Italy vows to deter mafia presence in quake rebuilding projects

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said here on Thursday that the mafia would be kept out of the reconstruction of the Abruzzo capital L'Aquila and neighboring towns ravaged by the April 6 earthquake. "There will be extremely strict controls against the mafia and against property speculators," the prime minister said when visiting the first school set up in three tents in one of the camps ...