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Many felt that the beneficiary of this change would be volatile Bronx Congressman Mario Biaggi. However, the most decorated policeman in America locked horns in a tooth-and-nail battle with the baddest hombre of them all, the media, and came out looking like a rookie. For weeks, Biaggi kept insisting that he hadn't taken the Fifth Amendment in front of a grand jury. When the testimony was released and it showed that he had indeed taken not only the Fifth but entire Bill of Rights, his campaign machinery stopped functioning...
Following the maxim that when a guy is down you step on him. The New York Times immediately went to work on Biaggi. First they revealed that the Bronx District Attorney had uncovered some undisclosed "new evidence" in a shooting Biaggi committed 14 years ago when he was a policeman...
Following the policeman's death, Milan authorities launched a massive manhunt; some 60 neo-Fascist suspects were picked up and grilled. Trying desperately to exonerate the party from blame, M.S.I, leaders offered an $8,500 reward for the capture of the bomb throwers. Eventually, the party itself fingered the culprits: an unemployed la borer named Maurizio Murelli, 19, and Vittorio Loi, 22, the son of former Junior Welterweight Boxing Champion Duilio Loi. However, young Loi later told police that an M.S.I, bodyguard had assigned them to disrupt the rally...
...captured some Tupamaros and thus refuses to release their political prisoners in exchange for Santore. The Tupamaros decide that Santore, as most responsible, is to be executed. One of them, Este (Jean-Luc Bideau), explains the situation to Santore. They talk it through. Santore, thinking as a professional policeman, admits that if he were in charge, he would allow himself (as prisoner) to be killed. Este asks him, "Do you mean you're more valuable to them dead than alive?" He can only nod silently his assent. At that moment, even he realizes the barrenness of his political position...
...iron-hand control of the state into the city. Rose wanted to preserve Liberal influence at City Hall by making the next mayor beholden to him. Both Rockefeller and Rose wanted to stop the growing momentum of Congressman Mario Biaggi, a conservative Democrat who was also the most decorated policeman in New York history...