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DIED. Frank ("Three Fingers") Coppola, 82, multimillionaire Mafia capo who was linked to murder, prostitution, gambling and drugs; of a stroke; in Aprilia, near Rome. Once a partner of "Lucky" Luciano in Detroit, the Sicilian-born Mafioso was deported as an illegal alien in 1948. In Italy he became a don of international drug trafficking. Coppola fought his deportation from the U.S., insisting that he was actually a "nice guy." U.S. Senator John McClellan disagreed, however, saying: "Even though he only has three fingers, they are involved in everything...
Societies from ancient Rome to Weimar Germany have suffered the consequences of such runaway prices. That kind of inflation usually tears apart the very fabric of a nation. When its currency no longer has any meaning, a country often loses its sense of values. Saving and planning for the future seem foolish; speculators prosper. Says Henry Wallich, a governor of the Federal Reserve: "Inflation is like a country where nobody speaks the truth...
...resulting estimates: 137 million Soviets are irreligious, but an impressive 97 million remain Christian. There, as elsewhere, Barrett found masses of members known only to the churches. Worldwide there appear to be 70 million so-called crypto-Christians. Even the Vatican's count may be conservative. In Rome, though official church documents were impressive in their detail, one questionnaire on the number of baptisms in an African country was answered by the harried local bishop with the scrawl: "Deus scit" (God only knows...
DIED. John Patrick Cardinal Cody, 74, Archbishop of Chicago; apparently of a heart attack; in Chicago. The son of an immigrant St. Louis fireman, Cody spent eleven years in Rome, where he earned three doctorates. He returned to serve the church in St. Louis and Kansas City. As Archbishop of New Orleans he led black children into Catholic schools as pickets protested integration. In his 17 years in Chicago, he ruled rigidly and created controversy. A federal grand jury was investigating charges that he had diverted $1 million in church funds to enrich a longtime friend, Helen Dolan Wilson. Said...