Word: provinciale
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As Buscetta explained it, the second tier of the pyramid is made up of provincial commissions throughout Sicily. These, he said, play a mediating and coordinating role among the families. The Palermo commission used to be the most important, Buscetta went on, but in recent years, the Corleone commission has...
At the top of the pyramid is the so-called cupola, or commission of ten. Headed by the chief of the Palermo provincial council, the cupola is the body that settles jurisdictional conflicts and attempts to coordinate all activities outside Sicily. Dominated by the more powerful of the clans, the...
In the provincial capital of St. John's, the Pope issued a firm appeal for publicly funded religious education. (In Canada, that is a less inflammatory issue than in the U.S., since many provinces already fund some, if not all, Roman Catholic schools.) In Toronto, John Paul told a...
Quebec has often struck outsiders as a byword for radicals and recalcitrance. The French-speaking province sends its own delegates abroad and calls its legislature the National Assembly. In 1970 a lunatic fringe agitating for Quebec's secession from Canada murdered a Cabinet minister, kidnaped a British diplomat, and...
Capitalizing on this impulse, Provincial Premier René Lévesque, 62, and his Parti Québécois have always taken separatism as their driving ambition and rallying cry. The party stormed into power in 1976, as teachers, intellectuals and unionists−drawn from among the 5 million...