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report on mafia

Notarbartolo trial

Sant’Elia (nobleman)

Santapaola, Nitto (“the Hunter”)

Santino, Umberto

Saturnia,
SS (liner)

Scaglioni, Pietro

Scarface
(film)

Scarpato’s (restaurant; Coney Island)

Scarpinato, Roberto

Scelba, Mario

Schifani, Rosaria

Schifani, Vito

Sciascia, Leonardo

The Day of the Owl

Scopelliti, Antonio

Scorsese, Martin

Senate Special Committee to Investigate

Crime in Interstate Commerce (US)

Servadio, Gaia

“Sheets Committee” (antimafia organization)

Sicilcasa (building company)

Sicily: psyche and culture

cattle and grain trade

citrus trade

early history

emigration to US

Fasci (peasant movement)

poverty

sulphur industry

Post-WWI mayhem

post-WWII separatist movement

Siino, Filippo

Siino, Francesco

Sindona, Michele

Sing Sing (US prison)

Slavonia,
SS (liner)

Socialist Ideal, The
(news-sheet)

Socialist Party (Italy): political manuevering

and demise

Berlusconi link

mafia overtures

Sonnino, Sidney

Spadaro, Tommaso

Spampinato, Giovanni

Spanò (Sicilian restaurant)

Spatola, Alfonso

Spatola, Rosario

St Valentine’s Day massacre

Stella, Don Constantino

Stromboli
(film)

Sullivan, Tim (“Dry Dollar”)

supergrass
see
defectors

Tajani, Diego

Terranova, Cesare

Terranova, Ciro

terrorism, right-wing: “strategy of tension”

Times, The

tobacco trafficking

Torretta, Pietro

Trapani basketball club

Tribuna, La
(newspaper)

Truman, President Harry S.

Ucciardone (prison; Palermo)

United States of America

Chicago

Democratic Party

Detroit

Kansas City

Las Vegas

mafia mobility

mafia “trademark” control

New Orleans

Prohibition

Philadelphia

Pittsburgh

San Francisco

Sicilian immigration

Williamsburg

see also
New York

Ustica (prison; Italy)

Valachi, Joseph

The Valachi Papers

Vassallo, Don Ciccio

Verga, Giovanni

Verro, Bernardino

Verro, Giuseppina Pace Umana

via dei Georgofili (Florence): car bomb

via dei Gladiator (Rome): bomb

via Palestro (Milan): bomb

Villa Deliella (Palermo)

Villabate (town)

Villalba (town)

“Operation Husky”

wounding of Li Causi

Vitale, Leonardo

Vizzini, Don Calogero (“Zu Calò”; US codename “Bull Frog”)

“Operation Husky”

Miccichè (estate) takeover

Vizzini, Monsignor Giovanni

Vizzini, Raimonda

Wagner, Richard:
Parsifal

Whitaker, Audrey

Whitaker, Effie

Whitaker, Joseph (“Pip”)

Whitaker, Joshua (“Joss”)

Zaza, Michele (“Mad Mike”)

COSA NOSTRA

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