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...Italian immigrants, Panetta grew up in Monterey, California, where his parents owned and ran a small cafe that served Calabrian fare to Army troops at Fort Ord. Panetta attended the University of Santa Clara for his undergraduate and law degrees and afterward joined the Army, serving in the intelligence branch. He came to Washington in 1966 as an aide to a Republican Senator and, after the 1968 election, became Richard Nixon's chief civil rights officer at the old Health, Education and Welfare Department. When Panetta aggressively sought to coerce Southern school districts into complying with court-ordered busing plans...
...into Alunni's recent whereabouts shed some light on the sybaritic life-style that Europe's leftist outlaws can occasionally afford. Not long before his arrest in Milan, Alunni and his paramour, Maria Zoni, had spent two blissful weeks in a $700-a-month cottage in the Calabrian resort of Tropea...
What persuaded the late oil billionaire J. Paul Getty to pay $2.9 million in ransom for his kidnaped grandson Eugene Paul Getty II was the 17-year-old's right ear. His Calabrian kidnapers had cut it off and mailed it to a Rome newspaper with threats of further mutilations. Last week young Getty, now 21, was working in Southern California on documentary films and no longer self-conscious about that ear. A new ear of tissues taken from his own body is in process of being sculpted at Stanford University Medical Center...
Another arrested suspect was Vincenzo Mammoliti, 43, an olive-oil dealer from the Calabrian coastal town of Gioia Tauro, who reportedly spent 22 years in the U.S. and is said to be a member of a Mafia-like family of Calabrian criminals. His brother, Saverio Mammoliti, an escaped convict with a criminal record that includes armed robbery, vanished before the police sprang their trap. Of the eight men arrested, at least three were found with some of the marked ransom money. But police so far have refused to divulge how much of the ransom has been recovered...
...played between police, the kidnapers, and young Getty's mother, former Actress Gail Harris. Mrs. Harris was at first wary of cooperating with the police out of fear of jeopardizing her son's life. When the police secretly tapped her telephone, they heard a man with a Calabrian-Sicilian accent calling to negotiate the ransom for her son. The gang demanded $ 17 million but finally settled for $2,890,000. To deliver the money, Billionaire Getty, who lives in England, sent to Rome a tall, craggy-faced American, identified by Italian newspapers as Fletcher Chase...