Word: scelba
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Dates: during 1947-1947
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Interior Minister Mario Scelba (Christian Democrat) reported to his fellow assemblymen that, so far as the police could determine, the Sicilian shooting was nonpolitical. The valley in which it occurred was notoriously infested by bandits. Sicilian Communist Deputy Girolamo Licausi disagreed. He charged that the Maffia (Sicily's ancient, bloody secret society) had perpetrated the attack, in cahoots with monarchists and the rightist Uomo Qualunque Party...