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...drinking absinthe, all seem to me creatures from another world." In fact, his stay there began the general pattern of migration southward that would be as obligatory for early modern French artists-Signac to Saint-Tropez, Matisse to Nice, Derain to Collioure-as a stint among the marbles of Rome had been to their 18th century forebears. Provence presented itself as a museum of the prototypes of strong sensation: blazing light, red earth, blue sea, mauve twilight, the flake of gold buried in the black depths of the cypress; archaic tastes of wine and olive, ancient smells of dust, goat...
...worlds" for his extensive operations in Italy and Brazil, has spent the past two months singing to Italian and U.S. authorities. His song, like a good ballad, had told quite a tale. Buscetta, who is being kept under close guard in a secluded villa on the outskirts of Rome, had not only reportedly fingered the gunmen responsible for more than 100 murders, including that of Italy's leading Mafia fighter, but documented the existence of a "Sicilian connection" that operated outside established American Mafia organizations to supply much of the heroin that entered...
...Mafia. It outraged the outspoken Archbishop of Palermo, Salvatore Cardinal Pappalardo, who was known to have sympathized with the general's efforts to eradicate the Mafia. The churchman blamed the general's death on the government's failure to act. "While our city is racked, Rome is idle," said the primate at Dalla Chiesa's funeral. "Poor Palermo...
...thin, gray-haired man flew from New York City aboard TWA Flight 842 in the custody of U.S. marshals, who turned him over to armed Italian police at Milan's Malpensa Airport. Then he was flown to Rome and whisked to Rebibbia prison, where he now occupies a cell recently vacated by Ali Agca, the Turkish terrorist who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981. With such swift efficiency, the U.S. last week shipped Michele Sindona, 64, home on the day that a new extradition treaty with Italy went into effect...
...doctors said the former champion had been suffering from a Parkinson's-like syndrome since 1981, and they agreed with Ali that there might be a connection between his condition and his career, which began when he won an Olympic gold medal in Rome...