See Source »

...drab villa in Trabia, a seaside resort 19 miles from Palermo, Sicilian police uncovered a virtual gold mine: the largest heroin laboratory yet found in Western Europe. Police estimated that the lab could produce up to 50 kg of heroin a day, worth $7.5 million on the New York wholesale market. The officers also arrested two French chemists, both veterans of the defunct Marseilles laboratories that once were a link in the famed French connection, and the lab's alleged boss, a suspected Mafioso, who was wearing a wig. As it was pulled off, he announced, "Eccomi qui" (Here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A New and Deadly Menace | 10/6/1980 | See Source »

Rose Claire Palermo...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CANDIDATES FOR CLASS MARSHAL | 11/28/1979 | See Source »

...consider myself to be not just a Radcliffe student, but a Harvard-Radcliffe student. I would like to represent both Harvard and Radcliffe," Palermo added...

Author: By Andrew S. Ting, | Title: Class Marshal Voting Delayed For Two Weeks | 11/9/1979 | See Source »

Horner will consider the changes suggested by Palermo and will discuss them with other Radcliffe students. Koivumaki said...

Author: By Andrew S. Ting, | Title: Class Marshal Voting Delayed For Two Weeks | 11/9/1979 | See Source »

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