Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...events leading to last week's charges began in 1976 when William Masselli, a soldier in the Genovese Mafia family, seized control of a small construction firm that held subcontracts on large Schiavone projects. The firm was owned by Louis Nargi, who had made the mistake of borrowing some $350,000 from Masselli and from one of the mobster's associates, Louis Cirillo, now in prison on a narcotics conviction. When Nargi failed to repay the money on time, Masselli, who had no construction experience, appropriated Nargi's equipment, hired his workers and muscled the owner aside...
...series of conversations lasting through the summer and covering 3,000 pages, he offered a history of the Sicilian Mafia's operations going back, in some cases, to 1950. He volunteered details that authorities had long suspected but never been able to prove. Not since Joseph Valachi, a soldier in New York's Lucky Luciano family, spilled what he knew to a U.S. Senate committee in 1963 has anyone provided such a comprehensive picture of the Mafia and its operations. Said Judge Schiacchitano: "Buscetta has offered confirmation for many, many things that we had learned elsewhere but could...
...without once mentioning the Soviet invasion and occupation of that country. His theme was peace through negotiation, and to support it he cited two historical figures who had rarely before appeared in his pantheon of quotable heroes: St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus ("a Spanish soldier who gave up the ways of war for that path of love and peace"), and Mahatma Gandhi. The Indian apostle of nonviolence, Reagan recalled, had said, "If you approached people with trust and affection, you would have tenfold trust and thousandfold affection returned...
...condition myself . . I was never really a soldier. I was caught up in the army, a civilian putting in my service. When it was over, I had a longer view. It's anyone's universe. Anyone has as good a right to it as I have. Who am I to want to go out killing people...
Ever since French Novelist Prosper Mérimée locked a lustful Navarrese soldier and a lubricious Spanish gypsy in fatal embrace, Don José and his Carmen have danced their deadly Habanera through ligh art and mass culture. Although burdened with a sanitized libretto, Composer Georges Bizet transformed Mérimée's cautionary tale into a supercharged epic of erotic obsession that has become a fecund source of material for generations of movie directors. Cinematic treatments have run the gamut from Charlie Chaplin's burlesque Carmen (1916) to the soft-porn Carmen, Baby...