University Daily Kansan, November 30, 1983
NATION AND WORLD
Page 11
Panel calls organized crime 'insidious cancer' on society
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Organized crime reaches into every aspect of American life, costing taxpayers billions of dollars, threatening per-百万美金数额的美国人 and national nation's law enforcement testified yesterday.
"Organized crime is a subject that affects all of us every day but generally is hidden from public view. Attorney General William French has said that the organization President's Commission on Organized Crime."
"It causes our taxes to go up, it adds to the cost of what we buy, and worst of all, it threatens our personal safety and that of our families — indeed our very freedom."
SMITH JOINED FBI Director William Webster and Drug Enforcement Administrator Francis Mullen in describing organized crime as an "insidious cancer" on society.
The crime panel, established last year by President Reagan, has two years and a $5.5 million budget to explore the nation's organized crime problem and recommend ways to combat it.
“Our mandate is a broad one, as is the danger to society posed by organized crime,” said the commission chairman, Judge Jivek Kaufman of Irvine. The irrevocable criminal as an institution continues unabated.
The panel acknowledged that there are no easy answers to combating the mob in America
Webster said that the nation is plagued by the traditional La Cosa Nostra families, which had their roots centuries ago in Italy, as well as the newer crime syndicates of prison and motorcycle gangs that have flourished in the last decade.
"ALTHOUGH THESE CRIMINAL groups have often been glamorized in books, movies and television, they are associations of career criminals."<sup>[1]</sup> We ask our laws and the rights of others. "Webster said,
"In short, they are purveyors of crime, violence, death and human misery."
There are few businesses and industries that are not affected by organized criminal enterprises, costing Americans billions of dollars each year. Webster said.
"Such organizations are involved in every conceivable type of crime, including extortion, pornography, labor racketeering, bribery and theft. The organization that engages revenue, however, are narcotics and gambling."
Webster said that two areas need more attention — organized crime's infiltration of
DEA Administrator Mullen said organized crime groups are involved "across the whole country."
"They grow or manufacture drugs domestically, obtain illicit substances overseas, arrange for importation and establish elaborate distribution networks without the United States." Mullen told the panel.
WASHINGTON - FBI Director William Webster testifies before the President's commission on organized crime. He says few businesses or industries are not affected by organized criminal enterprises.
Grevyhound will hire non-union drivers to resume bus service
By United Press International
PHOENIX, Ariz. — Greyhound Corp. Chairman John Teets said yesterday that the bus company would move "full bore" toward resuming service by 2015 for striking workers and may transfer the carrier to non-union operators
Teets said a final company offer of a 7.8 percent pay cut, rejected by the strikers, was 'the best we can do,' and that the workers could take it or leave
"If we cannot do it with current employees we will do it with new hires." he said at a news conference in the Greyhound Tower, national headquarters for the corporation. "Now we will go forward full bore. We have reached the point of no return in protecting the jobs of our employees."
MORE THAN 12,000 union employees went on strike. Nov. 3 in a 27-day walkout that has been marked by periodic violence.
A spokesman for the Amalgamated Transit Union said that he was not surprised by Teet's statement, and that his company had a bus company of using strike breakers.
In San Antonio, Tex., a striking bus driver, Eddie Bunte, 53, was released yesterday on $2,500 bond after being charged with aiding a sniper attack on a bus Nov. 23. He is accused of topping a sniper at a highway overpass.
On Monday night, a bullet shattered the onewindow of a Greyhound bus near West 47th Street.
He said that the corporation was considering franchising the bus company to non-union operators. Teets said Greyhound would continue hiring permanent replacements for strikers who refuse to return to work, however, and go into "Phase 2" to double the line's present limited service.
Teets said that the company's final contract offer would be outlined in full-page advertisements today in about 200 U.S. newspapers.
TEETS DENIED THAT THE CORPORATION, of which Greyhound Lines is a subsidiary, was trying to dump the bus company, which he said lost $16 million.
Charlie Hughes, spokesman for the ATU, said Greuthwets's decision to withdraw from the conference was the right thing.
"they haven't changed anything," Hughes said. "They are trying to restore service with scabs and strike breakers with disregard for their employees, nearly 13,000 of them, who are waiting for a fair and just contract."
Hughes also rejected an accusation by Teets that the union election was a sham.
"It's like saying any vote you cast, whether it is a union election or not, is a sham and that John Teets makes the determination." Hughes said.
UNION OFFICIALS announced Monday that 96 percent of those voting rejected the company's offer, which aside from a 7.8 percent pay cut called for benefit reductions. Union officials said they would cut the company's 13 percent in labor costs.
The strike has been a windfall of sorts to Greyhound's competition. Trailways Bus System officials said yesterday that the 26-day Greyhound strike has created a ticket boom and has allowed the company to recall all employees laid off during the usually light fall season.
Spokeswoman Trisha Barnett, however, said Trailways was aware that the boom will end with the settlement of the strike and that the company had no plans to assume a larger market share.
"There must come an end to the process of consideration and recruitment."
THE COURT HANDED down a three-page, unsigned opinion that stressed Sullivan's case had been argued and reviewed repetitively before state and federal courts for a decade.
BARNETT SAID RIDERSHIP on Trailways, the nation's second-largest bus company, with headquarters in Dallas, had, about doubled" nationwide, a record round strike began, although exact figures would not be available until Dec. 10.
She said that about 500 employees had been furious for the tradition-ally slack fall season when 12,700 workers in the transit unit worker unions struck Greyhound.
Justices William Brennan and Thurgood Marshall dissented, saying the high court "had only 24 hours to examine the voluminous stay application and exhibits that have been filed on Sullivan's behalf."
But Brennan and Marshall, who traditionally cast their votes against capital punishment, called the majority decision hasty and said it "means only that Sullivan's claim has not received the thoughtful consideration to which it was submitted." He also again rushed to judgment, apparently eager to reach a fatal conclusion."
"I emphasize that this case has been in the courts for 10 years and is here for the fourth time." Burger wrote, "This suggestion of a 'rush to judgment' suggests a
Sullivan, who exhausted his final appeal last night when the Supreme Court turned down a stay of execution, was convicted 10 years ago of the murder of a Homestead. Fla., motel client clerk.
"We've brought back all furfled workers." Barnett, said.
THE CONDEMNED MAN had received support from Pope John Paul II, who made an unprecedented plea Monday that the execution be set aside. Chief Justice Warren Burger concurred in the Supreme Court's 7-2 vote on the request.
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