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...votes will be largely progressive. Moderates and conservatives predominate in the important delegations from Argentina, Venezuela, Peru and Mexico. The best-known liberation theologian, Peru's Father Gustavo Gutiérrez, will be on hand as adviser to Ecuador's "Red Bishop," Leonidas Proaño Villalba. But El Salvador's Archbishop Romero, a hero to the poor, was not elected by his conservative colleagues and will attend only as a member of a papal commission. The bishops of impoverished Guatemala appointed the head of the Helena Rubinstein branch as one of the non-episcopal delegates, which...
...July 15, 1943, a U.S. fighter plane flying a yellow banner emblazoned with a black "L" dropped a small nylon bag in the plaza of Villalba, Sicily. The bag was addressed to "Uncle Calo"-Calogero Vizzini, the millionaire chief of Italy's Mafia. In the bag was a gold foulard handkerchief belonging "to Gangster Lucky Luciano-a sign that Lucky wanted his old pals to play paisan to the Yanks. Four days later, when three U.S. tanks rolled into town, Vizzini climbed into one of them, clattered off to direct a joint Mafia-Allied operation, which pincered German...
This is just one of the titillating tales in the most authoritative and complete history of the Mafia that has yet been published. Journalist Pantaleone, 54, Italy's leading expert on the Mafia, used to live in Villalba, in 1943 saw the U.S. plane and met the incoming U.S. tanks. He drew on personal experience as well as parliamentary and court records to write a flamboyant tale of terror, banditry and blood...
...Betancourt's instructions, Arcaya hung around San José and Panama for a week playing golf, while back home Betancourt ironed out relationships with URD Boss Jovito Villalba. When Arcaya gingerly returned to Caracas last week, 600 Fidelistas welcomed him at the airport-and Betancourt fired him. A government split was averted only because URD agreed to sacrifice Arcaya...
There he became a leader of what he calls the "first exclusively liberal movement" in the history of Venezuela-"the Boys of '28." Some of the other "boys": Jóvito Villalba, now head of the leftist Republican Democratic Union (U.R.D.), second strongest (after Betancourt's A.D.) party in Venezuela; Gustavo Machado, now a boss of the Venezuelan Communist Party. Student Betancourt quickly saw the difference between the rule of law described in his textbooks and the dictatorial lawlessness of Venezuela...