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d this Pumpkin si ‘y whkk i°ut"y ;d ‘ted to dug about s to l hen don! nately H ,^* s Pmtctti THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1980 Hit man turns informer, Man shot wife in self defense testifies against old 'family' Page 7 United Press International NEW YORK — An admitted mob hit man and one- a, i Iioid [time organized crime boss in Los Angeles testified Tuesday there are 20 cities in the United States with “family” links to the secret organization known as La oseninam Cosa Nostra. James “Jimmy the Weasel” Fratianno testified as a key prosecution witness at the U.S. District Court trial “of Frank “Funzi” Tied of Brooklyn, the reputed boss of the late Vito Genovese crime family. Fratianno told a hushed audience about joining La Cosa Nostra, about the ritual crucifix and gun on the table, the drawing of blood and the kiss on the cheek of the family members. “You have to be Italian,” he said. “I was told when I joined, ‘You come in alive and go out dead. There’s no other way.’” Tieri, 76, frail and seriously ill, sat listening to an old friend turned government informer whose information led to his indictment. Tieri is the first person ever to be tried on charges specifying he headed an organized crime family. Fratianno spoke casually about his part in nine West Coast murders. Apparently indifferent, he told about the inside operations of the syndicate and listed the cities with Cosa Nostra families. United Press International JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Eddie King loved his wife although she beat him and stabbed him, and the state says it will not prosecute him for killing her because he was a battered husband. Assistant State Attorney Kurt Simpson dropped second-degree murder charges against King, 47, after an investigation revealed the beatings he took during the four years he spent with his wife, Betty. “What we have in essence is a battered hus band,” said Simpson. King, he said, killed to save his own life but never stopped loving his wife. The assistant public defender said he learned: — On Aug. 17, 1978, Mrs. King threw potash into her husband’s face. — On Oct. 28, 1978, she was arrested for twice stabbing her husband in the back during an argument in a bar. King refused to press charges. — On Aug. 4, 1979, King was admitted to Jacksonville’s University Hospital with stab wounds in the back, arm and face. “She had taken a carpet tile knife and come down across his face,” said Simpson. “Once she left him lying in a parking lot with a knife in his back,” said McGuiness. “She had shot at him on a number of prior occasions.” Much of the information was provided by Mrs. King’s mother, who told Simpson her daughter’s death was “inevitable.” The 15-page investigation report showed Mrs. King habitually carried a weapon. King had be gun carrying a gun for self defense. The day Mrs. King was shot to death, King and his wife argued on the porch of a friend’s house while others were inside. Mrs. King had been drinking, the investigation showed. No one saw the shooting but those inside the house heard the shot. “He stated she reached into her purse and he feared she was going for her gun so he shot her one time,” said Simpson. King was arrested on a charge of aggravated battery. When his wife died at a hospital 11 days later, the charge was changed to second-degree murder. Announcing dismissal of the charges, Simpson said, “I think our job as prosecutors is not only to try to convict those who are guilty, but to also investigate and determine those who are not.” ) S39' :,n d 1.89 5.19 2.09 SAFEWAY You Money! W Coke, Tab, Sprite or Sugar Free Sprite DAIRY-DEU FOODS! S&F BEV. CO. - EL PASO, TEXAS Sharp Chunk Cheese Best Buy ^ Random ^ Weight Pkgs. Biscuits »“* Margarine Im. 1 " 1 ’ Gibson Wine 3 Liter Btl. 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PRICES EFFECTIVE THURSDAY THRU WEDNESDAY, OCT. 30TH THRU NOV. 5TH, 1980 IN BRYAN - COLLEGE STATION QUANTITY RIGHTS RESERVED SAFEWAY and a little bit more Musicians approve contract United Press International NEW YORK — Orchestra musi cians ratified a new contract with the Metropolitan Opera, and negotiations began with other un ions that must settle before the Met can begin its 1980-81 season. Members of Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians ratified the four-year contract Mon day by a vote of 78 to 11, with one abstention and six absent. The Met continued its negotia tions with 16 other unions, which traditionally have followed the lead of the orchestra. The musicians’ dispute with the Met over working conditions had caused the opera company to cancel its season last month. Met officials met Monday with representatives of the American Guild of Musical Artists, which rep resents 400 singers, dancers and chorus members in the New York company. A Met spokesman said, “Were asking season subscribers to hold onto their tickets until they can be notified as to arrangements.” The key provision in the dispute be tween musicians and management was scheduling, with the musicians demanding a reduction in their work week from five performances a week to four, plus rehearsals. Under the proposed contract, the musicians will get the four- per formance week, but will be paid less for their regular rehearsals. The schedule would mean no additional expenditure for the opera company. The four-year agreement pro vides 9 percent increases in each of the first two years, and 8V2 percent in each of the last two. The musicians are now paid $525 per performance week and also are paid for rehear sals. A union spokesman said the un ion hoped it could return to work by Nov. 3 and the season opening could come as early as Nov. 17. Ian Smith: all voting invites chaos United Press International TORONTO — Ian Smith, who led the rebel Rhodesian white minority regime for 14 years, says the right to vote should be restrict ed, at least to people who have “the ability to fill in the ballot form.” The former prime minister, who now leads the minority Rhodesian Front in black majority-ruled Zim babwe, called universal suffrage a “clear invitation to chaos” and said although it would be difficult to take voting rights away from people, new countries should restrict the franchise. At one point in his speech Mon day to 600 people at a $75-a-plate lunch in Toronto sponsored by Uni versal Speakers, a private organiza tion, Smith equated universal suf frage with “sheer madness.” Smith said he opposed the “one- man, one-vote” system because it put voting power in the hands of people who were least able to ap preciate the process and who “don’t deserve such a privilege. ” Smith, who never referred to his homeland as Zimbabwe in the speech calling it instead “our coun try,” said he preferred a system of “meritocracy” in which voting was restricted to intelligent, industrious and law-abiding adults. “Any system which believes and practices that your most inefficient citizen, your most undesirable, un principled and corrupt citizen should have as much say in the gov ernment of your country as your most efficient and your most prin cipled citizen is a clear invitation to chaos,” he said. Asked how to judge the qualifica tions of citizens, he said there were many tests and one of the simplest restrictions was voters must “have the ability to fill in a (ballot) form.” He said when whites arrived in Rhodesia more than 100 years ago, the land was undeveloped and al most uninhabited and “was one of the few parts of the world in which the wheel had not even evolved.” Blacks, he said, prospered and multiplied under white rule and many visitors still say “they see in our country the happiest black faces they have seen anywhere in this world.”