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Article: MAFIA WOMEN EMERGING SOME NO LONGER FOLLOW ANCIENT COSA NOSTRA CODE; OTHERS USE NEW AUTONOMY TO CARVE OUT BIGGER ROLE.(News/National/International)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- May 5, 1996
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Byline: Frances D'Emilio Associated Press
PALERMO, Sicily -- The Mafia kept her back in the shadows and away from its secrets. If she knew, she didn't tell. She washed clothes bloodied by killings and bore the next generation of killers.
For centuries, the ``Mafia Woman'' - wife, mother, sister - knew her place.
But the Mafia's world is changing, and so are its women.
Often it is the Mafiosi's women who are giving their men the courage to break with the mob and confess crimes to investigators. The swelling number of turncoats - a development unthinkable barely a decade ago - has proved a key weapon in the state's uphill war against organized crime.
Still, ...