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...youth joblessness over 60% and the ubiquity of the Camorra stand in the way of a permanent comeback. "Naples gets remembered and forgotten as people see fit," Pisani says. "This Mob war is now endemic to Naples." The evidence is everywhere. On a recent police patrol, Naples commander Stefano Valletta pointed out scenes of violence: a double homicide in the parking lot of a local housing project, the slaying of a street thug outside a low-rise apartment complex, and just down the road, three corpses wrapped in cellophane inside a car - "left there like presents," says Valletta. When...
...Earth-friendly prefix 37. Wile E. Coyote's supply company 41. Lipton competitor 44. Divining device 45. Judge who's no friend of 4-Across 48. Syrian Foreign Minister __, who distanced himself from the idea of sending troops to south Lebanon 50. Hurting 51. Hour on some sundials 52. Valletta is its capital 53. Photographic image, for short...
...Porto Ercole, then a malarial Spanish enclave on the coast north of Rome. The last four years of his life were one long paranoiac flight from police and assassins; on the run, working under pressure, he left magnificently realized, death-haunted altarpieces in Mediterranean seaports from Naples to Valletta to Palermo. He killed one man with a dagger in the groin during a ball game in Rome in 1606, and wounded several others, including a guard at Castel Sant'Angelo and a waiter whose face he cut open in a squabble about artichokes. He was sued for libel in Rome...
MALTA. The offbeat Mediterranean island is soaked in history from ancient times to its heroic stand in World War II. From the warm yellow limestone buildings of Valletta to its deepwater bays and rocky coves, the 95-sq.-mi. island was filled with baroque buildings by the martial-monastic Knights of St. John, who ruled it for 268 years. The British left no legacy of haute cuisine, but some restaurants serve local dishes and good fish. Seaside hotels charge from $45 to $60 a day, double occupancy; each has its own tennis courts, pool and beach. At family hotels...
...chaos of facts and fantasies suddenly perceives a pattern to it all, and what first appeared as the incoherent, the arbitrary and the meaningless, is transformed into the possibly intentional. So Herbert Stencil in V. chases around the world and backward in history to find what, if anything, Vera, Valletta, Vheissu and Vogelsang have in common. And Oedipa Maas, in The Crying of Lot 49, drives up and down the Californian coast exploring the remains of an underground postal system that has survived silently for centuries. But Stencil, Maas and Slothrop can never confirm their conspiracies, and what is more...