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...Carabinieri General Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa, the appointed prefect of Palermo, who had arrived in May to spearhead the government's efforts to clean up the Sicilian Mafia. The day before, Dalla Chiesa, 62, and his bride of less than two months, Emanuela Setti Carraro, 32, were slain in downtown Palermo during an ambush by presumed Mafia hitmen...
...self-preservation, it is Roberta--the social pariah--who is the most consistent source of spirit when danger arises. Roberta also plays "Sir Scum"; she hurdles shrubbery with Garp in a comic pursuit of reckless drivers, outpacing and protecting her friend. In the eerie feminist funeral for Garp's slain mother, where the protagonist must attend in drag, Roberta runs interference for Garp when he is unmasked. Roberta's is the first shoulder upon which everyone cries...
...America in Search of Itself, White repeatedly attacks the Great Society envisioned by Kennedy and realized by his sucessor as a monument to the slain president. White derides those social entitlement programs for producing the inflation and factionalism to which he attributes Ronald Reagan's 1980 triumph. White once celebrated that a poor Jewish boy like himself could rise to become America's premier author on presidential politics. Now he turns on federal programs designed to give today's needy the opportunities he took advantage of. Worst of all, he refuses to acknowledge that he himself has switched from persuasive...
...Department of Justice have long felt certain that they know who killed former Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa in 1975, as well as why he was slain. But they have never been able to collect enough evidence that would stand up in court. Nonetheless, the Justice Department last week permitted one of its informers, a self-confessed Mafia hitman, to present his version of the motive for Hoffa's murder. Testifying behind a screen that obscured his features, the man, who now calls himself Charles Allen, told a Senate subcommittee investigating labor racketeering that Hoffa was killed so that...
...body of a slain witness found stuffed into a car trunk. More previously suppressed FBI reports uncovered. Senatorial demands for his resignation. All in all, it was another rough week for Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan, who was vacationing, but probably not relaxing, in Europe...