Word: san
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...visitors were, in fact, American tourists-San Marinese émigrés who had left the tiny republic in the Apennines of northern Italy years ago to settle in New York, Detroit and Sandusky, Ohio. But they were in the right queue. With their families, 450 San Marinese had enthusiastically boarded jets holding tickets paid for by the republic's Christian Democratic Party. Their mission was to help the Christian Democrats, leaders of the coalition that has ruled the country since 1957, stave off a ballot-box challenge by San Marino's Communist Party...
Left-Wing Advantage. There was nothing illegal about it. San Marino allowed its émigrés to come back to vote long before the right was codified in its constitution in 1600. Nowadays that provision favors left-wing parties, which are able to bus in working-class San Marinese living in Italy, France and Germany. The Christian Democrats reduced this advantage in 1958 by enacting a law permitting émigrés living in the U.S. to vote by mail; that measure ensured the support of the many San Marinese who had grown relatively prosperous-and thus relatively conservative...
...something is. Hence the recent exposes of the Mafia, Senator Dodd, slaughterhouses, Abe Fortas, American automobiles, poverty funds misuse, hot dogs, drug companies, Pentagon spending, Senator Long, Medicare profiteering, Congressman Gallagher. And last week, the charge in Look magazine that Joseph L. Alioto, the dynamic and popular mayor of San Francisco, is involved with the Mafia...
Easily Used. The freelancers who wrote the story, Richard Carlson, 28, a reporter for San Francisco's KGO-TV, and Lance Brisson, 26, former staff writer for the Los Angeles Times, were described in the suit as "relatively young and essentially inexperienced." This is Carlson's sixth major investigative scoop. One of his first resulted in a prison sentence for a San Francisco official involved in the embezzlement of federal funds. Says Carlson about Alioto: "A politician can be used so easily if he messes around with people like these...
...San Francisco's two newspapers felt differently, putting up a strenuous defense of Alioto. The Chronicle rejected "this unfortunate piece of journalism as an imputation of guilt by association." The Examiner reprinted almost all of the mayor's lengthy denial and bannered an eight-column headline about an event of more than 50 years ago: ALIOTO'S UNCLE DEFIED MAFIA WAS SLAIN...