NEWS
November 25, 1992 | WILLIAM D. MONTALBANO, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Judge Osvaldo Bonsangue's mugger was a smoker. The crime happened on Teocrito Street in the Sicilian city of Syracuse, hometown of the great mathematician Archimedes. The judge was smoking a cigarette when a young man snatched it from his mouth and--eureka!--ran off puffing madly. Strange things happen when a whole country is unconditionally sentenced to nicotine withdrawal.