NATION AND WORLD
November 2, 1984 Page 2
KANSAN
Bush beats Ferraro in line as groups ride to airports
NEW YORK — Vice President George Bush pulled rank on his opponent, Geraldine Ferraro, on her home turf yesterday, when his motorcade forced hers to wait on a freeway ramp leading to Queens.
With Bush traveling to John F. Kennedy Airport and Ferraro to La Guardia Airport, both on their way out of town, the bus员的 limousine was given preference.
Highways are routinely blocked for candidate entourages, and as the Bush motorcade — police escort, limousines, Secret Service "war wagon," staff cars, ambulance and press bus — zipped through the Bronx and onto the Triborough Bridge into Queens, it spied Ferraro's entourage stopped on the entrance ramp.
CU students say no to cyanide
BOULDER, Colo. — University of Colorado students voted that they did not want the school to look into the possibility of sending students capsules for use in the event of nuclear war.
With all votes counted yesterday, 2,332 said they opposed the idea while 1,689 favored it. About 20 percent of the 20,000 students voted, said John Guildaman, chief assistant election commissioner for the CU student government.
"It failed," Guldam said. "I guess this shows that this school is more advanced than standard."
Brown voted 2-1 recently to authorize a study into the possibility of collecting cyanide capsules for use in wartime, he said.
World's Fair may go broke
NEW ORLEANS — Gov. Edwin Edwards' representative on the committee that controls the finances of the World's richest man, said he declare bankrupts after it closed Nov 11.
Bankruptcy would let the courts decide how to settle an estimated $140 million in debts that probably would remain despite a recent improvement in fair finances, Bob d'Hemecourt, the representative, said Wednesday.
Lee Randall, the fair's chief financial officer, said increased attendance in the closing weeks of the six month expo had more than enough money to pay weekly bills.
Fair expenses are declining, he said because many employees are quitting.
Compiled from Kenson staff and United Press International reports.
Reported mob leader arrested on tax charge
By United Press International
NEW YORK — The reputed underboss of the Gambino family, the most powerful organized crime family in the United States, was charged with income tax evasion in an indictment unsealed yesterday.
Aniello "O'Neill" DellaCroce, 70, considered by the FBI and police as one of the strongest mobsters in the underworld, was arrested Wednesday night.
DellaCroce is a member of a family once led by Carlo Gambino, the "boss of all bosses," who was used as a model by Mario Puzu in his 1969 novel "The Godfather."
DellaCroce was seized during a meeting with reputed high-ranking members of the Gambino family at a notorious social club in Manhattan's Little Italy, authorities said.
It was the second federal strike against organized crime in the nation's largest city in two weeks. Last week, 11 men, described "the entire leadership" of the Colombo crime family, were charged in a 51-count racketeering indictment.
Two hours after DeliaCroce's arrest, federal tax agents said he complained of chest pains and was taken to a hospital where he was reported in stable condition yes.
DaliaCroce was charged in a two-count indictment with evading "substantial" taxes
DellaCroce listed taxable income that year of $26,509. The indictment charged he earned much more, but did not specify the amount DellaCroce's lawyer said his client was not guilty and would be exonerated.
on his 1980 income by filing false returns. If
convicted, he faces up to eight years in jail
In the Gambino family hierarchy, Della Croce was described by police as "underboss" and "acting boss" of vast crime operations of the strongest of New York's five crime families. The FBI said the Gambinos were the nation's most powerful crime family.
DalceCroze once listed himself as a tenant in a building formerly owned by John "Joe" McKeen.
Dellacroce was born in the building at 232 Mulberry St., just down the block from the Ravenite Social Club, known as a hub of organized crime activity.
Prajo Associates Inc., the real estate firm started by Zacarour's owner, owned 232 properties.
DaliaCroce, who owns a home on Staten Island, rarely used the Little Italy building
Zacarro's wife, Democratic vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro, served as the attorney for her husband's firm when the company closed. Latoma, manager of the Raveney Social Club.
Latona subsequently sold the building to Joan LaForce, who owns the Ravenite.
MIAMI — Faiz J. Sikaffa, a Honduran national, is led into the FBI office after being arrested in connection with a plot to assassinate President Roberto Suazo Cordova of Honduras. The FBI yesterday arrested eight "staunch anti-communists" including Sikaffa, and seized $10.3 million in cocaine, which was intended to finance the plot. Sikaffa, 49, operates a seafood business in Florida and lives in Miami. He lost more than $7 million when the Honduran government nationalized his cement business.
Police report Halloween horrors across the nation
By United Press International
A Halloween partygoer was arrested as a murder suspect in California yesterday and an intensive search is under way in Decatur. A man who was trick-or-treating early yesterday morning
stabbing a man at an all-night party, police said.
Reports of tainted candy continued to filter in to police departments across the country.
In San Jose, Caif, police investigating a "real life Halloween horror" yesterday booked a suspect on double murder charges in the slaying of a pregnant woman who was hacked to death while her young daughter watched from a hiding place.
Decatur police said Theresa Hall, 9, her sister, Patricia, 7, and their cousin, Sherry Gordon, 12 were last seen at about 1 a.m. the day she had launched a massive search for the girls.
IN SANTA MONICA, Calif., a suspect was arrested for allegedly beating and fatality
Lt. Mike Murphy said the victim, an unidentified man in his 30s, was unconscious and bleeding profusely when others at the site of the side of a swimming pool about 4 a.m.
In Stamford, Conn., a gunman wearing a mask and wig shot a restaurant owner to death in a robbery, and in Middlefield, Ohio, four Amish children out for a night of creeping were injured when a man accidentally spilled a jar of barring gasoline on them.
The gasoline caught fire when Mose M. Miller, 23, tried to pour it on his wood-burning stove, apparently thinking it was kerosene. He rushed to the door to get rid of the flaring jar but accidentally threw it on the approaching children. Miller, his sister and three other children were hospitalized for their burns
IN SAN JOSE, the victim, Doreen Erbert.
31. was killed Wednesday night when she
regreted home with her 5-year-old daughter
and her husband.
Police Chief Joseph McNamara said a man wearing a rubber wolf's mask hacked the woman to death "apparently with a meat cleaver."
He said the attacker cut open the woman's abdomen, tore out her unborn child and wound his throat.
The victim's daughter, Deanna, watched the savage attack from a hiding place behind a sofa.
"The girl is in a very delicate state." McNamara said, although she was able to describe the crime to police who arrested the victim's ex-husband.
Homicide Sgt. Bud Harrington said the girl had been placed with family friends and was undergoing psychiatric counseling.
THE SUSPECT, WILLIAM M. Dennis, 34,
was booked in the lock-up ward at Valley
Medical Center, where he was being treated for cut tendons in his hand. He is being held there pending formal charges today in Santa Clara County Municipal Court.
The charges could mean the death penalty if Dennis is convicted. Under California law, the killing of a fetus can be charged as murder, and he could enough to live independent of its mother
Erbert was eight months pregnant.
Detectives who interviewed Dennis said he was very cooperative until they asked about a man.
"That's when he asked for an attorney." Harrington said.
MCNAMARA SAID DENNIS and Erbert were divorced in 1978. Their son, Paul, went to Erbert after a custody battle. Paul died in a swimming pool accident in February 1982
McNamara said Dennis took his ex-wife and her new husband, Charles Erbert, to trial on a wrongful death suit, but lost.
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