1998 12 31-PALERMO, ITALY: Magistrate Paolo Borsellino, killed in Palermo by Sicilian mafia. A parish priest of Palermo, Don Cosimo Scordato, proposed 31 December 1998 to beatify Borsellino and other magistrate Rosario Livatino, both killed by mafia, after cardinal Salvatore De Giorgi announced 29 December his intention to begin the procedure to beatify don Giuseppe Puglisi, killed by mafia in 1983, as „first martyr victim of mafia“. EPA/ANSA FILES