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Wednesday, December 7, 1977
University Daily Kansan
Crime family indicted in murders
CLEVELAND (AP)—The FBL, outlining its case against nine illegal Cosa Nostra members charged in two car-bomb murders, unfolds a tapestry of crime whose threads of extortion, murder, loan-sharking and gambling reach across the nation.
FBI agent E. Griffin Jr, describes the case as "the most significant action that has been made to date against any single organized crime family in the United States."
Among the nine indicted Monday by the Cuyahoga County grand jury was 73-year-old James T. Liewoll. He was described by prosecutors as the Cosa Nero capo or buss in Cleveland.
Specifically, the affidavit filed in federal court accused Licavoli of ordering the assassination of John Nardi, identified as a former Cosa Nostra member, and his associate, Daniel J. "Danny" Greene, during a power struggle.
The nine were indicted on charges of conspiracy to commit murder, aggravated murder for hire, aggravated arson and engaging in organized crime.
THREE OF THE men—Licavoli, Angelo Lonardo, 66, and Thomas J. Sinito, 39—entered innocent pleas yesterday in Common Pleas Court.
A fourth man, John Calandra, 66, suffered a heart attack after his arrest and was in intensive care at St. Vincent Charity Hospital.
The affidavit signed by FBI agent E. Michael Kahoe details an "organized crime conspiracy which is controlled nationally by a membership which is exclusively Italian." The organization is variously referred to as "the Nostra" or "our thing," the statement said.
Kahoe said the affidavit was based on information from confidential sources,
including one Cosa Nestra member. It gives details of the struggle for control of the rackets in northeastern Ohio, where police have said the organization makes millions
The affidavit says in 1973, two years before the death of former Costa Nossa boss John Scallish, Nardi "appeared to be making a promise" for leadership in the Cleveland ... family.
A Cosa Nostra was quoted in the affidavit as saying that Nardi, a nephew of Cosa Nostra underboss Anthony Milano, "had five criminal associates who were killing people by putting bombs in their cars."
1976, after he had taken over as boss in Cleveland, Liavicloa learned that four Cleveland family members, who were not further identified, had aligned themselves with the "Irish mob" headed by Danny Greene, the affidavit said.
Kahoe quoted one of his sources as saying
Licavoli called the Irish mob "a tightly-knit group who were utilizing explosives and other sophisticated weapons to attempt to kill a mass of criminal activities in Cleveland."
the affidavit said that Licavoli had decided Narda and Greene had to be killed. But the statement identified a West Coast Costa Nostra member, James "The Wesel" Frattiano, as the man who made the first attack on him, Raymond Ferratto, 40, of Erie, Pa.
Ferrito, charged last month in the Greene killing, was quoted in the affidavit as giving details of the organization's efforts to stop the killing but saying he was not involved in the Narci.
Nardi was killed May 17 and Greene Oct. 6, both by bombs placed in cars parked next to the cars they were using. The bombs were detonated by remote control.
Group's request favors coal over atomic plant
TOPEKA (UPI)—The Mid-America Coalition for Energy Alternatives yesterday filed a petition asking the Kansas Corporation Commission (KCC) to investigate the possibility of converting a Kansas Gas & Electric Co. plant to coal.
A spokesman for Mid-America, the Roeland Park-based organization, said converting the Gordon Evans Ne. 2 power plant to coal could make it unnecessary for
KGE and Kansas City Power & Light Co. to nuclear power plant, proposed for Burlingen.
The group also asked the KCC to send a technical expert to visit the Wichita area plant during an inspection by the federal Department of Energy this month.
No. 2 has burned natural gas and oil to make electricity since its construction in 1968. The statement said it had been believed the unit could not be converted to coal without being entirely rebuilt at a cost approaching that of building a new plant.
The Mid-America energy group, which has opposed the construction of Wolf Creek, has been a strong supporter.
"The statement of a KGE executive that the unit was originally designed for conversion to coal, however, has led the federal agency to initiate its investigation, which
could result in a coal conversion order being issued to the utility," the statement said.
Syria silent after Sadat's actions
BEIRAT, Lebanon (UPI) -Syria remained silent yesterday on Egypt's abrupt severance of diplomatic relations but Iraq quickly criticized the move, which plunged the Arab world into one of its worst internal crises in three decades.
In Beirut, newspaper reports said that Egypt's next move after severing Algeria's ties with Syria, Iraq, Libya, Algerian affairs, then could be to break relations with Moscow.
MID-AMERICA spokesman Bill Ward said if it were found feasible to convert the plant to coal, it might not be necessary to build the atomic plant. Ward said Gordon Evans No. 2 were used as a base load unit, supplying the general electricity needs of KGE's customers. However, Ward also created CKE for the base load plant and to convert Gordon Evans No. 2 to a peaking unit, supplying added power only during peak use times.
Iraq criticized over Baghdad Radio what it termed Egypt's "hireling regime." Iraq
accused Sada of breaking Carro's ties with Arab hardliners in order to throw the Arab government out.
But more significant than Iraq's predictable criticism from its position on the fringe of the Arab world, was Syria's silence.
In Damascus, diplomats said Syrian
wolters weighing the implications of Sadr's
weightiness the implications of Sadr's
The reports, appearing in the daily newspapers An Nahar and As Saif, struck most observers here as highly unlikely and unfortunate sources, but also "high-ranking" sources in Tripoli, Libya.
BUT THERE WAS no confirmation for a flurry of newspaper reports in Beirut that
Saudi Arabia and other major oil producing states of the Persian Gulf had decided to cut oil production.
"Thus far, the conservative oil states on which Egypt is almost entirely financially dependent have refrained from taking sides against Sadat's peace initiative with Israel.
"We say convert to coal and don't build Wolf Creek," Ward said. "If the plant can be converted, $100 million is a very conservative figure of the savings."
In its petition, Mid-America asked that, if the conversion is found feasible, the KCC order the utility to furnish detailed information of the costs of meeting the needs demanded with a converted Gordon Evans, compared to the costs of Wolf Creek.
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