The World - News from Nov. 7, 1988
An Italian court has sentenced 26 Mafia gangsters to life imprisonment and 104 others to lesser terms in connection with a clan war for control of a drug-trafficking network between Sicily and northern Italy. The court in Turin acquitted 68 defendants in handing down its rulings after a 19-month trial. The defendants were accused of crimes including 61 murders, four kidnapings and hundreds of robberies since the mid-1970s. The prosecution was based largely on the evidence of eight Mafia bosses turned informers; the eight received reduced sentences of between 17 and 24 years.
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