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Thursday, November 20, 1986/The Battalion/Page 11 World and Nation fjsssssm 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. om 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. 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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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