Word: italianized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mafia will be crushed," vows Rudolph Giuliani, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, who has been leading the major anti-Mafia crusade and who takes personal affront at the damage done by the Mob to the image of his fellow law-abiding Italian Americans. Declares G. Robert Blakey, a Notre Dame Law School professor who drafted the 1970 RICO law now being used so effectively against organized crime: "It's the twilight of the Mob. It's not dark yet for them, but the sun is going down." Insists John L. Hogan, chief...
...myself that this (trial) is the end of the Mafia," says Palermo Prosecutor Giusto Sciacchitano. "It wasn't born yesterday, and it may not end with this. You can't destroy the Mafia with just one trial." Nonetheless, Italian and U.S. authorities are optimistic that the Palermo trial will at least choke back some of the Syndicate's activities. "The New York and Sicilian trials are two sides of the same coin," says Sciacchitano. "We have had a continual swapping of help and information. We are prosecuting the same organization...
...stroll down 101st Avenue in Ozone Park, Queens, on her way to Our Lady of Wisdom Academy. Ozone Park, then as now, was a neighborhood of two-story row houses with small, well-tended yards, awnings over the windows and crucifixes above the doors. Most of its residents were Italian and middle class. She would pass mom-and-pop stores, funeral parlors, and butcher shops that displayed an array of Italian sausages in the window. On her right, she often glanced at an inconspicuous red brick building known, oddly enough, as the Bergen Hunt and Fish Club. It caught...
Whether espousing church doctrine or schussing down a snowy slope, John Paul II has always enjoyed lofty perspectives. Last week the high-minded Pope was in his element during a 24-hour visit to the mountainous northern Italian region of Val d'Aosta. No one wanted to risk a papal stumble, of course. So he was helicoptered on a sightseeing tour of the area around Mont Blanc, Europe's tallest peak (elevation 15,771 ft.), and troops checked every possible loose rock at the places where he was to set down. The Pope nonetheless did his best...
Their song complete, the soldiers march off to the front, dressed in beige uniforms and Italian bush hats, with ostrich plumes sticking from the muzzles of their rifles to keep out the swirling dust...