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Salvatore Giuliano is probably the world's most eminent bandit, and certainly the most photogenic (see cut). In the rugged, wind-torn Montelepre zone that stretches behind Sicily's lush Palermo plain, Giuliano has carved out his realm. In six years, the police say, he and his band have killed more than 200 people, kidnaped scores of wealthy latifondisti (rich landowners) and made an estimated $2,000,000 in ransom. Time & again, the Italian government has sent entire companies of carabinieri to capture him. Each time the hills above Montelepre and the undernourished, goatskin-gaitered Montelepre peasants have...
Last May 17,000 police made an exhaustive beat of Giuliano's mountain hideout. He slipped through the net (rumor said by joining a bicycle race that was passing through the area) and took a lonesome vacation in the mountain villages on the lower slopes, near Palermo. Police had already arrested his sisters Mariannina and Giuseppina; his mother is locked up on charges of extortion. The dragnet picked up several of his aides...
...furtive foundation 2^ years ago has managed to make itself a minor political force in Italy. In last year's elections, M.S.I, polled half a million votes (out of more than 26 million); it is the largest political group at the universities of Pisa, Perugia, Naples and Palermo. M.S.I, is chiefly a refuge for discontented white-collar workers and disenchanted youths...
Deduction. In Palermo, Sicily, Giovanni Villa, who has spent four years trying to get himself declared officially alive, complained that the only person convinced thus far is the tax collector...
Lucky Luciano, deported super-pimp of Manhattan, was having cop trouble again. Palermo (Sicily) police picked him up and quizzed him for three days about his Maffia connections. Then they let him go again till next time...