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Wednesday, FebruaryTHE 27,1985 J3CL NEWS Vol. 67 Issue 87 ■■■■■■ Mafia charged Blacks urged to unite New York families accused by Deborah Schmook staff reporter NEW YORK (AP) - The five reputed leaders of the city's Mafia families were rounded up overnight and charged The first black to enroll at lav in a federal indictment with being the ''ruling the University of Mississippi a criminal enterprise that deals in murder, labor told University students yes- racketeering and extortion. terday that blacks still need Officials predicted the federal indictment would encourage to support each other. crime victims to cooperate with police and would touch off a "Black people are not violent struggle within the families. meeting the responsibilities "This is a bad day, probably the worst ever, for the Mafia," of looking after themselves said U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani. Never before, be said, and own Kind," said James bad a federal indictment charged so many bosses. Meredith, while speaking at FBI Director William Webster said. "The ruling body of the the University last night to about 250 people in the Educa- most powerful organized crime elements in the United tion Building. States... has now Been brought to the bar of Justice." Meredith, now a visiting professor of Afro-American THE INDICTMENT NAMED Anthony "Fat Tony" Sa- ■todies at the University of lerno, Paul Castellano, Anthony "Tony Ducks" CoraUo. Cincinnati, said whites are Gennaro "Jerry Lang" Langella and Phillip Colombo and changing their negative atti- Bonanno crime families, respectively. Also indicted: Aniello tudes toward blacks. "O'Neill" Dellacroce, reputed underboss of the Gambino family; Salvatore "Tom Mix" Santoro, an alleged Lucchese "WHITE CIVILIZATION underboss; and Christopher "Christy Tick" Furnari, de- no longer feels the need for scribed as Lucchese "consigliere," or counselor. cheap black labor and whites "There will be struggles for control" which will "take an no longer bold blacks down. interesting twist with IBs indictment," Webster said. "Being "But they feel no pressure at the top isn't always the best." to boost blacks up," he added. Assistant U.S. Attorney General Steven Trott said "now is Meredith, who also is presi- the time" for the mob's victims to shed their fear of reprisal dent of Meredith Enterprises, based in Jackson, Miss., and step forward to help authorities. wants to see black American "We believe the (Mafia's) code of silence is virtually a families accomplish the fol- thing of the past," Webster said. lowing goals: But Giuliani said that although the indictment was "a very • Own their own home; major blow ... we shouldn't call it the death of the mob* • Teach their children to be because there was "more work to do." self-sufficient by age 13; •Help another black family THE DEFENDANTS WERE arrested overnight at homes, accomplish the above goals; businesses, prisons and hospitals. Webster said three of those • Help at least one black Afri- indicted had checked into hospitals. can family in some way; The indictment charged that commission members autho- • Know more of their own family history and teach it to rized the admission or murder of members, settled inter- their children; family disputes and coordinated deals between families. • Own other land in addition In 1979, the commission allegedly authorized the murder of to their own. Carmine Galante, who led a faction in the Bonanno family. Two years later, the commission allegedly allowed the MEREDITH SAID many killings of three Bonanno family members and the attempted blacks do not realize the va- murder of a fourth. lue of owning land. "America is a capitalistic The indictment said a group of bosses, referring to itself as society and is going to be a BG Newi/Jos Phabn "The Club," operated a multi-million dollar extortion scheme capitalistic society as long as James Meredith which dominates the concrete pouring industry in greater it remains America," he said. New York. "Anyone not owning property as small restaurants, laun- thinking that these small nance larger enterprises, will not keep up or get dromats and corner stores, businesses did not signify suc- Meredith said blacks lost Charged in connection with the scheme was Ralph Scopo. a ahead," he said. Meredith said. But he blames cess. their businesses entirely reputed soldier in the Colombo family and president of the Blacks used to have many the government for changing By offering blacks govern- when the new bigger busi- Concrete Workers District Council of the Laborers Interna- small profitable ' the mindsets of Macks into ment business loans to fl- i failed. tional Union of North America. Crimes seasonal Right to die bill introduced by Carole Hornberger creases in cold weather," Ash Staff reporter said. He explained that in the win- 'Living-Will' bill addresses doctors'and patients' rights : As the temperature rises out- ter months, bar adtivity de- side, an increase in criminal creases and there are less activity is also expected, people on foot and more in vehi- by Danielle Fischer The "Uving-WuT bill pro- request his or her only obliga- imminent in their Judgment In according to Galen Ash, Bowling cles. This cuts down on "rowdi- staff reporter vides that when a patient re- tion under the bill is to refrain that case, the bill would not be Green city chief of police. neas" and vandalism, be said. quests further treatment be from preventing transfer of the operative and the physicians Such problems as loud par- In winter, windows are closed. A bill that would allow a ter- withheld or discontinued, by patient, David McCalmont, would be cleared from legal ties, vandalism, theft and possi- keeping In the loud noise of minally ill patient the right to written or oral directive or by president for the Association for ble rapes are magnified In parties. During the summer refuse life-sustaining devices drawing up a living will, physi- Freedom to Die, said. Robert Nettle, D-Bar- wanner weather because most months, when the windows are while granting legal immunity cians and medical institutions According to the Association berton, is the primary sponsor of people stay inside during the open, the noise is more appar- to physicians and hospitals would be legally protected In for Freedom to Die, physicians the bill in the Ohio House of colder months, be said. ent which honor the request has honoring the request who do not wish to carry out Representatives. "Traditionally, crime de- • See Crime, page 4. been re-introduced to the Ohio If the attending physician their patients' instructions can Legislature. chooses not to honor such a claim the patient's death is not • See Death, page 3. Ethiopia is starving Editor's note: This is the the majority of those people are children under seven and the Brat in a three-part aeries on have fled to the labor camps, he elderly - those over the age of SO. the situation in Ethiopia. said. The average life expectancy of a person there is 47. by Benjamin Marrtaon "The media shows only what This is not the first time Ethio- ■ews editor it can get to. They can't get to pia has faced famine; the coun- the people who are fleeing," try faced one from 1973-75. : There are 35 million starving Seavoy said. And those who do Seavoy said it was entirely pre- people In Ethiopia. People are flee usually do not make it to the dictable that the current famine fleeing the villages where they refugee camps. would occur. The last famine In have spent the majority of their Ethiopia claimed the lives of Uves in hope of attaining food 200,000 people. and water at refugee camps. The experts predict a larger Their food supply has run out Ethiopia number will die this time. Some they have resorted to con- famine six million of the 35 million in suming their future-the seeds Ethiopia are threatened by star- far next year's crop. vation - 200 are dying daily. "They (Ethiopians) have George Tanber, a reporter for faced this before, but they've the Toledo Blade, spent six literally re-programmed them- weeks in Ethiopia. In a recent selves into more famines by two article In the newspaper's mag- things: continuing to practice azine, Tanber said "ft was hor- high fertility (four to six chil- rific, sad. ■1fr*^flnfl.. dren per family), and engaging : Many believe they have seen in minimal amounts of labor arid what H?s like in Ethiopia via the cultivation." national television networks, but The many years of drought Ron Seavoy said the media has have pushed the desert south- hit only the "tip of the iceberg." ward at a rate of 93 miles per Seavoy, a history professor at year. The once-fertile land has the University, spent II months become a desert. Twenty-four in India. He wrote the book "MANY OF the people who African countries are currently "Famine in Peasant Societies," flee ate on the way.