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Thanks to the millions of dollars he invested there, Tucson, Ariz., was most fond of Joseph Bonanno. Joe, in turn, was crazy about Tucson. A resident since 1943, he once declared: "Tucson is my town, a beautiful and wonderful community." Lately, however, the relationship has gone bad-with a bang...
...twelve-man "Grand Council" of organized crime. Though he has been semiretired as an active hoodlum since 1964, he is now embroiled in what has come to be known as "the Bananas war" -a death struggle between rival gangs that reaches from Joe's Brooklyn turf to Tucson's tree-lined pleasances. Open hostilities in the battle to succeed Joe as head of the Bonanno family began with an ambush in January 1966 outside the home of Joe's uncle in Brooklyn, and mob-style executions have accounted for at least seven since then. During the past...
...liberal block, based in Maricopa County Phoenix) with about half the state's population) and Tucson (University of Arizona), hasn't yet formed a coalition with the large--still unmilitant-brown (Mexican-American) community, but that may soon change. With Barry Goldwater's victory in a November Senate contest all but assured, the conservative party apparatus, long nurtured by retiring Sen. Carl Hayden's patronage, will suffer a serious setback opening the way for a 1970 liberal coup...
WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). National Skydiving Championship, Tucson, Ariz.; Carting Championship, Vevey, Switzerland; International Surfing Championship, Makaha Beach, Hawaii...
...Tucson, Ariz...