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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...
Sitting beside Betancourt, the heads of the other coalition parties, Jóvito Villalba of the Democratic Republican Union (U.R.D.) and Rafael Caldera of the Social Christian COPEI, reaffirmed the pact with such emphasis that they unconsciously revealed the strains within it. Most of the strains come from the division among the parties of Cabinet posts, state governorships and autonomous state institutes, e.g., social security. Villalba's U.R.D., for example, complained loudly that the A.D. had taken the lion's share and that the U.R.D. deserved the governorship of the federal district, including Caracas, because in the election...
...five children born to Rocco Colavito, a sturdy, hard-working iceman, and Angelina Spodafino. Rocco and Angelina came separately to the U.S. in the early '20s from Bari, Italy, met and married in New York City. Rocky's boyhood heroes were his big brothers, Dominick and Vito, who taught him to throw and hit on the paved playing field of Public School...
...arrested. I kicked my habit cold turkey. After waiting three months for trial, I was physically shed of my habit before trial (mentally shed is questionable yet). I was arrested (for possession) with 17½ grms. of heroin, tried in federal court, and sentenced to 40 years in prison. Vito Genovese, who possibly oversaw the distribution of 17½ Ibs. of heroin, who was only commercially interested, when tried in April received 15 years. (Harsher penalties only get the applause of the "big city boys" who distribute narcotics, because the stiffer the penalty the higher the price...
...number somewhere between 60,000 and 300,000, dispensing of narcotics is under such strict federal regulation that (except for thefts from hospitals and doctors) practically no legitimate drugs get to the addicts. But tons of narcotics are smuggled in, mostly from Italy, much by such Mafia leaders as Vito Genovese. The Treasury Department's 420-man Bureau of Narcotics cannot check the flood...