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Decision on Addonizio jailing is due next week By MARK MAGYAR behavior. Anthony LaMorte and the late Joseph Blancone, an associate that Addonizio would not have to finish his sentence, but the StatCSMMM CofTGMQMlOt Two hundred people, some carrying old Addonizio cam- of the late mobster Anthony "Tony Boy" Bolardo, had been U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled on June 4, 197*. that TRENTON — Former Newark Mayor Hugh J. Addonizio paign banners, paraded outside the Peter Rodlno Federal paroled the year before. both Barlow and the Third Circuit had exceed their authority will be able to stay in his 'self-imposed prison'' on a peaceful Building In Newark yesterday morning to protest a U.S. Lewisburg prison officials and the regional parole board in freeing Addonizio. Tinton Falls street until next week while a federal judge Parole Commission decision that Addonizio must resume had recommended Addonizio for parole in both 1B75 and 1*77, In overuling Barlow, the Supreme Court held that a decides whether to send him back to prison after two yean of serving his 10-year prison sentence for extorting 1241,000 on but the U.S. Parole Commission rejected their recommenda- sentencing judge's expectations of how long a convicted freedom. municipal construction contracts. tions both times. criminal can serve cannot override the decision of parole Addonizio's, attorney asked U.S. District Court Judge "That was a demonstration of outrage by John <J. Pub- The commission noted in Jan. 1977, after Addonizio had authorities, and remanded the case to the U.S. Parole Com- CUrkson Fisher yesterday to keep the former mayor out of lic," declared Addonizio's son, James, a Red Bank lawyer. served 57 months, that federal guidelines suggest 26 to 36 mission. prison until at least October, when the U.S. Parole Com- "There seems to be some kind of animosity against my dad months be served "before release for cases with good institu- Addonizio personally appeared before the regional parole mission is scheduled to review his case. by the Parole Commission beyond that against any other tional adjustment." board in Newark on Aug. 1 and said that "by his own choice" But Fisher yesterday offered little hope that the 65-year- politician. But the commission disregarded the guidelines "because he lives in "a self-imposed prison by remaining to himself old Addonixto would be able to avoid spending at least one "The State Senate passed a resolution two years ago of the magnitude of this crime, its economic effect on the and with his family in Tinton Falls," month, and possibly up to 11 months, in the federal Correc- condemning the Parole Commission's refusal to grant my citizens of Newark, and because the offense involved a serious But the U.S. Parole Commission met Aug. 16 and decided tional Institution at Danbury, Conn., after Sept. 6. father parole. (Newark Mayor Kenneth) Gibson compared breach of trust over a substantial period of tune. that "reincarceration is warranted. "I'm having difficulty in seeing merit in (the Addonizio) this case to Watergate, where he noted the president never "Parole at this time would depreciate the seriousness of "You have not presented exceptional mitigating circum- application from a procedural standpoint," Fisher said after served any time at all for his crimes. And my father was the offense and promote disrespect for the law," the com- stances which have occurred since the Jan. 13,1977, decision asking Assistant U.S. Attorney Maryanne J. Desmond if she released by the judge who sentenced him, who felt he had mission said. by the Commission to justify a different decision," the objected to a one-week delay in his decision. served long enough,'' James Addonizio noted. Federal authorities Immediately challenged Barlow's or- commission gave as its explanation for its decision. "The case certainly generates emotion, but I can't con- Addonizio had served 62 months when the late U.S. Dis- der releasing Addonizio, and the Third Circuit Court of Addonizio's Newark attorney, Michael Edelson, argued sider that in making my decision," the West Long Branch trict Court Judge George Barlow ordered him freed from Appeals promptly overruled Barlow, sending Addonizio back yesterday that the commission "made up a new criterion for jurist added. Lewlsburg Federal Prison, Pennsylvania, in April 1(778, to prison. denying parole without even notifying us of the criterion — Fisher last week ordered Addonizio tent to Danbury to saying that he had never intended for Addonizio to serve more But five days later, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered him exceptional mitigating circumstances." serve out the remainder of his sentence, which probably than one-third of his 10-year sentence. released while his case was being reviewed. would be a inaximum of 11 months with time off for good Addonizio's co-defendants, Newark Public Works Director The Third Circuit Court of Appeals ruled'in March 1071 See Decision, page I. The Daily Register VOL. 102 NO. 54 SHREWSBURY, N.J. TUESDAY, AUGUST 28,1979 15 CENTS Confrontation raises questions Ballerina returns home NEW YORK (AP) - A 73Vi-hour showdown lations involving the emigration of Jews, said it The Soviets acknowledged three times that the over ballerina Ludmilla Vlasova's departure from defended Miss Vlasova's freedom to decide where U.S. had a right to Interview Miss Vlasova before the United States could have been settled long she wanted to live. she boarded the Jetliner, a State Department before a compromise finally cleared the way for White House press secretary Jody Powell said official said. her return to Moscow, U.S. and Soviet officials the Incident established a principle that for- "It's quite obvious that U.S. officials could agree. eigners have a right to choose freely whether to have avoided the whole Incident," said Wolff. But they disagreed yesterday on who was to leave the United States. The question then was: Why did U.S. officials blame for the episode, each saying the other was The standoff came at a time when the Carter permit the ballerina, escorted by eight Soviet at fault in the diplomatic stalemate. administration is trying to sell the SALT II arms guards, to board the plant last Friday without And both sides claimed vindication when Miss treaty to some senators who think the president first being questioned by authorities? Vlasova declared she chose to return to the Soviet has been loo soft with the Soviets. "Someone evidently decided they could put Union without her husband, Bolshol Ballet dancer And Rep. Lester Wolff, D-N.Y., a member of one by us," one American official said. Two U.S. Alexander Godunov, who defected last week. the House International Relations Committee, diplomats were en route to New York to talk to Miss Vlasova and 52 other Soviet citizens charged Monday that the U.S. "botched" the Miss Vlasova when word reached the State De- returned to Moscow early today aboard the Aero- affair by letting the ballerina board the plane. partment that she was on the Jet, officials said. flot jetliner detained at Kennedy International The State Department said the Immigration Airport while U.S. authorities sought assurances and Naturalization Service was responsible for that she was leaving voluntarily. seeing that Miss Vlasova was detained. But INS In Moscow, the Soviet news agency Tass said officials said It was up to Pan American World Miss Vlasova had "displayed the feeling of lofty Airways, which acts under contract with Aeroflot civic duty and courage in the face of police for ground services at Kennedy. threats and blackmail" In returning. A spokesman for Pan Am denied that the It did not mention Godunov's defection, the airline had been notified to Intercept the Bolshol most recent In a series of defections by Soviet dancer. ballet stars, Including Mikhail Baryshnikov and U.S. negotiators said the compromise the Sovi- Rudolf Nureyev. ets finally accepted had been proposed on Satur- Miss Vlasova left the United States following a day, when 111 persons were still aboard the plane. BOAT WRECKAGE — Wreackage of Earl Mountbatten's boat "The Shadow V" Is compromise in which U.S. officials were allowed Fifty-nine persons were released during the week- collected from the beach In Mullaghmore yesterday for examination bv bomb to speak with her in the "non-coercive environ- end. experts. Mountbatten died when an explosion ripped through his boat as it crusied In ment" they had demanded. "I have no idea what made them change their Drumcllffe Bay. APPMU President Carter and Soviet President Leonid mind," said Donald McHenry, the chief U.S. Brezhnev reportedly took active roles in the set- negotiator. tlement. A Carter administration official, who declined The New York Times reported today that the to be identified, said the Soviet* apparently knew two national leaders exchanged messages during Miss Vlasova's intentions, and "permitted this to the weekend in an effort to bring the incident to a become a very public confrontation." Mountbatten dies conclusion. The U.S. agreed to let the plane depart after Tass said the United States was guilty of meeting with the ballerina and Soviet officials "crude provocation" aimed at "worsening Sovi- aboard a mobile lounge attached to, but outside et-American relations." It accused the United of, the jet. States of "acts of cruelty" to women and chil- Miss Vlasova was interviewed through an In- in yacht explosion dren aboard the jet.' terpreter. McHenry described her as "rather Soviet negotiator Evgeny Makeyev called the lively, alert and very Informal." He said she had (o Queen Elizabeth II, saying, DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) - ish soldiers, the worst death settlement "a victory of justice," adding, "Our not asked to see her husband or to give him a "The British people give Lord Louis Mountbatten, a toll in a single attack since stand was right from the beginning." .