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\ V* 1st.V inMm*nseim-1 11OxerBy MALCOLM BARR\ssrH-iated Pri*ss WriterW \MHV TON (\p) - frffi.ciah say a Justice IVpartment campaign against organized crime,begun in |96|, is succeed-mg Hut they assert congrex-jsional tightening A purse strings js hampering the fight'against the Syndicate,j Wt re stretching and strain-in*’ ail the while, saidant Atty, fan. Fred M.Jr., uf |h* departments (rimi-nas Dvision, but the fact is we re having in ri»l) Peter to pay Paul to keep our people in tht*field\ir»s(n and Henry Peterson, head of the divisi »n s organized crime section, rt port highly mo. bile task forces if federal crime fighters ar making inroads intoJa C'usa \ stra, 'Md tlv.it mlt;rrmoney is needed for additionalmen.Ihe task forces, spearhead f»f the Justice De|artment 's most et ent effort igainst ugani/ed -.crime, work with lt;gber federal agents in selected cities to pre .sure organized hoodlum elementsIn l*tr at, par example, they 'report 6* indictments— 12 ofthem iast I hursdayrhe task groups nave infiltrated five areas so tar, and jre described ^by Justice Department •fficials as the biggest boon toorganized crime-busting sinceI 11 lot NessLike guerrilla warfare, it *s difficult, Vinson said in an interview, to pinpoint gain against tin* underw »r!d. Put ts thinks that smci 196|, when \tt (en,Robert F, Kennedy began thepi sent campaign, the graph has levelled »f! and mavbe hasgone down a bit.Some ifficials estimate it may take 10 years of vigorous effortto bring organized crime toheel.What von have to do, Vin-son says, *• is establish priorities... hit them when it hurts 'I his is the job of the task forces, and two more groupsleave the d« partment for secret destination* within the next month, Vnother two, Peterson disclosed, ire m the drawing board for early next year.Hut \ in- *n and Peterson complain they ve been left by C ongress *,fh inadequate funds tocarry txt the war.Vinson says the department asked for I Oil additional assistant I ,s. attorneys and got 65.He wanted 40 more lawyers for the criminal division—a battery of five is used in each task force — and didn't get any. V demandOne p*rson was killed, sixpersons injured and property damage .»f $6,720 was reported in rural traffic accidents in Jim Wells County during October,according to Lt, F. C . Carpenter of the 1 exas Highway Patrol mCorpus Christi.Duv il County was the only other county of the six m Sergeant’s Vrea 3 to report a rural fatality.1 he Jim Wells County death, the fifth in 1968, w is-J.O. (iriggsof Vlice killed in afor funds to provide 200 more narcotics agents was halved Hut the heat's on, and there are reports of discomfort and movement in the underworld.V Ins on said an indication tisat the task force scheme is begin-ning to pay off is the obviousunwillingness of the second (Mafia) echelon to assume pow-er •He says a seriesdoms has begunparticularly in theyears.of fief-emerging,past twoSenate Republican leader Fv-with erlt; tt M. Dirksen of Illinois said he will support the efforts of Democratic leader Mike Mans-w VSHINf.TON (AP) - Presi dent Johnson has agreed party leaders not to call a special Senate session in exchange .for their pledge to act promptly field of Montana to bring on the nuclear nonproliferation treaty up as quickly a treaty when the new Congr convenesP*after the Vnate meets Ian Sen. (leurge D. \iken, R-Vt , top minority rrtember of it* Vnate Foreign Itelat*jjn C rn-mittee, said in a view xaL-rday J +s or hope 40before tf'V'if fYes uNi voni f h% iJHr4 wants ratlru ition of Other than the fatalities m Jim intended to controlWells and Duval there were 11 spread of nuclear wtlpi,lives lost m rural traffic acci- stand a-- an achievement Adents m the 21 counties of Re- administration.on a. Midalgo t ounty reported four deaths, San PatricioC ounty two and Dewitt, Nueces, Refugio and starr counties reported one each.* *trafficaccidents reported in this dis trict during October. In additiotto the thirteen persons killed.Hut it will be an uphill fight to get action before the Aiken observedNixon called during be cam peign for a delay in iction or the treaty, which Johnson wavpressing for in October, befonthe 90th Congress adjourned.Fhe Republican president iacandidate said desp hit
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Alice Daily Echo
Alice, Texas, US
Sun, Nov 17, 1968
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