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...Tuesday installment of Bloom County, Berke Breathed makes it clear that Steve Dalla's alter-ego "fairy" is not a symbol of homosexuality but is instead a sort of conscience that is trying to cure Steve of his sexist "macho" complex. Only Dallas (and, it would appear, the Crimson senior executive board) equates sensitivity with homosexuality, and the ignorance he displays both in making this mental association and in disapproving of both kinds of behavior is precisely what makes Monday's installment (the one which The Crimson censored) funny...
Eager to assert the authority as duce of law enforcement, the prefect needlessly put his own life on the line. During the Red Brigade campaign. Dalla Chiesa kept on the move all the time, never sleeping in the same place for more than one night: But in Palermo, the routines changed drastically; in order to be among the townspeople, to inspire confidence and a sense of civic security, Dalla Chiesa led a highly visible and regular lifestyle. He could be seen many an afternoon, cheat out, in lightly colored tailored suit and shades boldly swaggering down the streets of Palermo...
...WANTED Dalla Chiesa dead, and for good reason. Sicily has become the operational headquarters for the booming international drug traffic racket, from the poppy fields of West Asia to the streets of New York. There's more than just profits in the Mafia business, however, at times the gangsters have been known to dominate local justices in peasant areas. Many believe the Mafia may even control the votes of up to 30 parliamentary deputies. With that much at stake, it is hardly surprising that since 1981,222 people have been identified as victims of organized crime executions in Palermo alone...
...Dalla Chiesa came in the name of peace and order, with a formidable reputation for getting his way. The General had plans to strike hard and reach high--straight to the top, the untouchable dons of the Families. Other Italian officials had tried this sort of thing before: Cesare Terranova, a local magistrate, killed in 1970, Pio La Torre, Secretary of the Communist Party, dispatched in 1980, and the Procurator of the Republic, Gaetano Costa, slain in the same year. Dalla Chiesa stood next in the line of fire, as the only symbolic figure with the guts and skills...
That goal remains distant. The breash carabinieri general himself, shortly after accepting his post as prefect, admitted: "I don't speak of beating [the Mafia], only of containing them." After Dalla Chiesa's assassination, and the flouting of the state's authority that came with it, even containment seems impossible. Last weekend, for example, four new names, including that of a 15-year old boy, were added to the endless list of victims in Palermo's age-old battle for survival against those gangsters who, in John Paul's words, "have spilled so much blood, [and] caused so many dead...