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Who's Incharge? Mob Experts Disagree Page 10B COLUMBIA MISSOURIAN Wednesday Aug 30 1978 Who's in charge? Mob experts disagree By Max H Seigel Thomas P Puccio head of the that its head is Dellacroce who served among Fortune magazine s top 500 New York Times Organized Crime Strike Force for the as underboss until he went to pnson for Today labor racketeering is one of Eastern District of New York which tax evasion in 1973 the major areas of Mafia in- U.S. NEW YORK Two years after the covers Brooklyn Queens, Staten Island Both federal and local authorities say volvement," Puccio said "Other areas Mafia leaders in the dtath of Carlo Gambino and Long Island the im- reputedly the stressed informants are their major source of include the counterfeiting and theft of New York Times Joseph N Civillo the boss, in prison ' most powerful organized-crim-e figure portance of identifying the most information about organized crime stocks and bonds, land development, Los Angeles Louis Dragna in the country, law enforcement of- powerful figures organized They say they use " in crime also electronic pornography and arson The Federal Bureau of In- Miami An open city, with the ficials sa that no successor It helps us our eavesdropping, personal certain has allocate resources, but surveillance He added, "They have learned over vestigation says investigation of Genovese and Gambino families emerged and the problem the and its that Carmine Galante the is that hierarchy isn t information from civilians as well the years how to clean up their money, organized enme has enabled it to most active head of the Bonanno ' ' stone crime family carved in he said It can as policemen on the street and so they are now in various identify mob leaders had .sought to change Although in various Milwaukee Frank Balistnen assume the role but very rapidly the federal and local in legitimate businesses' Puccio said outside New York City failed aties Las Vegas Tony Spilotro The FBI and the police agree that the vestigators use similar methods to these include the ownership of hotels, Outside New York State, the FBI The officials say Gambino glean organized Atlantic City An open city, with Galante, who is now family is the largest and most information about bars casinos, construction and identifies the following leaders for a violation powerful of organized-crim- e often up with dif- the Bruno and Gambino families in prison parole was the crime they come trucking companies and private Baltimore Frank Corbi, a unable to consolidate five but they not on findings active Leaders-ar- e Paul D'Amato, all families in families do agree who ferent The reason, according catering businesses Gambino lieutenant New York City to to Joseph Abate and Nicodemo Scarfo in his efforts become its leaders are Puccio, whose strike force works Capt Ronald J Fennch, head of the Boston Raymond Patnarca, most powerful organized-crim-e According to with FBI the the FBI the head is both is that the is much more Investigative and Analysis Section of also said to control all of New New Orleans Carlo Marcello leader Paul C Castellano a brother in law cautious in drawing conclusions from the Office of Organized Crime Control, England Philadelphia Angelo Bruno There is disagreement between the and first cousin of Gambino and the the material it gets says prostitution has been pretty much Chicago Anthony Accardo Pittsburgh Sebastian La Rocca Federal Bureau of Investigation and man who once represented the family The disagreements are longstanding, abandoned simply because it does not retiring, Joseph Aiuppa in charge St Louis Anthony Giordano in the New York police over who the in dealing with families both but they have not been so obvious as is other pay enough Rockford 111 Joseph Zammuto pnson James Giammanco acting strongest FBI locally country they today And officials say leader The says it is and elsewhere in the are that Organized crime keeps changing its Cleveland James Licavok boss Frank Tien of New York of is because until recently not the head The underboss or second in there has areas of operation, Fennch added, Denver Clarence M Smaldone San Francisco Anthony Lima the Genovese family, 64-year-- old much who while the police command, the FBI says is been so uncertainty about is constantly going where the money is Detroit Anthony Zenlh Montreal Paul Violi murdered argue Joseph Bonanno, of Aniello Dellacroce really power behind organized that the last the the He said that, in the last 15 years, Kansas City Carlo De Luna Jan 22, Joseph Di Maulo acting five original family The only whose the heads is the police say that Castellano is crime families estimated organized crime had spread to the fighting Carlo Civillo for position boss strongest a lieutenant in the Gambino family and earnings would easily place them Southwest because of land booms there Identity crisis faces French Communists By Jim Browning Washington Star PARIS Not long ago, rumpled-lookin- g Communist intellectual Jean Elleinstein sat down with some British and American journalists to try to explain why an open struggle has broken out within Com- -a- the French -" rTl" ""g" munist party over its future direction WE WELCOME FOOD STAMPS As he explained it France s Com BraHi munists now face an identity crisis The most important question he said, is what future influence the Soviet Union is going to have over the large and influential Communist parties of southwest Europe At issue is whether we declare our total independence from the U S S R he said A university nistonan who has become the party s most outspoken dissident Elleinstein wants the party to give up Leninist doctrine and work instead for gradual improvements for the working class It is not a question of criticizing the Soviet Communist party from tune to time (as French party leaders do today ) Elleinstein asserted but of criticizing the very fundamentals of Sovet reality We must say that Sov iet socialism does not correspond in any wav to the kind of socialism we want for France S Since France s Communists I Detergent P Evaporated KINGSTON I 1 regularly win over 20 percent of the j MSgm&gs I vote in French elections U.S and Soviet diplomats are following the part s internal dispute with close interest The debate is also being watched by the other major Eurocommunist" parties, those of Itah and Spain which have already gunc miuici uicii uic riciiui ill questioning Soviet style society The debate here has its roots in the decision of the party leadership to take a hard line in legislative elections held earlier this year The leadership split with its Socialist Party allies and stressed Con"iunist commitment to nationalization of industry and redistribution of income While the Soviet Union was pleased at the break with the Socialists, French voters were frightened and the divided left was soundly defeated The debate is likely to come to a head Save22c witrun the next six months Save 30eSmucker's Grape Keebler French Vanilla or Elfwich " !"" "T2T&, Early next year the party holds its ", 23rd congress to set the broad direction JELLY COOKIES f of 32109 '-- official policy for the next three JiL83 Jg; : California years Between now and then basic Kli'T decisions about the Soviet Union and Save 8' Stokely Tomato Gooch Budget 'vKp fBHS- - - "if" "Exa Fancy" party democracy will have to be made 46-O- Z Thompson JUICE &$ NOODLES M -- A V Seedless One of the most important questions JL5T - IF is whether the party will now permit SPAnnPHYII.UM, 4pP S"' members to openly question official Save 14 Chocolate Beads All Grinds " El B"9 Maxwell House THFFFFKA mt . lifUlVl1!Wmi MM S policy without being threatened with exclusion v.n.u 2 In the name of liberalism a top party sr coffee SELLOUM . official recently helped 'ead a protest " JHra-sLf- Folger's Flaked Save 60c Folger's 6-In- ch tS MZa demonstration through Pans streets Instant Pots rDADCfiiT 2P 26-oz5- 05 J $ after Anatoly Shcharansky went on COFFEE trial in Moscow en treason charges C0FFEE2i418 President Carter was so pleased that he MBBM $&?$& made a point of commending the Save 10c Scott Paper Save 20c Lawn Clean Up Bags pnru sTm rcaqq 1 LB mEB jB? I French Communists during his ' town meeting ' in Berlin in mid July TOWELSigg6y HEFTYigL.t9g V But the French Communist Party has J refused to criticize Soviet policy in Wmm Africa and has instead focused its criticism on the French Government Over the next six months, the French pSJSP" ""EST I (?&&BU GBm9Kfi y KU California party will face a three-wa- internal PR,CE 22" battle for influence In addition to the JSSSSi","1-- . --JT wwvZw W&Si!k&&) "Red Ripe" dissidents, who are bringing pressure 73 ii vm uuuiik uic pan o yuuuuai TISSUEL59 SLICING bureau the leadership is thought to be si SWEET JI3S$S divided into two broad tendencies moderate and hard line savei6c, ,fi, COHN Ol TOMATOES The party's secretary general, TOMATOESi239 55ee George Marchais, one of the most ffl&&&gfr pragmatic moderates is the man who 22,, m. ushered in communism in the colors of S France" and formally abandoned the PHESC!!1L47 save goal of ' dictatorship of the proletariat ' 53 at the last party congress in 1976 two LpM With one or exceptions notably smJ newspaper articles published by doctrinaire theorist Louis Althusser 219l!L KINGSTON KINGSTON A the hard-line- rs haye not gone public If I f 1 t 1 ADORN "PSsS. with their opposition to the gradual BISCUIT SANDWICH f aJSSL ltS modification of party policy They believed, however, to have m " are MllL BJ& DETERGENT TOOTHPASTE forced Marchais into the tough J512-OZ$flsav- 150-CTJ!tf- I I e & I 35-OzSf- f$& J Cl , position he took one year SY negotiating ago that prevented the adoption of a common political platform between the Communists and Socialists ff"TOf7ltJS:sWfiJ76H "JaMISSfcfifraftiflgaiM -- 4KJrrPttfiTw7fffB!frfLi' W WBBtttBBKBUUmaUBUSBBS HBIHHBifiHfiuHufiH H&lfifASfjB'ftfcaLSJ' Bst aLHiM I 1.
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