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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.
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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-.
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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}
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