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...agent posing as a street hot-dog vendor in a Mafia neighborhood in New York City discovered which public telephone was being used by gangsters to call sources in Sicily about heroin shipments. The phone was quickly tapped, and the evidence it provided has been used in the ongoing "pizza connection" heroin trial against U.S. and Sicilian mobsters...
Some of the pentiti brought before the bench in Palermo have been impressive. Tommaso (Don Masino) Buscetta was known as the "Boss of Two Worlds" because he used to control extensive operations in both Italy and Brazil. Buscetta, who testified in New York's "pizza connection" trial about heroin smuggling between U.S. and Sicilian mobsters, provided new evidence about the operations of the Mafia's ruling Commission. A second pentito, the mid-level Mob executive Salvatore (Toto) Contorno, made detailed accusations against defendants based on his firsthand knowledge of the Mafia's internecine warfare over the drug market...
...company ended up munching on delivery-truck pizza after protesters forced the cancellation of the gala...
After Thursday night's 350th dinner was cancelled because of a blockade by divestment activists, the University was left with full meals for 600 on their hands. While President Derek C. Bok and his colleagues dined on pizza Thursday night, Currier and Chives Caterers decided to donate the food to Shelter, Inc. to feed the homeless...
...secondlargest U.S. soft- drink manufacturer (1985 sales: $8.1 billion) announced last week that it had agreed to acquire Kentucky Fried Chicken, now owned by RJR Nabisco, for about $850 million. If the deal goes through, the purchase of the 6,500 KFC restaurants will give PepsiCo, which already owns Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, some 14,000 fast-food outlets, more than any other chain. McDonald's, with 9,000 stores, is the current leader...