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Ex-premier indicted on Mafia charges
The Associated Press
PALERMO, Sicily — Opening a case that could eclipse recent Italian corruption scandals, a judge indicted former Premier Giulio Andreotti yesterday for allegedly consorting with the Mafia.
Andretti, italy's leading postwar statesman, is the most senior political figure to face Mafia charges and the wrath of the nation's backlash against the underworld.
Prosecutors have portrayed the seven-time premier as a Mafia protector who led a conspiracy of favor-trading during some of the mob's bloodiest years in the 1970s and '80s.
Andretti, 76, says the charges were based on a vendetta against him by Mafa turncoats and former political allies.
"I face with bitterness an unfair trial," said Andreotti, who did not attend yesterday's six-hour hearing, held in a heavily-guarded courtroom.
The judge, Agostino Gristina, set trial to begin Sept. 26 in Palermo. If convicted, he may be sentenced to life.
If convicted, Andreotti could face
up to 20 years in prison, according to Italian news reports. Prosecutors didn't release a list of exact charges against him.
The case could extend far beyond Andreotti, whose Christian Democrats dominated Italy from 1945 until the party was wiped out by corruption scandals last year.
Prosecutors claim the Mafia guaranteed the party votes and political control of Sicily. In exchange, mob-controlled companies received government contracts and protection from police crackdowns. Some Mafia members ran under the Christian Democrat banner for local posts in Sicily, authorities allege.
The case could encompass suspected mob killings, including the 1992 slaying of Salvo Lima, a European Parliament member and close friend of Andreotti. Prosecutors claim Lima was the middleman between the Christian Democrats and the Mafia.
The accusations against Andretti were first made two years ago by Mafa turncoats, or *peniti*, who have helped prosecutors in other
One of the main penitia told prosecutors that Andreotti met with mob leaders and gave the reputed "boss of bosses," Salvatore "Toto" Rilina, the traditional Mafia fifti of respect in 1987.
recent cases.
Andreotti has claimed he initiated many crackdowns on the Mafia and that the pentiti concocted their stories as revenge.
Rina and 36 others went on trial last week for charges stemming from the 1992 bombing that killed crusading anti-Mafia prosecutor Judge Giovanni Falcone.
But last month, some members of Andreotti's old political clique began recounting alleged party ties with the Mafia. They claimed Andretti gave wedding gifts to some mobsters and at least one reputed Mafia boss often called him Uncle Giulio.
Andreotti, a senator-for-life who waived immunity from prosecution, served terms as premier between 1972 and 1992 and held other government posts in between.
Whether he actually goes on trial
in September is far from certain. Defense lawyers can use many delaying tactics. And even if the trial begins, Italy's justice system requires several steps before a sentence is final.
Sull, the case could overshadow Italy's political kickback probes that have implicated more than 3,000 businessmen and political leaders. Several other former premiers have been convicted or investigated for corruption, but Andreotti is the first for Mafia association.
"This could put on display all the monsters that have ruled Sicily and operated at the centers of political power," said James Walston, a political science professor at the American University in Rome.
The Mafia, however, still casts a heavy shadow over Sicily. In Palermo yesterday, suspected Mafia gunmen killed the nephew of a prominent mob turncoat and another man in front of dozens of people on a busy street.
Hiroshima marks bombing of city
Few U.S. officials will go to observe 50th anniversary
The Associated Press
HIROSHIMA, Japan — Statesmen, survivors and peace activists from around the world will gather in Hiroshima this summer for the 50th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing. But don't count U.S. officials among the solemn crowd.
The legacy of that day a half-century ago, when a single American atomic bomb instantly devastated a Japanese city, still makes two close friends sometimes act like old foes.
Hiroshima Mayor Takashi Hiraoka is the organizer of the Aug. 6 commemoration.
set off U.S. veterans' protests.
In Tokyo, a U.S. Embassy official would only say, "We have not made any decision on what to do if invited."
Past invitations to U.S. presidents to attend Hiroshima events have been declined, he said in an interview. Hiraoka thought high-level U.S. officials would not attend this time even if he invited them.
This apparent snub may actually be a face-saving gesture, sparing Americans and Japanese alike the embarrassment of rejected invitations or the awkwardness of U.S. participation, something likely to
Embarrassment and protest already have marred the lead-up to the anniversary of history's first nuclear attack, an event laden with worldwide symbolic significance.
Last December, the U.S. Postal Service canceled plans to mark the anniversary with a mushroom cloud stamp, a design that offended sensibilities in Japan, where an estimated 210,000 men, women and children died beneath the mushroom clouds of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, three days later.
The Smithsonian Institution scaled back in January a planned exhibit on the Hiroshima bombing after veterans' groups angrily complained that the show's commentary questioned the moral and political wisdom of the attack.
The only American official invited thus far to the Aug. 6 event is Mayor Jeremy Harris of Honolulu, a Hiroshima sister city. But the weight of history hangs heavy in Honolulu, too, because it was the site of Japan's 1941 surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.
That leaves only U.S. peace activists and other unofficial Americans among the guests, expected to be led by U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali.
The absence of U.S. officials at Hiroshima would contrast sharply with the presence of the top U.S.
uniformed officer, Gen. John Shalikashvili, at last month's commemoration of the U.S.-British firebombing of Dresden, Germany, and with plans for U.S. Embassy participation in next week's remembrance of the 83,000 victims of the American firebombing of Tokyo on March 9-10, 1945.
But those conventional air raids have faded into history, while the Hiroshima atomic bombing still figures in today's debate about the legitimacy of nuclear arms. Hiroshima is the symbol of a global movement to abolish nuclear arsenals.
The unending debate about Hiroshima plays out even on the walls of the city's Peace Memorial Museum.
For most Americans, a single reason comes to mind for the Hiroshima bombing: to end World War II quickly and save American lives. But a museum display board adds two others: The Americans wanted to intimidate the Soviet Union and to use the weapon in war to measure its effectiveness.
Some Japanese believe that the United States could have won the war without using the atom bomb.
"The Japanese did some cruel things in World War II," Hiraoka said. "But I don't think it can be said the atomic bombing is justified by those cruel actions."
R.E.M. drummer suffers brain hemorrhage on concert
Irish rebel charged with hiding money
examination, and doctors determined he had suffered a brain hemorrhage.
Associated Press
Lieberberg said he could not give any further information about Berry's condition or other details.
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — A former Northern Ireland rebel drew five years in prison yesterday for hiding $2 million from a 1993 Brink's armored-car holdup.
No one has been convicted of committing the $7.4 million robbery, but U.S. District Judge David Larimer said Wednesday he believed Samuel Millar was up to his eyeballs in the case. Millar received the maximum sentence.
He will face deportation when he is released from prison.
Most of the Brink's money is missing. Investigators suspect it was given to the Irish Republican Army.
Millar, 40, spent 10 years in a Northern Ireland prison for a botched bombing, setting fire to buses and holding membership in the IRA's youth organization.
FRANKFURT, Germany — The drummer of the rock group R.E.M., Bill Berry, suffered a brain hemorrhage and is expected to undergo surgery in Switzerland, his German agent said yesterday.
In 1984, Millar was smuggled into the United States by Thomas O'Connor, a retired detective from Rochester. O'Connor was working as a security guard at a Brink's depot when it was raided by gunmen in 1993.
Wednesday night, Berry felt ill and was unable to complete a concert in Lausanne, Switzerland, said Marek Lieberberg, the band's concert promoter.
Months later, the FBI traced $2 million to an unoccupied New York City apartment used by Millar and the Rev. Patrick Moloney, a Melkite Catholic priest who emigrated from Ireland in 1955 and ran a New York youth shelter.
He was taken to a hospital for
Millar and Moloney were convicted of conspiracy to possess stolen money. O'Connor, the alleged mastermind behind the holdup, was acquitted of the crime.
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