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Justice Departmenti*.dit3t5-di-Money Lacking To Fight CrimeWASHINGTON (AP) — Off!lt;-1 plain they’ve been left by Con-clals say a Justice Department I gress with inadequate funds to campaign against ^ organized carry on the war. crime, begun in 1961,'is succeed- Vinson says the department ing. But they assert congres- asked for 100 additional assist-: j sional tightening of purse | ant U.S. attorneys and got 65. 11 strings is hampering the fight He wanted (10 more lawyers for ^'against the Syndicate. - ItftecEimin^ti division—a battery . “We’re stretching and strain- of five is used in each task force1(1 ing aU the while,” said Assist- -'and didn’t get any. A demand 8 ant Atty. Gen. Fred M. Vinson for funds to provide 200 more^'| Jr., of the department’s Chrind-1nafcotics agents was.halved.nal Dvision, “but the fact is But. the heat’s on, and thereare reports of discomfort andmovement in the underworld. UrIEngland, where gambling has lef flourished in recent years, js'da considered ripe for sophisticat-er American racketeers. J18“They’ll go where the action is,” Peterson said, recallingU' that the Mafia sought other L0 places when. Fidel Castro took LQ] over Cuba and the Havana castnos, closed.c I havlng to fob Peter to payPaul to keep our people in thefield.”is I _T1[d Vinson and Henry Peterson, re|head of the division’s organized crime section, report highly mo-n.. bUe task forces of federal crime je fighters are making inroads into le La Cosa Nostra, but that more IS| money is needed for additional ’ men.• VBabs EisenhowermbescIWeds Colombiannealnt10iriaS.,id*‘tyre-)ldvs-gnelsheranestan-The task forces, spearhead of the Justice Department’s most recent efforts against organizedcrime, work with other federal agents in selected cities to pressure organized hoodlum elements.In Detroit, for example, they report 65 indictments-^ of them last Thursday.The task groups have infiltrated five areas so far, and are described by Justice Department officials as the biggest boon to organized crime-busting since Elliot Ness.dilateTlt;01CLIlt;\IVec-estillyec-ad-ILike guerrilla warfare, it’s difficult, Vinson said in an interview, to pinpoint gains against the underworld. But he thinks that since 1961, when Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy began the present campaign, “the graph has levelled off and maybe has gone down a bit.”VALLEY FORGE, Pa. (AP)[ly granddaughter’s happiness.. The bridegroom arrived ear- He’s in Washington recoveringly and the bride was a little from a heart, attack. But the late, but everything else went bride’s famous grandmother, according to plan Saturday at Mamie, came.the wedding of Barbara Anne she told reporters that Anne ^Eisenhower , and Fernando had telephoned her grandfather ^ Echavarria-Uribe, of Bogota, earlier in the day, but said sheColombia. did not know what they talked)®The 19-year-old granddaugh- about.ter of former President Dwight Future first lady, Mrs. Rich-D. Eisenhower was calm and ard Nixon, attended the ceremo-composed as she sat back in the ny with her daughter, Trlcia.limousine bringing her to Wash- The President-elect, however,irtgton Memorial Chapel in Val- was not there.ley Forge National Park about Mrs. Nixon said Anne lookedten minutes before the noontime ««So sweet, so very nice.” Theceremony was to begin. It was a bride’s mother, Mrs. John Ei-double-ring Episcopal service, senhower, said, “I feel great, I Her hands were steady. She am so glad everything went so clasped a cascading bouquet of well.”white flowers and a small white The Nixon’s younger daugh- IBible. ter, Julie, was one of Anne’sPhotographers crowded bridesmaids, around the car and Anne exhib- Julie plans to marry David), ited one sign of tension. She Eisenhower in the near future,AVE.ItSome officials estimate it may raised her hand to her face and possibly around Christmas. Da- ]take 10 years of vigorous effort slowly let it drop back to her vid was also a member of the to bring organized crime to lap. wedding party—he served as anheel.“What you have to do,” Vinson says, “is establish priorities .. . hit them where it hurts.”This is the job of the task forces, and two more groups leave the department for secret destinations within the next month. Another two, Peterson disclosed* are “on the drawing board” for early next year.But Vinson and Peterson com-When she emerged from the usher for his sister, chapel some 30 minutes later, Julie and David said they had she was radiantly' happy, but decided upon a date for their appeared a bit disconcerted by wedding, but “We can’t tell any-the press of newsmen and the one yet.”150 onlookers who had gathered Anne wore a soft candlelight to greet the couple. She smiled gown with embroidered lace a bit timidly and, clutching Fer- and pearl flowers. Over the Em-nando’s arm, made her way pire-style gown, she wore an slovMy to the waiting car. Alencon lace coat with a cathe-The former President could dral-length train. Her headdress not be present to share his love- was a short illusion veil.](
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Wichita Falls Times
Wichita Falls, Texas, US
Sun, Nov 17, 1968
Page 42
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