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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.”
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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.”