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ro€iralt;*k (low4B\ \ l( IOR RIKSElu VSHINGl ONbosses. of [— I he dons, ora ( os a Nostra andthru* political ‘amicos nostros amin ferment Thev’re stewin': —• US' *!. ,.Fsome of them in bloodOn the inside thereA murderous civil war It s not a war over territory which has brought an escalation in bombings, killings and attempted executions. It's strictly a matter ofOrganized crime’s national commission’ has been defied. And the order I \ existence of the nation's 24criminal syndicates could not long exist unless the nine-member commission can continue to act as acombination supreme c o u r t ,legislature, board of directors antiarbitration panel,In moments of such strain even the lev ones turn to their national-a*m* kt NU. i«c.vore a lt;.old Speculator!”MiBig* f74-year-old eider■statesman Michele (Mike) Mirandaof New York’s Goenovese and Gam-bino families. They await his call.but nonetheless are having sectional conferences in out of the wav motels and on the high seas,Mike Miranda to whom all defer, reverently arising when he enters a home or private dining room, now maklt; s most decisions for the commission which looks to him for advice.Theirrose rublesrommunnv on the outSmen are just not uinside,s of a n vide. YoungernTypical is lohn Sonny Ftanzese now undoi heavy prison sentence.This young hood had built up asmall armv of his own and was- -pushing round the famesd Cosa Nostra families.With if) or 30 young muscle men,according to some I BI reports, hewas building a small labor empireof his own. as well as developingthe usual run of Cos a rackets. It can he reported that itwas to discipline this upstart thatentire national commission for the notorious little Apalachan” luncheon in a Queens, N 3' , restaurant several years ago.It isn’t only the new msurgencv which aggravates the manicured mobsters Hie re’s an older revoltled by one fa mil v chieftain, Joea, •(Bananas) Bonnano.V j h 1borne vears ago, he decided to expand. He did not muscle in onanvbodv. He didnot covet other commission members’ territory. He just wanted to expand — sort ofspirit of the times So, thrice, thecommission summoned him, Thrice he rejected the invitation.Now this crime syndicate Cassiusa man or two. They depart this world w ith a se\ ere case of leadpoisoning. Some fellows just learnthe hard wav%Ml that is on the inside. For the Mafia andprotective amicos nostros,” it’s just as nerve-rackingon the outside,Onlv two weeks ago.mmmmGeneral Ramsey Clark had a long skull sessiqgi with two of his fairlyanonymous aides,chief of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, and a crusadercalled Henry (Pete) Petersen, head of the Organized ( rimering Section.They mapped their strike force”campaign now operating in threeBuffalo, DetroitYork (the nation's crime capital, so called not because the combine is rougher there than in Chicago or, but because the familieswhich control the balance of poweron the commission live there.)At the moment the strike force” operation has hut $2 million fortravel and petty cash.What disturbs the commission is the swiftness with which the A.G• moving He, Vinson andPetersen have seven target areas considered the home bases of themost powerful criminal combines.These are New York, especiallythe huge borough of Brooklyn; NewJersey, where the construction industry is hard hit; easternPennsylvania from Philadelphia to Scranton, which covers h e a v ytransportation and m o b - o w n e dsmall shops; northern Illinois, especiallyOhio and southern M i c h i „southern Louisiana andand the««* •a nCi tv-Stregion.In the ‘strike force coalition is a virtually unknown unit, the LaborDepartment s Office of Labor-Man-agement and Welfare Pension reports. Its personnel is an honest band of dedicated men. Thev reallv are the buffer between the CosaYostra soldiers” — some 5 000strong — and the labor movementOf course, there always have been sweeping probes of the underworld. Rut this is different. Itsdirectors want no publicity, no headlines, no TV cameras. They want convictions. And they’re getting them — such as the recent conviction of the alleged New England gang boss, Ray Patriarca on chargeof conspiracy to murder. Police of-consider Patriarca a com*t»en, mission member.at s what’s worrying La ( Nostra, its supreme court, andamicos nostros
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Amarillo Globe Times
Amarillo, Texas, US
Fri, Mar 29, 1968
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