me "Castle: News February 27, 1985 New York Mafia leaders indicted NEW YORK (AP) — The reputed top leaders of New York City’s five organized crime familes have been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of participating in a “commission” that governs mob operations, prosecutors announced Tuesday. The 15-count indictment names Anthony (Fat Tony) Salerno, Paul (Big Paul) Castellano, Antonio (Tony Ducks) Corallo, Gennaro (Jerry Lang) Langella and Phillip (Rusty) Rastelli as heads of the Genovese, Gambino, Lucchese, Colombo and Bonanno faniilies respectively. Acting together, they allegedly regulated Mafia criminal activities ranging from murders — including the 1979 slaying of mob boss Carmine Galante — to loan sharking, ing, drug icking and labor rack club,” operates a multimillion-dollar extortion scheme which dominates the concrete industry. Scopo is president of the Concrete Workers District Council of the Laborers Interna- tional Union of North America. If convicted of racketeering, each man would face a maximum of 20 years in prison. Ten counts of extortion, against each of the defendants except Rastelli, carry a maximum of 20 years per count while two counts of accepting labor payoffs, again involving all but Rastelli, carry a maximum of one year each. The indictments, based on a federal anti-racketeering statute, stem from an investigation by the New York State Organized Crime Task Force. ing. Four other men also were indicted. They are Aniello (O'Neill) Dellacroce, a reputed underboss in the Gambino family; Salvatore (Tom Mix) Santoro, an alleged Lucchese underboss; Christopher (Christy Tick) Furnari, a reputed Lucchese “consigliere,” or counsellor, and Ralph Scoro, a purported “soldier” in the Colombo family. Sources close to the investigation, who spoke only on tle condition they not be named, said the nine were arrested in a sweep overnight. ‘HISTORIC’ SWEEP In a statement prepared for a news conference announcing the indictments, FBI Director William Webster called the sweeping arrests “historic.” “It exposes the structure and leadership of organized crime on g scale never done before,” Webster said. “It alleges not only the activities regulated and authorized by the commission but also a 54-year history of the commission's role in facilitating the illegal activities of la Cosa Nostra. Prosecutors said the group, referring to itself as “the planted an electronic surveillance device on a car used by Corallo, allowing them to trace Corallo toa Telephone 365-5210 Cones Se Business Directory will be accepted up to 5 Tory — L. Brown Certified General Accountant 276 Columbia Ave. Castlegar Ph. 365-2151 “sit-down” of family bosses and to hear him later what transpired at the meeting. FORMED IN 1931 The commission was formed in 1931 by Charles (Lucky) Luciano and other New York crime figures to co-ordinate the operations of the five crime families that had been flourishing since the turn of the century, prosecutors charged. One of its principal duties was to resolve leadership disputes that arose among various factions. One such dispute was allegedly settled in 1979 when the commission authorized the murder of Galante, who led a faction in the Bonanno family. He was gunned down in a Brooklyn restaurant. The federal war on the New York Mafia began more than three years ago, when more than 100 federal agents and city police detectives were divided into five groups, one to investigate each family. Since August 1983, the reputed leaders of three crime families and more than 300 alleged members and associates have been indicted. Mengele sold drugs WASHINGTON (AP) The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency had reports as far back as 1971 that Dr. Josef Mengele, one of Nazi Ger. many’s most notorious war ls, was “heavily in- volved” in drug trafficking from his residence in Para- guay, documents released Tuesday indicate. The declassified govern ment documents also include an unverified report that Mengele's roommate in 1968 in Paraguay was Martin Bor- mann, Hitler's designated successor. Bormann is thought to have died in 1945 in Berlin, but there have been recur ring reports over the last four decades that he may have escaped to South Amer. ica. During the Second World War, Mengele was chief doc- tor at the Auschwitz camp in part of Adolf Hitler's Solution,” Mengele, who would be 73 if still alive, is the most wanted Nazi still at large. The declassified docu- ments were obtained by sen- ators Alfonse D'Amato (R-N.Y.) and Arlen Specter (R-Pa), who are involved in the recently intensified hunt to find Mengele. The U.S. Justice Depart- ment last month it Final tie surgery to make himself appear much younger. The documents said Men. gele first arrived in Paraguay in 1951 and “lived alternately in Paraguay, Brazil, Argen- tina and Uruguay.” One of the documents, a 1972 report, said Mengele was naturalized as a Para guayan citizen in 1959, but was conducting an intensive search to find Mengele and the U.S. army is investigat- ing reports it may have had Mengele in custody shortly after the war. Kathy Pherson, a CIA spokesman, said her group had turned the information over to different government agencies, including the State and Defence departments, when it was “appropriate.” The heavily censored doc- d a year later and “was rumored to have gone to Matto Grosso, Brazil. Is- raeli agents during the mid- dle of 1960 made an intensive search both in Asuncion and interior Paraguay, didn't find Mengele and felt he had gone to Brazil.” The documents say Men. gele has used a number of false names, including “Dr. Henrique Wollman. This is Mengel's last known alias. It practised medicine.” At a U.S. Senate judiciary subcommittee hearing last week, Rabbi Marvin Hier said he had information that Mengele was living in Par- aguay as recently as 1982. Paraguay has consistently denied Mengele lives there. In an unrelated move the Simon Wiesenthal Centre in Los Angeles, which Hier heads, Monday offered a $1 million reward for any infor. mation leading to the arrest and extradition of Mengele. The centre, an institute for the study of German war crimes, said the money had been put up by donors wished to remain anonyfnous but who would disclose their identities in the event of Mengele's capture. The $1 million is in addition to re- Poland where more than one million Jews were killed as uments also include a report Mengele had undergone plas was used in 1972 in Encar. nacion, Paraguay, where he wards that total $375,000. previously pledged BECAUSE OF MANKIND World falling apart By NORMA GREENAWAY WASHINGTON (CP) — The decaying relationship between man and his natural environment may be more of a threat to the world's security and well-being than conflicts between countries, a U.S. research organization says. In a grim report called the State of the World 1985, the Worldwatch Institute said the most severely stressed natural support systems, including water, soils and forests, are beginning to break down under the demands of a world population of almost five billion. Worldwatch president Lester Brown called for a thorough overhaul of agriculture, energy and population policies with the goal of ensuring natural resources are managed on a sustainable basis “The cornerstone of such a reorientation is a realization that our security and future well-being may be threatened less by the conflicts among nations than they are by the deteriorating relationship between ourselves, soon to be five billion, and the natural systems and resources that sustain us,” Brown said Focusing on the human toll of drought and famine in Ethiopia and other African countries, the report warned the crisis will deepen unless steps are taken to boost agriculture production and slow the population growth “Reversing the ecological deterioration and economic decline now under way in so much of Africa may require international collaboration greater than any since the Allied powers mobilized during World War II,” Brown said in releasing the report “It demands leaders who will shift the world’s attention and its resources from maintaining East-West hostility to restoring the natural systems that ultimately sustain all socieites. CITES PROGRAMS Brown said the effort will require starting from “square one” with continental programs of family planning, massive tree planting and soil and water conservation. The report said Asia and Africa are the continents facing the gravest water problems, whereas Canada is the most water-wealthy country in the world on a per capita basis. Brown said drought “triggered” the African famine but the crisis is the result of a rapidly growing population of 531 million, widespread soil-erosion and the neglect of agriculture by African governments. The report is the second annual survey by the Washington-based research body on how changes in the Earth's natural systems and resources affect the economy. Brown told reporters there is growing evidence in some regions of the world, most notably Africa, that population growth may be indirectly reducing rainfall by decreasing the land's vegetation cover. As vegetation is reduced by deforestation or overgrazing, the share of rainfall running off directly to the ocean increases, he said. The result is that less rainfall evaporates into the atmosphere to recharge rain clouds, he said “We cannot prove that,” he told reporters. “But it seems likely “If population growth is leading to a long-term decline in rainfall in Africa, then we are on the edge of an unfolding human drama on a scale that has no precedent — one that the world is not well prepared to manage.” LISTS FIGURES Brown said the loss of forests exceeds the planting of trees by a ratio of 29 to one in Africa. In South America, the ratio is 10 to one and in Asia five to one. The report, which included a previously-released Worldwatch study on pollution, warned that acid rain and air pollutants from the combustion of fossil fuels in automobiles and power plants are threatening the forests of the industrialized world. 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