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...wondered: Do farmers talk about such things before they ride their tractors down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington to complain that government cutbacks make it impossible for them to take their vacations in the Caribbean (or so our president says)? Would cowboys ever neglect a shootout at the O.K. Corral in order to debate the merits of seeing their reflection in lemon-scented, smoothly-polished table tops...
According to authorities, the Brotherhood of Silence preaches the violent overthrow of the Government and has links to other white-supremacist organizations. In addition to the two men arrested last week, five others are in jail awaiting trial and one was killed in a shootout with police, prompting U.S. Attorney Joseph Russoniello to say that the Brotherhood "seems to have been successfully neutered at this time." Yet two others are believed to be at large, and only a fraction of the money stolen has been recovered...
When FBI agents arrested an armed-robbery suspect after a shootout in a Portland, Ore., motel last month, they got a bigger break than they realized at the time. Last week FBI ballistics experts confirmed that among the weapons found in Suspect Gary Lee Yarbrough's home in Sandpoint, Idaho, was the 45-cal. mac-10 submachine pistol used last June to murder Alan Berg, a combative and controversial Denver radio talk-show host. Yarbrough denied the killing, insisting that he was given the weapon after the shooting. At week's end he had not been charged...
...farmer and his 18-year-old son decided to get even with a small-town bank that had foreclosed on their land. The father and son lured two bankers to the farm and then shot them to death. One farmer in Nebraska was killed last month in a shootout with police who were serving him papers for a bank trying to collect on a loan...
Unlike a spaghetti western, The Sicilian has no one-on-one shootout under a hot sun. Instead, Don Croce and Guiliano are locked in an elaborate melodrama of betrayals within betrayals. Puzo too demonstrates sly moves. His florid descriptions and graphic action scenes guarantee bug-eyed attention while he plants a sardonic fatalism in the heart of his book. One of the rarest commodities in his Sicily is truth ("A source of power, a lever of control, why should anyone give it away?"), while revenge is one of the highest virtues ("On this Catholic island, statues of a weeping Jesus...