Word: sicilian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sicily there is no bloodier bandit than Salvatore Giuliano. A swart, 25-year-old ex-black marketeer, who began his career with the killing of a customs officer, Salvatore has totted up a spine-chilling record of robbery, blackmail, murder and kidnaping. Yet to many a Sicilian, Giuliano is a hero as revered as Robin Hood. Sicilian police have long since promised not to bother him provided that he kills no policemen. On Palermo's walls, signs calling for "Giuliano for President" are common sights...
...years of agile living, Sicilian Monarchist Count Ernesto Perrier has fought nine duels-the last two with rival Monarchist Prince Gianfranco Alliata de Montereale. Not long ago Swordsman Perrier pinked Montereale over a disagreement about the Monarchist Party platform. Four months later they were at it again. Again Perrier won. This time there was no likelihood of another duel. The fact that dueling was against the law mattered little. It was simply too expensive...
Through a Sicilian mountain valley 400 workers and peasants were making their way to a May Day celebration. They carried red flags and sang Communist songs. At a crossroad shots rang out. According to the most coherent accounts, they were fired from machine guns by men on horseback. Ten peasants (including one woman) were killed, more than 30 injured. Next day, in the Italian Constituent Assembly, the battle was resumed...
Interior Minister Mario Scelba (Christian Democrat) reported to his fellow assemblymen that, so far as the police could determine, the Sicilian shooting was nonpolitical. The valley in which it occurred was notoriously infested by bandits. Sicilian Communist Deputy Girolamo Licausi disagreed. He charged that the Maffia (Sicily's ancient, bloody secret society) had perpetrated the attack, in cahoots with monarchists and the rightist Uomo Qualunque Party...
...Communist-controlled General Confederation of Italian Labor called a general strike in protest against the Sicilian "massacre." In most cities, the strike lasted only a few hours. Nevertheless, it was a grim reminder that the Communists, through their control of Italy's trade unions, have the country's economic life by the throat. Before 50,000 workers at Rome's Basilica of Constantine, Communist Labor Leader Nazzareno Buschi cried: "The workers do not want civil war, but our enemies, and above all, the Government, must be warned...