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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1979
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Mob might cause high price
United Press International
President Carter recently com
plained about the great difference
between wholesale food prices and
the final cost to consumers. Many
law enforcement officials believe
part of the difference is the price
being paid to the mob.
The payoff comes in many forms
— kickbacks for labor peace; hijack
ing, which means higher insurance
rates for the legitimate businesses,
and even mob control of some distri
bution points.
“Somebody is going to have to pay
and you know as well as I do who’s
going to,” says an FBI agent. “It’s
going to come out of the consumers’
pocket. ”
A classic organized crime method
of gaining control of a business is
through loansharking.
A businessman who for some
reason cannot get a loan through
legitimate means is approached by
someone who offers to provide the
money at interest rates of 2 to 3 per
cent per week.
Over a period of a year, the weekly
interest payments — called the
“vigorish” or “vig,” from the Russian
for winning or profit — exceed 100
percent.
money from loansharks believing
that with a little boost they can grab
the gold ring,” says Special Agent
John Morris of the FBI’s Boston
office. “But then they find they can’t
make their payments and soon the
alternative is to let the mob in for a
piece of the action. ”
Genovese crime family. a „
The General Tutino.said,
of the top heroin supplj ersi .,
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take over legitimatp L ■ ’I
through loansharking.
Failure to pay a mo b l oans |
also can mean death.
“Some businessmen, particularly
when money is tight, will borrow
Recently, 12 men — including
John “Buster” Ardito, the reputed
No. 2 man in the New York City Vito
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CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. —
Marine Pfc. Robert R. Garwood
emerged from Vietnam last March,
ISVz years after disappearing outside
Da Nang. Today he faces survivors of
Vietnamese POW camps who have
branded him a traitor.
The Marine Corps is opening the
military equivalent of a grand jury
hearing to determine if Garwood
should face a court-martial. Unlike a
civilian hearing, however, military
authorities generally allow reporters
at the proceedings.
Fifteen witnesses, most of them
former POWs, were expected to give
testimony supporting charges that
Garwood, 33, turned on his own
countrymen and collaborated with
the Vietnamese.
Garwood’s side of the story re-
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mains a secret. His attorney has not
yet decided if Garwood will testify,
but says his client is eager to tell his
story.
"Bobby has an almost uncontroll
able desire to give what he calls an
accounting to the American people, ”
said attorney Dermot Foley.
Word of Garwood first came out of
Vietnam in 1968, three years after he
disappeared, when freed POWs told
of an American who helped interro
gate and guard prisoners. One report
said Garwood was once seen in the
jungle, armed and walking a patrol
with communist troops.
T he formal charges againstk
elude desertion, absence without
thorization, soliciting Ameri
troops to throw down theirweap
accepting a position with anew
army, attempting to caUseinsuh*
nation, and attacking fellow
both verbally and physically.
If found guilty, he couldre«
the death penalty.
Garwood, who spends hiss
working as a clerk at this spmi |
and isolated Marine base in east: I
North Carolina, maintains his a
cence.
Health official tries to stof
Cajuns' Christinas bonfm
United Press International
NEW ORLEANS — Claiming his
motive is health and not a desire to
be a Christmas Scrooge, the state
director of the American Lung Asso
ciation vows to snuff out a French
cajun tradition of lighting bonfires to
illuminate a path for "Papa Noel.”
Thousands of cajun children living
along the Mississippi River and on
the banks of bayous throughout
South Louisiana believe the French
Santa Claus rides a pirougue — a
flatbottomed, shallow draft boat —
pulled by magical alligators to deliv
er gifts, a local adaptation of the more
traditional sleigh and reindeer.
To aid Papa Noel on his journey,
children and their parents build
huge bonfires along the river levee
each year and light them after dark
on Christmas Eve illuminating the
river’s curves with thousandsoll
But Finley W. Raymond, ei
tive director of the American Li
Association of Louisiana,
tires, plastics and chemicallytrei
wood burned in the bonfires*!
discharging poisonous chemi
into the air, and he said he WJ
court action to forbid the light®
fires this year unless local
ments took steps to remove
her and plastic items from thep>
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