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...police retaliated with an all-out campaign against the racketeers. Special patrols aided by fire brigades swooped on one bicho headquarters, arrested Millionaire Banker Rafaele Palermo and 35 henchmen. Most Brazilians seemed unimpressed. One skeptical bystander, watching as Palermo and his assistants were hustled into the patrol wagon, muttered: "Bitten by the dogs they've been feeding. That reminds me: o cāo [the dog] has not turned up for a long time." Then, like many another citizen, he hurried off to place...
...being held for helping her son). Roaming the countryside, he showed the pictures to every peasant, carter and fisherman he met, hoping one would pass the word along. A month passed, with nary a nibble. Late one night, as Meldolesi and Reporter Jacopo Rizza wandered into the hills near Palermo, three masked gunmen seized the photographs, led the pair to an abandoned stable. Next morning, the door flew open and in strode Giuliano...
Glorified Crime. The Giuliano issue of Oggi was a swift sellout (1,200,000 copies). It had barely hit the streets when the conservative // Tempo accused its rival of "basically indecent" conduct in consorting with a bandit. Embarrassed Minister of Interior Mario Scelba fired Palermo's chief of police, ordered the Mi-Jan police to arrest Meldolesi, Rizza and Editor Rusconi. The charge: "aiding and abetting banditry and glorifying crime...
...Italian politics are serious. Guiliano, the Sicilian baudit, still maintains a sovereign state around Palermo against all efforts of the local constabulary. He is constantly in the news: at one point when the police commissioner put up a large reward for Guiliano's capture, Guiliano retorted by putting up a reward for the capture of the police commissioner. He has also offered to cedo Sicily to the U. S., but so far Washington hasn't taken...
Giuliano's mother, Maria, is a quarrelsome old woman who has long been in jail for helping him. "Giuliano," said a Palermo street vendor, "is trying to survive only so that he will not give his mother pain and perhaps cause her death by news of his death...