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...reason for the roundup was unique. Low-level "soldiers" have occasionally broken with the Mafia and decided to work with the authorities. But for the first time in years, a high-level Mafioso had decided to cooperate. Tommaso Buscetta, 56, known as "the boss of two worlds" for his extensive operations in Italy and Brazil, has spent the past two months singing to Italian and U.S. authorities. His song, like a good ballad, had told quite a tale. Buscetta, who is being kept under close guard in a secluded villa on the outskirts of Rome, had not only reportedly fingered...
...probe that culminated in last week's roundup originated nearly a decade ago when the Federal Bureau of Investigation began looking into the activities of the New York Mafia "family" of Joseph Bonanno. The inquiry shed light on a faction headed by Salvatore Catalano, a Queens, N.Y., baker and entrepreneur who seemed to be doing more than selling pizza at his Al Dente pizza parlor. It gathered momentum when investigators obtained evidence that couriers for Catalano's group were transferring enormous amounts of cash through investment houses and banks in New York, Italy and Switzerland...
Hardest hit was an area near the town of Roundup (pop. 2,119) in southeastern Montana, where 37 homes were destroyed by a blaze that began in the arid Bull Mountains, sending up columns of smoke that drifted into Billings, 30 miles to the south. "It sounded like a jet engine coming through," said Dana Lynam, 34, after a wall of flames attacked her house and melted nearby mobile homes and autos in minutes. Lynam and some 500 others throughout the state were evacuated in time to escape the flames...
...press wondered why the U.S. Government declined to do what the Kremlin would not hesitate to do: simply dispatch the pesky protesters to some remote place for the duration of the Games. Indeed, many foreigners do not quite understand that U.S. civil liberties protections would rule out such a roundup of trouble makers. Soviet editorialists suggested an untoward affinity, even close links, between the L.A. protesters and the U.S. "ruling circles." Last week the Reagan Administration emphatically denied any affiliation. Balsiger had dispatched several letters and Mailgrams to White House Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver last winter, urging that...
...Your roundup of proposed ways of making the federal tax structure fairer and more productive, "Tax Ideas from Flat to VAT," is incomplete. The House Ways and Means Committee has before it my progressive consumption-tax proposal (H.R. 4442). The consumption tax would drastically reduce the number of exclusions, deductions and credits that now make the Internal Revenue Code a cabala for tax lawyers and C.P.A.s. It would allow the deduction of all savings and investments, on the theory that people should be taxed on what they take out of the national economy by way of consumption...