Corsica's chief exports to France have been olives, Napoleon Bonaparte and Paris Police Chief Jean Chiappe. Two years ago Corsica's chief imports were General Fournier, 800 gendarmes, armored cars, airplanes and bloodhounds to hunt out Corsica's fourth best-known product: burly, pouting Bandit Andre Spada. Spada, whose name means ''sword," acquired much newspaper fame from loose comparisons of his activities with those of the oldtime Corsican mountaineers. who waged simple vendettas against one another. Andre Spada was just a gangster.
For nine years Andre Spada worked to make banditry a beautiful thing in Corsica. In...
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