Return To Sicily
In 1981 La Torre requested the party to be sent back to Sicily where he became the regional secretary of the PCI. He also became part of the popular movement against the deployment of Ground Launched Cruise Missiles (GLCM) by the United States at Comiso Air Base, just as the journalist Giuseppe Fava. The missiles were stationed in June 1983, but were dismantled after the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) was signed by the former Soviet Union and the United States on December 8, 1987. The last 16 GLCMs left the Comiso Air Base in 1991.
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