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...Sunday edition alone used to command. Since 1954 four papers have been forced to shut down, including Florence's // Nuovo Corriere, which gave up one month ago. Only L'Unita, Rome's // Paese and Paese Sera and Sicily's L'Ora di Palermo survive. Even they have lost from 30% to 45% of their circulation, and L'Unita is considering folding two of its four main regional editions, leaving those in Rome and Milan...
...district of Palermo known as Abbot's Villa, few citizens were more warmly respected than heavy-jawed Antonino Cottone. A onetime butcher who prospered mightily during the U.S. occupation of Sicily, Nino Cottone was respected partly for his wealth and partly for his excellent connections in the Demo-Christian Party. But the foundation of Nino's respectability was the fact that he was boss of the "Mafia of the Gardens"-the section of the world-famous Sicilian criminal syndicate that "protects" Palermo's fruit marketmen and citrus growers...
Like any threatened monopoly, the Mafia has fought back. Last June two Crime Incers who had apparently defied Nino Cottone's rule of the fruit market were rubbed out in the heart of Crime Inc. territory, a Palermo suburb called Torrelunga. And when Nino was killed most of Palermo expected that the next move would be a revenge murder by the Mafia...
Among the first to turn up at the scene of Galatolo's murder was the dead man's weeping son. Suspiciously the police asked how he had learned about the crime so quickly. Said the boy contemptuously: "Why, the whole of Palermo knows Angelo Galatolo is dead, shot while driving a borrowed donkey cart. It's only the police who are surprised...
...Bell. Last week, after almost two months in prison, Danilo Dolci was dragged, in chains, into the large hall of Palermo's Lo Steri to stand trial for his illicit road-repairing...