Word: autostrada
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...fought back with bombs that killed Italy's top two prosecutors, Arlacchi helped create a program to arrest hundreds of top Mafiosi and imprison them on a remote island off the coast. They failed in an attempt to kill him with a bomb planted in a tollbooth on the autostrada. These days when Arlacchi cruises in the Mediterranean on his 40-ft. sailboat, the Italian navy often sends a cutter as an escort...
...bandits in the Italian capital still lift bags from foreign shoulders along the Via Nazionale, the petty-crime rate has actually dropped slightly, owing to increased police vigilance. One golden * oldie that still works: thieves slightly puncture a rental car's tire, and when a flat develops on the Autostrada del Sole, they pull alongside, offering to help change the tire. Before a victim can say grazie, his luggage is out of the trunk and speeding down the road. Bolder thieves on the outskirts of Seville, Spain, smash the car windows of cathedral-bound sightseers stopped at traffic lights...
...welcoming embrace of a bucket seat. The moment for which he has spent upwards of $40,000 and waited more than a year has arrived. He switches on the ignition. The engine responds with a distinctive, deep-throated growl. Paradise! Soon the new owner is flashing along the autostrada at an easy 100 m.p.h...
Sacks of Lire. Then, carefully following the kidnapers' instructions, Chase, in a rented car, headed south on the autostrada toward Naples. Just after passing Lagonegro, south of Naples, members of the gang pulled up alongside in a Citroën and pelted Chase's car with pebbles while the men inside rubbed their fingers together as a signal for money. Chase got the message and pulled over to the side. While he was handing over the sacks of lire, a car driven by a Rome detective with a pretty blonde policewoman at his side halted near by. Pretending...
Truck Driver Antonio Tedesco was heading toward Salerno on the Italian autostrada shortly before dawn. Suddenly in the driving rain he saw a lone figure wildly waving his arms by the side of the road. Tedesco pulled to a stop, and the young man, weeping and drenched to the skin, told him: "I am a kidnaping captive. I need to get to a telephone to call my mother in Rome...