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ROME — For more than 40 years he eluded arrest. He dispatched
\n orders on little typewritten notes and shunned telephones that might
\n pinpoint his location. His resume allegedly included some of the most
\n gruesome murders in Mafia lore.<\/p>\n
Yesterday, the reputed godfather of the Cosa Nostra and Italy’s most-wanted
\n fugitive was captured in a ramshackle farmhouse outside the Sicilian town
\n of Corleone, a name made infamous by author Mario Puzo and Marlon Brando.<\/p>\n
Provenzano, 73, has been on the run since 1963, surviving thanks to a network
\n of faithful henchmen, his family, and corrupt police and politicians. Authorities
\n say he became the ”capo di tutti capi," the boss of bosses, following
\n the arrest in 1993 of Salvatore ”The Beast" Riina.<\/p>\n
He was convicted in absentia in the 1992 bombing murder of a leading anti-Mafia
\n prosecutor in Sicily. He earned the nickname ”The Tractor" from his
\n reputation for mowing down people in his youth, when authorities say he
\n was an up-and-coming hit man for the Corleone clan. <\/p>\n
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