Mob Leaders Weigh Restarting International Drug Trade
Newsday reported New York Cosa Nostra leaders on Staten Island discussed resuming narcotics trafficking for profit and as a service to the country. Young mobsters pressed to reenter. a 1960s ban aimed to avoid informers. A Corsican group and Santo Trafficante were cited as contacts.
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Garden City
N.Y
UPI
New York
Newsday
Tom Renner
Underworld
Cosa Nostra
Santo Trafficante
Florida
Corsica
Mediterranean
United States
Latin America
Canada
U.S
Vietnam
Manhunt intensifies as tourists vanish in Florida
Five tourists are missing from a Polk County motel as authorities chase escaped prisoner William Elias Davidson and his wife Ellen. Deputy Bruce Browning, diabetic and held hostage, faces potential insulin shock while Davidson allegedly demanded treatment and a hidden shotgun was seized from an X-ray room.
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Bartow
Fla
UPI
Bruce Browning
William Elias Davidson
Browning
Davidson
West Virginia
Polk County
Ellen
Fire in California May Be Contained Skyward Hope For Condor Preserve
Fire crews forecast containment by morning after a third day of favorable weather in Los Padres National Forest near the Sespe Condor Sanctuary. About 2,400 firefighters battled the blaze which has scorched around 16,700 acres, with crews preventing spread toward condor nesting areas. Retardant planes worked the last hotspot at Topatopa Bluff as Kern River Canyon fires were brought under control.
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Fillmore
Calif
UPI
U.S. Forest Service
Los Padres National Forest
Los Angeles
North America
Bakersfield
High Sierra
Forest Service
Borate
Topatopa Bluff
Condor Sanctuary
Kern River Canyon
Sequoia National Forest
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Ashland
Ohio
U.S. News
California
Columbus
Columbus, Ohio
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