Word: paola
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Only hours earlier, Pope John Paul II had issued one of his strongest condemnations ever of organized crime. Visiting the southern Italian village of Paola, he called upon listeners to break "the tragic chain of vendettas" and abandon the Mafia's code of silence, "which binds so many people in a type of squalid complicity dictated by fear...