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Mafia
Heavy security marks beginning of Italy's largest mob trial
Associated Press
PALERMO, Sicily — The largest
Mafia trial in Italian history opened
Monday, with defendants in steel
cages and police escorts for the
judges who will hear charges against
the 474 accused mobsters.
The government hopes the trial,
which includes charges of drug
smuggling and multiple murder, will
mark the turning point in its long
fight against the mob.
Authorities said 115 of the de
fendants were at large, including
most of the top-ranking bosses in
dicted after a three-year investiga
tion by five of Italy’s top investigat
ing magistrates.
The courtroom was built for the
trial at a cost of $ 17 million. The de
fendants are held in 30 steel-barred
cages guarded by armed police offi
cers. About 100 defendants were
present for the trial’s opening.
A reputed leader of the Corleone
faction, Luciano Liggio, sat alone in
Cage 23, dressed in a blue track suit
and white sneakers, smoking a cigar.
In the adjoining cage was Pippo
Calo, called the “grand cashier” of
the Mafia, who allegedly recycled
mob money until his arrest in Rome
last year.
One minute of silence was ob
served in schools, offices and facto
ries throughout Sicily when the trial
began at 10 a.m. Many schools in
Palermo devoted their first classes to
a discussion of the Mafia, which has
been a pervasive influence in Sicily
for centuries.
Prosecutors claim to have some of
the best-documented evidence ever
gathered against the mob, which
they say will mean less reliance than
in past trials on testimony from mob
members turned informants.
Much of the evidence was gath
ered with the aid of a recently passed
law giving authorities wider powers.
It accords them extensive wire
tapping privileges and access to bank
records as a means of tracking down
laundered profits from the multibil-
lion-dollar heroin business centered
on this large island off southern
Italy.
Among the charges against the
defendants are 90 murders and
criminal association involving con
trol of the drug traffic. Four of the
defendants are women, who face rel
atively minor charges such as aiding
and aoetting criminal activity.
Thirty mobsters have become in
formants in the case, but only one
was in the courtroom for the open
ing session.
Among those absent was Tom-
maso Buscetta, a top Mafia figurt
who has been testifying in New York
in the Pizza Connection narcotits
case, so named because drugs wert
distributed through pizza parlors.
Buscetta has lost seven fani
members to the Mafia’s internal
wars, including his daughter Felicias
husband, Giuseppe Genova, who
was slain Dec. 26, 1982.
After presiding Judge Alfonso
Giordano took his seat beneath a
wooden crucifix in the octagonal 1
courtroom, the court swore in45ju
rors. Sixteen are regular panelist'
and the rest are standbys for iht
trial, which is expected to last at leas:
nine months.
5 South African blacks murdered
Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa
— Police said Monday they found
the bodies of five blacks who were
bound, stabbed and burned with
what has become known as the
“necklace” — gasoline-soaked tires
placed around them and set afire.
The killings appeared to be part
of the struggle between rival anti
apartheid groups that differ on how
to fight white-minority rule.
Four of the bodies were found to
gether, with more tires piled on
them to form a funeral pyre, and the
fifth was a short distance away. Press
reports said the men may have been
sentenced to death by unofficial
“people’s courts” operating in black
townships.
Col. Gerrie van Rooyen, police
spokesman for the eastern region
that includes Cape Province, said the
victims were stabbed, their hands
and feet bound with thin wire, then
gasoline-soaked tires were placed
around their bodies and set afire.
The corpses were found on a street
in a section of New Brighton town
ship, outside the industrial center of
Port Elizabeth.
He said the men probably were
killed Sunday.
Their deaths brought the week
end toll from black in-fighting to
seven.
Besutu Ntsheta, a leader of a
small group called Azanian National
Youth Unity, said attackers beat and
hacked two of its members to death
Saturday and abducted several oth
ers. His organization believes only
blacks should fight for black rights.
Ntsheta said he did not know
whether the victims found Monday
were among those kidnapped. Police
said they had not identified the men.
The Youth Unity group broke
from the Azanian People’s Organi
zation, a black consciousness group
that includes Asians and people of
mixed race, known here as “col
oreds,” in its definition of blacks.
Ntsheta said those who attacked
his people were members of the
United Democratic Front, a multira
cial coalition considered the largest
group opposing apartheid, the racial
policy that reserves privilege for
South Africa’s 5 million whites and
denies rights to the 24 million blacks.
The Front has a large following in
the Port Elizabeth area, and its mem
bers have fought those from both
the Azanian People’s Organization
and the breakaway group.
Edgar Ngoyi, the United Demo
cratic Front’s leader in the area, was
out in the townships Monday and
unreachable for comment, a spokes
man at his office said. Front leaders
have appealed in the past for a halt
to the in-fighting, which they say
serves the white minority.
Ashraf Karodia, regional spokes
man for the Azanian People’s Orga
nization, said his group was not in
volved in the necklace slayings or in
the attacks on the Youth Unity mem
bers.
The necklace has become a ritual
method of killing blacks accused of
collaborating with the white govern
ment, including policemen and
members of township councils, dur
ing the 17 months of anti-apartheid
violence in which more than 1,100
people have died.
Authorities say about one-third of
the victims were killed by other
blacks, and the rest by security
forces.
In Jouberton township, outside
Klerksdorp west of Johannesburg,
thousands of residents stayed home
from work to protest tne police
shooting of a youth Saturday after a
riot victim’s funeral. A reporter at
the scene said young men threw
stones at buses until police arrived.
Group questions use of tax incentives
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Forty-four
big profitable corporations used tax
incentives for investment to wipe out
their federal income taxes during
President Reagan’s first term, but ac
tually cut jobs and spending for new
plants and equipment, a private re
search group said Monday.
On the other hand, said Citizens
for Tax Justice, 43 companies that
paid at least one-third of their prof
its in federal taxes increased invest
ment by 21 percent and boosted
their employment rolls by 4 percent
from 1981 through 1984.
The report questioned the value
of the estimated $120 billion a year
worth of incentives that the federal
tax laws give corporations in an ef
fort to spur investment and job cre
ation. The House, in passing a major
tax-overhaul bill last December, re
duced some of the incentives, and
Reagan is now demanding that the
Senate restore some of them if the
legislation is to win his support.
Robert S. McIntyre, director of
federal tax policy at Citizens for Tax
Justice, said in releasing the report,
“Our ‘riverboat gamble’ with throw
ing money at corporations simply
has not panned out.”
“Corporate tax ‘incentives’ have
been a huge failure at stimulating
more investment or jobs,” he said.
Citizens for Tax Justice, a liberal
oriented group which engages in re
search and lobbying, is financed by
labor unions, churches and various
“public-interest” organizations.
Pope's tour
of India
ends amid
protests
Associated Press
BOMBAY, India — Pope John
Paul II ended an exhausting, 10-
day pilgrimage across India on
Monday with a call for peace and
unity, as Hindu militants tried to
burn him in effigy.
The 65-year-old pontiff,
speaking to more than 100,000
Christians at a youth rally at Shi-
vaji Park, praised India’s rich
spiritual and cultural heritage
and called on Christians to try to
heal the nation’s many sectarian
and communal divisions.
John Paul, leader of the
world’s 840 million Roman Cath
olics, said the challenge facing
Christians was to reject “all dis
crimination based on race, reli
gion, sex, social condition or lan
guage groups.”
Before ne began his final
speech in India, about 30 Hindu
fanatics shouted “Pope go home!’ 1
and “The pope is an agent of the |
CIA!” They said he had no busi
ness visiting secular, predomi
nantly Hindu India.
Police rounded up militants as
they tried to set fire to an effigv
of the pope and broke up the
protest quickly, without violence.
The protest was organized by
right-wing Hindus, who staged
demonstrations upon the popes
arrival in New Delhi on Feb. 1.
Of India’s 750 million people
Christians make up 3 percent and j
Hindus about 83 percent. There
are about 24 million Christians in
India, 13 million of them Catho
lics.
New Haitian council promises reforms
Associated Press
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti —The
head of Haiti’s interim government
pledged Monday to share wealth
fairly in that nation, whose people
were ground into poverty during
three decades that made the Duva-
liers and their friends fabulously
rich.
Lt. Gen. Henri Namphy, presi
dent of the six-man interim govern
ment council, said at swearing-in
ceremonies for the new Cabinet that
there will be free elections by univer
sal suffrage and a new, “liberal” con
stitution to create a “real and work
ing democracy.”
Haiti’s last free election was the
one that brought Francois “Papa
Doc” Duvalier to power in 1957. His
son Jean-Claude, who succeeded at
age 19 when “Papa Doc” died in
1971, fled with his family and aides
Friday in a U.S. military plane and
now is in France.
The remarks by Namphy, who is
the army chief of staff, followed a
weekend orgy of celebration and vi
olence. Haitians rioted, sacked
homes owned by the departed dicta
tor and his lieutenants, and hunted
down members of the dreaded Du
valier private militia, the Tonton
Macoutes.
As many as 300 people were killed
over the weekend, including mem
bers of the Tonton Macoutes who
were hacked and beaten to death.
Residents pointed out the homes
or hiding places of suspected mili
tiamen, shouting: “Long live the
army! Down with the Macoutes!”
Namphy announced the dissolu
tion of the Tonton Macoutes, and
asked the people to stop attacking its
members.
He called in his speech “for a fair
division of the national wealth” in
this poorest of the Western Hemi
sphere nations, most of whose peo
ple earn less than $150 a year.
The weekend outburst did not re
move reminders of the Duvalien
Hundreds of schools are named fot
Jean-Claude, there are three Jean
Claude Duvalier streets in the capital
alone, the government-owned com
munications satellite station bears his
name, and visitors arrive at the Fran
cois Duvalier International Airport
The new council ordered on Sun
day that all privately owned firearms
be turned in at police stations. The
59-member National Assembly has
been dissolved, the constitutions
pended and the council says it
rule by decree for the time being.
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