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Page 14/The Battalion/Wednesday, February 27, 1985 in t.rni.i arViiiVfiiiiiiii Shift over, driver gets long rest Associated Press DALLAS — Fire officials have dismissed a paramedic who stopped by a lire station to pick up his re placement while transporting a heart patient, a department spokeswoman said. 1 he patient, Laverne Allen, 57, is comatose and in critical condition at Fal kland Memorial Hospital, a hos pital spokesman said Tuesday. 1 he woman suffered a heart at tack during the Feb. 14 trip after the ambulance switched drivers during the journey, of ficials said. The trip took about 40 minutes and was impeded by rush-hour traf fic, authorities said. The paramedic, whom officials declined to identify, stopped at a fire station because his shift had ended, a department spokeswoman said. “A fire department internal af fairs investigation found that he (the paramedic) violated departmental policy,” said J.J. Howe, a fire depart ment spokeswoman. “The fire- lighter did not put the needs of the patient above his personal needs and handicapped the transportation of that patient.” Fhe paramedic, 29, whom Howe declined to identify, had worked for the department for six years. The complaint was the first against him, Howe said. Allen’s daughter, Patricia Finch, said she called for an ambulance af ter her mother had trouble breath ing and began vomiting. Finch said she-explained to the paramedic that her mother had a history of heart problems, including four heart at tacks. But once they left her east Dallas home, Finch said she realized the ambulance was not going in the right direction. Instead of going to the hospital, it stopped at a fire station about 12 blocks from her house. While at the station, the driver took four minutes to switch w'ith his replacement, said Burt Vader, an at torney representing Finch. Slouch By Jim Earle “If they want support for raising tuition, they should charge us not by the hours we take, but by the hours we pass. ” Mafia families' 'ruling body' Five leaders indicted Associated Press NEW YORK — The five reputed leaders of the city’s Mafia families were rounded up overnight and charged Tuesday in a federal indict ment with being the “ruling body” of a criminal enterprise that deals in murder, labor racketeering and ex tortion. Officials predicted the federal in dictment would encourage crime victims to cooperate with police and would touch off a violent struggle within the families. Three other alleged Mafia leaders also were indicted: Aniello “O’Neill” Dellacroce, reputed underboss of the Gambino family; Salvatore “Tom Mix” Santoro, an alleged Luc- chese underboss; and Christopher “Christy Tick” Furnari, described as Lucchese “consigliere,” or coun selor. mission or murder of membenjj tied inter-family disputes i coordinated deals between fani “There will be struggles for con trol” which will “take an interesting twist with this indictment,” Webster said. “Being at the top isn’t always the best." In 1979, the commissionallejs authorized the murder of Cam Galante, who led a faction in the) nanno family. Two years later,] commission allegedly allowed i killings of three Bonanno fd members and the attempted mini of a fourth. I “This is a bad day, probably the worst ever, for the Mafia,” said U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani. Never before, he said, had a federal indict- 1 lie indictment also said tU group of bosses referrinjpoiisdi] More jobs in 1985 ment charged so many bosses. The indictment, which also named four other men, said a mob “commission” oversaw Mafia busi ness. FBI Director William Webster said, “The ruling body of the most powerful organized crime elements in the U.S. ... has now been brought to the bar of justice.” Assistant U.S. Attorney General Steven Trott said “now is the time” for the mob’s victims to shed their fear of reprisal and step forward to help authorities. ‘AVe believe the silence is virtually past,” Webster saici. I he Club” operated a multimi dollar extortion scheme whichd(j nates the concrete jxniringind ildi. 80 No. greater New York ! Mafia’s) code of a thing of the Charged in connection will scheme was Ralph Scope, a re^ soldier in the Colombo famih president of the Concrete W( th it although very major Associated Press Finch said she is relieved the para medic was fired'. “ I his way I know it won’t happen t< > someone else with this same driv er,” she said. This year’s college graduates should not have quite as tough a time finding a job as last year’s graduates did. Of the companies responding to this year’s Changing Times’jobs sur vey, the vast majority report they will hire more or at least as many grad uates this year compared with last year. Only about 6 percent indicate their hiring goals will be down. Last year 18 percent expected a decrease. Engineering graduates again top the lists of corporate and govern ment recruiters with 57 percent. For the first time in a number of years the need for engineers doesn’t far outstrip demand for graduates in other academic disciplines: 55 per cent of the companies listed are looking for computer science grad uates; 54 percent want business, marketing and economics grad uates; and 50 percent need account ing graduates. Significantly, the demand for lib eral arts graduates is up in this year’s survey. At about 21 percent, it is al most equal to the demand for physi cal science graduates. At the bottom of this year’s de mand index in our survey are math graduates, with only 18 percent re porting a need. While the job outlook for new graduates is the most encouraging in years, voices of caution can be heard. Jack Fowler, director of employ ment for the Illinois Farm Bureau in Bloomington, III., advises college graduates to be aggressive in their job searches. Each year the percent age of college graduates in the American work force reaches a re cord high. However, education will pay dividends in the long run, he said. Three-quarters of the companies in the listing report that the salaries they will be offering 1985 graduates The indictment named Anthony “Fat Tony” Salerno, Paul Castellano, Anthony “Tony Ducks” Corallo, Gennaro “Jerry Lang” Langella and Phillip “Rusty” Rastelli as heads of the Genovese, Gambino, Lucchese, Colombo and Bonanno crime fami lies, respectively. But Giuliani said the indictment was blow ... we shouldn’t call it the of the mob” because there “more work to do." District Council of the laborei lernational Union of North ^ •ath was The defendants were arrested overnight at homes, businesses, pris ons and hospitals. Webster said three of those indicted had checked into hospitals. The indictment charged that com mission members authorized the ad- If convicted ol racketeering,! of the defendants would faceau mum of 20 years in prison, counts ol extortion against eac the defendants except Rastelliol .i maximum of 20 years per oik-j-. i , . / • TMimorsnott while two counts of acceptmeaB Fi , s .■/!! a two n,i payoffs, again involving a but• ’ tali, carry a max.mum of o« J r “T'T each. I ByJ® War criminal linked to drug St Associated Press will top last year’s offers, many by at least tne expected amount of infla tion. WASHINGTON — Nazi war criminal Dr. Josef Mengele was in volved in drug trafficking while he moved among South American countries during the 1970s, accord ing to declassified CIA documents released Tuesday by two senators. The documents were heavily cen sored and were unsubstantiated, but they painted an intriguing picture of the purported movements of the most wanted World War II criminal still at large. Included among the documents was a report that in 1973, “Israel ter rorists” beat to death a former Ger man soldier in Paraguay in the mis taken belief he was Mengele. T he man’s wife “lost portions of one of her ears and her stomach was cut open” in the attack, the documents said. The d ocumenis were released at a news conference by Sens. Alfonse D’Amato, R-N.Y., and Arlen Spec ter, R-Pa., who have l>een active in the recently intensified hunt for Mengele. Mengele, who would be 73 if still alive, was known as the "Angel of Death" at the Auschwitz death camp, where he conducted a horrific series of experiments on twins and other children. He is wanted by West Ger many on war crimes charges. Following reports that the U.S. Army may have detained Men shortly after World War II, The " tice Department announced month that it was undertakin search to find Mengele. Thete no charges against Mengele p in tlie United Stales. Specter and D’Amato criticii the past inaction of the UnitedSta and released a letter to Secreun State George Shultz urging il South American and Western Em pean governments be asked to“i operate fully” in the Mengele him The senators also criticized id they called a “lack of initiative’ the part of the CIA to followup reports and rumors about} he State L fik college tu Bn now is by Ivras, tuiliot ■dent Gove Sidy Group. ■Two tuition RiMilered by fjjation Comm ■The Delco Idp. Wilhelm Bs for resid flased to $8 | ■ 1985-85 sc |12 per hour I ■r. The per Braised an ud mnl it reachec Currently, i n iPer semeste he Delco 1 klips chi A Legend in Sound' KG4 SPEAKERS kg L O mi O fl heresy FREE with Demo Registration KG4 kg 4 AUDIO Drawing March 8 707 Texas Ave 696-5719 lirst Fed era First Nation; Homestead . Republic Ba jfexana Nati United Ban! Sniversity N Western Nai Prazos Valle fc- - -- Sun, S( JEditor’s n fcs than i ivc plant) ir Fipv. 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