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    Thursday, November 20, 1986/The Battalion/Page 11
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Bombing injures 35 in department store
I®MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A bomb hid
den in a shopping bag blew up Wednesday in
^ / / i a department store packed with Christmas
' ‘ shoppers, injuring about 35 people. A few
i hours earlier a prominent friend of Defense
LM; Minister Juan Ponce Enrile was shot to death
in an ambush.
■President Corazon Aquino said on tele
vision that the escalating violence was directed
at her. She vowed to retaliate once she knows
“which forces are with me.”
'3 A6ArMP°hce said a homemade time bomb ex-
"fiOAOHin ploded at a ground-floor counter in the Shoe-
w..., fj^ rt Department Store about 7:20 p.m. No
V ■ t,u P claimed responsibility, and police re-
' Hrled no arrests.
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Hospital sources said about 35 people were
treated for cuts and bruises but no one was se
riously injured.
A half-hour before the blast, an unknown
assailant tossed a grenade into the crowded
balcony of a movie theater two blocks from
the department store, but the device did not
explode.
Earlier Wednesday, David Puzon, 65, a
right-wing businessman and friend of Enrile,
was killed along with his driver and a factory
manager by a band of gunmen dressed as
women 10 miles northeast of Manila. Two se
nior police officers were killed in separate am
bushes.
In the Puzon slaying, gunmen sprayed the
businessman’s car with automatic fire, killing
him and one of his factory managers.
Puzon’s slaying followed last week’s killing
of Rolando Olalia, a leftist whose death his
supporters blamed on “fascist elements”
whom they said were allied with Enrile. Left
ists planned a mass march through Manila to
day as part of Olalia’s funeral.
No arrests were reported in any of the
cases, but the military command blamed the
Communist New People’s Army rebels in the
Puzon slayings.
A series of shootings and explosions
around Manila since mid-October has fueled
fears of a military coup by dissidents linked to
Enrile, who has criticized negotiations be
tween Aquino’s representatives and the Com
munist insurgents.
The Communist-led National Democratic
Front broke off the talks after Olalia’s assassi
nation, but government negotiators said the
president told them Wednesday to reach a
cease-fire this month in the 17-year-old insur
gency.
During her televised interview, taped
Wednesday before the department store
bombing, Aquino said she was uncertain who
was behind the escalating violence.
“I am convinced there is a time to do bat
tle,” she said, “but I want to be good and re
ady, to know which forces are with me. When
I fight, I want to be sure I will win.”
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BOSTON (AP) — Smokers
who cut back tend to compensate
by smoking more intensely, trip
ling the tar and nicotine they in
hale from each cigarette and un
dercutting their efforts to
improve their health, a study
says.
People can cut back from two
packs to 15 cigarettes a day but
only slightly reduce their intake
of the toxins in tobacco smoke,
the study found.
“Our advice is that if they can,
the best thing to do is quit en
tirely,” said Dr. Peyton Jacob III,
a co-author of the study.
“The next best thing is to cut
down . . . and if they could, switch
to an ultra-low yield brand,” he
said.
In addition, he said, they
should concentrate on avoiding
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The study suggests that by
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than they ordinarily smoke.
This explains why people try
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to cut back but fail to kick the
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“Our findings do not contra
dict the proposition that smoking
fewer cigarettes per day poses less
risk to health than smoking more
cigarettes,” they wrote. “How
ever, the magnitude of the bene
fit from reduced exposure to tox
ins was much less than expected.”
They also cautioned that their
data do not apply to all smokers
who are trying to quit. Some of
them may consciously restrain the
intensity of their puffing.
“However,” they added, “our
data are relevent to patients who
are asked by their physicians to
smoke fewer cigarettes.”
At the American Cancer So
ciety, Dr. Lawrence Garfinkel
noted that the study was con
ducted under carefully controlled
laboratory conditions, not under
the conditions in which people ac
tually smoke and live.
“Even if it’s true,” he said of
the finding, “it’s still good advice
to cut down.”
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3 Mafia leaders among 8
convicted of racketeering
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NEW YORK (AP) — Eight peo
ple, including three Mafia bosses,
were convicted Wednesday of partic
ipating in a “commission” that has
split territories, sanctioned rubouts
and kept organized crime organized
since the days of Prohibition.
The case proved for the first time
that a panel overseeing the existence
of Mafia national operations, the
FBI said.
“It can no longer be passed off as
a prosecutor’s theory,” U.S. Attor
ney Rudolph Guiliani said. “It’s been
proven beyond a reasonable doubt
there is a Mafia; La Cosa Nostra
exists.”
When the racketeering indict
ment was handed up in February
1985, Justice Department officials
described it as the most powerful
blow ever directed at the Mafia’s
symbol of power.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael
Chertoff, the chief prosecutor in the
case, said the verdict was significant
but does not mean the end of orga
nized crime in the United States.
“This wasn’t the only Mafia case
and it won’t be the last,” he said.
William Doran, head of the Crimi
nal Division in the FBI’s New York
office, said, “As far as we are con
cerned, the commission that was in
volved in the policy decisions, the di
rection of La Cosa Nostra, is or has
been convicted or killed.”
Convicted of racketeering and
racketeering conspiracy were Geno
vese crime family boss Anthony “Fat
Tony” Salerno, 75; Colombo boss
Carmine “Junior” Persico, 53; and
Lucchese boss Anthony “Tony
Ducks” Corallo, 73.
Also convicted on those charges
were Colombo underboss Gennaro
“Jerry Lang” Langella, 47; Lucchese
underboss Salvatore “Tom Mix”
Santoro, 72; Lucchese counselor
Christopher “Christy Tick” Furnari,
62; Ralph Scopo, 58, a former labor
leader and Colombo soldier; and
Bonanno soldier Anthony “Bruno”
Indelicato, 38.
In addition to the racketeering
and conspiracy counts, all but Indel
icato were convicted of extortion, ex
tortion conspiracy and labor payoffs.
Corallo and Santoro were also
convicted of loansharking conspir
acy.
Salerno, Persico, Langella, Fur
nari and Scopo face maximum sen
tences of 306 years. Corallo and San
toro face 326 years and Indelicato
faces 40 years.
The judge has set the sentencing
for Jan. 6.
The verdict followed more than
five days of deliberation.
In their decision, the jurors found
all eight defendants were members
of, or worked for, a commission that
acted as a “board of directors” for
the Mafia since 1931.
The verdict was the second blow
this week for Persico and Langella.
Persico was sentenced Monday to 39
years on a previous racketeering
conviction, and Langella received a
65-year sentence for his conviction
in the same case. •
The reputed bosses of the Gam-
bino and Bonanno organized crime
families also were named in the in
dictment but Paul Castellano, re
puted boss of the Gambino family,
was gunned down last December.
The case against reputed Bonanno
boss Philip “Rusty” Rastelli was
dropped because of other federal
charges in Brooklyn.
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