The World - News from Feb. 16, 1986
Officials of more than 50 Italian cities attended a special Palermo City Council session to pledge support for a nationwide attack on the Mafia. “If we all work together, we will not lose,” Deputy Mayor Giuseppe Zola of Milan said at the meeting, timed to coincide with the opening of a mass trial of 467 accused Mafia members. The gathering represented a marked change in the country’s view of the Mafia, which in the past had been considered primarily a problem for Sicily and of little concern to the Italian mainland.
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