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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Wednesday, April 2, 1986
News Briefs
France withdraws cease-fire observers
BEIRUT, Lebanon — France, saying its peace-keeping mission in Beirut has become impossible, withdrew its 45 cease-fire observers yesterday in a move that marked the end of Western peace-keeping efforts in the battered capital.
Weary firefighters chased wildfires across the rugged foothills of Tennessee and Georgia for the second straight day yesterday. From Mississippi to Ohio, scattered blazes charred parched timber.
Wildfires kill three
Official's said at least 70,000 acres of woodlands have burned in 13 states in the past two weeks, claiming the lives of three firefighters.
The French pullout, after two years on the Green Line battle zone, came two weeks after the kidnappers of four Frenchmen demanded the withdrawal and three weeks after a sniper killed a French observer, the ninth to die in Lebanon.
"If we don't get some rain soon, those figures are going to start climbing," said Jack Long, spokesman for the Georgia Forestry Commission.
Fugitive still trailed
PARADISE HILL, Nev. —
Hunters seeking mountain man
Claude Dallas raided a trailer in
the desert of the Paradise Valley
yesterday, but their quarry was
gone, officials said.
However, a bloodhound caught Dallas's scent and followed it nearly a mile before a rainstorm confused the dog. Earlier it had tracked Dallas through a tavern and down the highway.
Dallas escaped from the prison outside Boise, Idaho, on Sunday.
Eruption threatens
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Anxious residents of the coastal fishing town of Homer prepared yesterday for possible eruptions of Augustine Volcano that could trigger a giant sea wave.
Even a small earthquake could put the town of 4,000,70 miles to the east of the volcano, in danger of a tidal wave, officials said.
From Kansan wires.
Mob infiltrates lawful U.S. industries
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The President's Commission on Organized Crime ended $2\frac{1}{2}$ years of work yesterday with a final report warning that the mob has grown into a $106.2 billion industry that costs billions in lost taxes and jobs.
One study done for the commission indicated that while the bulk of organized crime income comes from drugs, illegal gambling, loan sharking and prostitution, the Mafia has made inroads into virtually every principal, legitimate U.S. industry.
The commission also charged that some U.S. lawyers are working actively for the mob and called for wiretaps to root out those operating unethically.
Members reproach crime panel
"Allough few in number, they do exist," the report said of attorneys it termed "lawyer-criminals." Other attorneys, it charged, are reluctant to report such illegal conduct, but the charges are "not meant to attack the criminal defense bar."
Ferretting out such lawyers who knowingly commit perjury, obstruct
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Half the members of the President's Commission on Organized Crime criticized the panel's $5 million investigation yesterday as a saga of missed opportunity.
In a departure from their commission's final report, nine members of the panel issued a statement saying the commission did some good work, but mishandled some areas and left important issues unexamined.
"The true history of the President's Commission on Organized Crime is a saga of missed opportunity," said a statement by nine commissioners.
Though the commission spent $3 million to determine the grip of organized crime on the country, the nine commissioners said poor management had denied members the opportunity to review many findings and recommendations of the commission's report.
The nine members said the commission, which spent 32 months investigating organized crime,failed to make a complete national and region-by-region analysis.
justice and aid and abet criminal acts, "is possible only through use of wiretaps or surveillance or from information supplied by colleagues, friends or others." the report said.
William Falgraf, president of the American Bar Association, said his group would work to weed out unethical lawyers, but "at the same
They said the panel took an important step toward estimating organized crime's yearly income and its cost to Americans and cast light for the first time on new ethnic groups involved in organized crime.
But they said, "The commission, however, has failed to address the roles of American black and Jewish organizations in organized crime."
time assuring that we do not sweep away 1/4 Amendment protections for all citizens in our rush to achieve a quick fix in these few cases."
The report presented five case studies of lawyer-criminals who actively worked with organized crime, providing favors, supplying inside information and otherwise interceding
because they were blackmailed or intimidated
To combat such crime, the report recommended tighter methods of self-policing within the legal society and that fees paid to attorneys by criminal defendants be subject to forfeiture.
The commission, established by
President Reagan in July 1983 earlier recommended mandatory drug testing for federal workers and contractors, and said four major U.S. unions, as well as many legitimate U.S. industries, were dominated by the mob.
the commission's final 250-page report, "The Impact: Organized Crime Today," detailed the full scope of organized crime, and said it would cost the United States 414,000 jobs, lost tax revenues of $6.5 billion and every American $77.20.
Criminal industries in the nation were worth as much as $106.2 billion, according to a study done by Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates for the commission. The study said besides drugs, illegal gambling and loan sharking, prostitution was one of the largest sources of income for organized crime and estimated that alone was worth $11.5 billion in 1982.
Bodies pulled from crash site
It said manufacturing and mine industries were the only ones not heavily infiltrated by the mob.
United Press International
SAN MIGUEL EL ALTO, Mexico — Searchers trudging through ankle-deep red dust yesterday pulled bodies from the slopes of a Sierra Mountain where a Mexicana Airlines jetliner crashed, killing all 166 people aboard in the worst disaster in Mexican aviation history.
A U.S. Embassy spokesman said nine of the passengers were Americans, but refused to release names until relatives were notified.
Nine French nationals and four Swedes, including Swedish Embassy Counselor Kerstin Enerfelt, her two children and her sister, were identified as victims of the crash.
mechanics and ground crew union denied reports that the union had complained that the airline's fleets of planes were poorly maintained. He insisted the jets were in good condition.
Mexicana spokesman Eduardo Kuri said the plane's black box, or flight data recorder, had not been recovered, and the airline had no clue to the cause of the accident.
All 166 people aboard the plane were killed in the crash Monday, which an airline spokesman called the worst in Mexican aviation history. The death toll surpassed the 74 people who were killed Oct. 31, 1979, when a Western Airlines DC-10 telter crashed in Mexico City.
In Mexico City, a spokesman for Mexicana's
The Mexicanica jet slammed into the topnip at the town of San Miguel El Alto, some 80 miles northwest of Mexico City, minutes after take-off from Benito Juarez Airport: its final destination is Los Angeles.
A spokesman for the National Transportation Safety Board in Washington said investigators from the NTSB, the Federal Aviation Administration, Boeing and Pratt and Whitney, which made the plane's engines, had been sent to Mexico at the request of authorities to assist in the investigation.
Beatlemania sweeps Soviet Union
MOSCOW - A new wave of Beatlemania is sweeping through the Soviet Union - but this time it is officially sanctioned and has sent Soviets twisting and shouting into government stores in search of records by the Fab Four.
The Soviet Union's state recording
agency, Melodiya, has produced 200,000 copies of two Beatles records through a licensing agreement with the British recording company EMI, a Soviet official said yesterday.
Customers pushed and shoved in the main Melodiya store in Moscow on Monday when the records, packaged as a double album titled "Hard Day's Night," went on sale —
and quickly sold out.
United Press International
Because of the quick sellout at stores across the nation, the All-Union International Trade Association, which negotiated the asked, for the right to produce another 200,000 records, a spokesman for the company said.
United Press International
Moscow wants action before second summit
Soviet record stores usually are well-stocked with classical music
MOSCOW — Moscow must be sure there will be some progress in arms control before agreeing to a date for a second summit meeting between President Reagan and Kremlin leader Mikhail Gorbachev, a Soviet official said yesterday.
First Deputy Foreign Minister Georgi Kormienko also said Gorbachev's call Saturday for a special meeting in Europe to discuss a nuclear test ban treaty does not mean such a session was meant to supplant a full summit.
Despite an immediate rejection by Reagan concerning the European meeting, Kornienko urged the U.S. president to give his final word.
"We would not like to think that President Reagan has said his final word on a special meeting on the issue of ending nuclear weapons tests," Kornienko said at a news conference.
"By proposing to have a meeting as soon as possible to discuss the
termination of nuclear testing, Mikhail B谷hachire did not mean this meeting should supplant the summit meeting that had been agreed in Geneva," Kornienko said.
Gorbachev urged Reagan on Monday to take a responsible approach to his offer to meet in a European capital to discuss a ban on nuclear tests. The Soviets annotated the letter with the numbers 6 and have extended it twice while urging Reagan to join the moratorium.
Kornienko, following Gorbachev's lead, cast a further shadow on the possibility of a second summit between the two leaders, saying Moscow must be sure there will be some progress in arms negotiations.
Reagan and Gorbachev agreed during their summit last November to hold another meeting this year in the United States. Washington has complained that Moscow will not agree to a date and Moscow pushed for a prior arms control agreement.
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