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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1981
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Underworld figure
shot from fleeing van
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BRIDGEPORT, Conn. —
Frank Piccolo, indicted for con
spiring to extort money from Las
Vegas entertainers, was gunned
down Saturday outside a tele
phone booth on a downtown
street.
Piccolo, 58, was admitted to St.
Vincent’s Hospital with a gunshot
wound to the chest at 2:50 p.m.
and pronounced dead 25 minutes
later, a hospital spokeswoman
said.
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Police said he was shot by
someone in a red van that police
later chased through the streets of
Bridgeport to suburban Trumbull
and Stratford in southwest Con
necticut before losing it.
Police said they had no sus
pects.
Piccolo and Guido “Bull” Peno-
si, 51, of Beverly Hills, Calif.,
were indicted last June by a U.S.
District Court grand jury in New
Haven on charges they conspired
to extort money from Wayne
Newton and Lola Palana and her
attorney and business manager
Mark Moreno, all of Las Vegas.
Piccolo and Penosi were be
lieved to be cousins related by
marriage.
They were indicted June 11 fol
lowing federal electronic surveill
ance of Piccolo’s home and of the
Backstage Restaurant in Bridge
port.
The indictment was returned
by a grand jury probing racketeer
ing, cocaine trafficking and illegal
gambling.
Newton, a singer who popula
rized “Danke Schoen” testified
last November before the grand
jury.
The indictment alleged Piccolo
and Penosi conspired to “obtain
money and other valuable rights
and interests” from Newton and
Miss Falana by “threats of physical
violence” and by using their pow
er in the underworld.
Piccolo’s body was to be re
moved to the chief state medical
examiner’s office in Farmington
for an autopsy, the hospital
spokeswoman said.
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through southern Florid
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MIAMI — An epidemic of a vir
al form of pinkeye new to the west
ern hemisphere is sweeping
southern Florida and a doctor says
it will soon spread.
“It’s just a matter of time before
it spreads more profusely. The
kids that come in say ‘everybody
in my school or everybody in my
project has got it,” said Dr. Wil
liam Culbertson, assistant profes
sor of opthamology at the Bascom
Palmer Eye Institute in Miami.
He said the institute has tre
ated at least 400 cases since last
Friday and private doctors have
treated many more.
People afflicted with the dis
ease experience “lid swelling and
a red eye with tearing or watering
and light sensitivity,” Culbertson
said. “If you’ve got it, you’ll defi
nitely know it. It doesn’t produce
just a little irritation — it produces
a lot.
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Today is Monday, Sept. 21, p? 3
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English author and histo!
H.G. Wells was born on Sept
1886.
On this date in history
In 1893, the first sui
American-made,
operated motor car appeard 1
the streets of Springfield,
was designed and builtbyCk 1
and Frank Duryea.
In 1938, an estimated uwr
pie were killed by a hurricanes
battered the coast of New El
land.
In 1976, former Chilean f(
ign Minister Orlando Leteto 1
killed when a bomb explodd
his car on a street in Washing
DC.
In 1977, President &
announced the resignation
Budget Director Bert Lance
at the same time defendedLary
honor and integrity. Lance,
ter appointee, had been
of a series of illegal acts in banfa
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author H. G. Wells said, “Hn"
history becomes more and nit* 1
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