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- <text id=92TT2687>
- <title>
- Nov. 30, 1992: Silence Is Not Golden
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Nov. 30, 1992 Windsor: A House Dividing
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK
- WORLD, Page 20
- Silence Is Not Golden
- </hdr><body>
- <p>Mafia turncoats are responsible for the latest bust of bosses
- </p>
- <p> It was the biggest roundup since 1984 and signaled an important
- new strategy after decades of fruitless efforts to outfight the
- Mafia conventionally. Using evidence supplied by the crime
- syndicate's own members, Italian police arrested 90 suspected
- members of the Sicilian Mob. Three members of Italy's
- Parliament and several small-town mayors were among those
- nabbed.
- </p>
- <p> The first and most famous Mafia turncoat, Tommaso
- Buscetta, was brought back to Italy from the U.S.,where he has
- lived since his testimony in the 1986-87 "maxi-trial" helped
- convict 338 mafiosi. Buscetta told the national Anti-Mafia
- Commission what many Italians have long suspected: that the Cosa
- Nostra controls many of the country's politicians. He claimed
- that the current campaign of arrests had decimated the Mafia and
- persuaded many to break the code of silence known as omerta.
- National police chief Vincenzo Parisi promised that squealers
- will get a new home -- outside Italy.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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