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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Friday, November ., 1976
Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY Friday, November 5, 1976
Mafia figure victim
of gangland murder
Chicago flat a bomb factory
for Puerto Ricn terrorists
By Reuter
NEW YORK - The killing of
a high - ranking Mafia figure1
outside his home here lates
Wednesday night, may be the1
start of a bloody struggle for
control of the late Carlo Gam-
bino's vast underworld empire,1
police, said yesterday.
They said the victim, Pietro
Licata, 70, was a retired capo
(captain) in the Joseph (Joe
Banan'as) Bonanno family-one
of five Mafia crime families un-
der Gambino's control until his
death at the age of 74 last
month.
GAMBINO, KNOWN as the
"Capo di tutti Capi" (Boss of.
Bosses), died in his sleep on1
October 25.
The head of the Bonanno fam-
ily, Carmine (Lillo) Galente,
has been tipped to take stew-1
ardship of the Gambino empire,x
police said.{
They said Licata was killed
in typical gangland style as he
got out of his Cadillac shortlyI
before midnight to open the
gate to the private drive of his
home in the borough of Queens.
HIS ATTACKER, heavy-set
and in a tan coat, fired a shot-
gun at Licata, hitting him in
the face and head, and then fled
in a yellow car whose license
plates were covered.
Licata's wife, Vita, remained
inside the car during the shoot-
ing and was not hurt. A neigh-
bor also witnessed the shoot-
ing, police said.
CHICAGO (Reuter) - A bomb factory be-
lieved used by the mysterious Puerto Rican
terrorist group FALN has been discovered here,
law enforcement officials said yesterday.
Bomb parts, partially constructed bombs and
a letter in Spanish bearing the FALN logo were
found at the factory, located in a flat on Chi-
cago's north-west side, the officials said.
THE PUERTO RICAN occupant of the flat,
identified as Carlos Alberto Torres; 24, was being
sought on an arrest warrant.
The revelations came at a press conference
held jointly by William Beane, head of the
Chicago office of the Federal Bureau of In-
vestigation (FBI), and Chicago Police Super-
intendent James Rochford.,
"Literature and other evidence (found in the
flat) indicated that the occupants were affiliated
with the FALN," Beane said.
THE FALN, A militant underground organiza-
tion dedicated to independence for Puerto Rico,
has claimed responsibility for more than a dozen
bombings in major American cities in the past
two years, including New York, Chicago and
Washington.
Most of the attacks were aimed at large
banks, major corporations and government
agencies and caused damages but few injuries.
However, the FALN also claimed credit for an;
explosion that killed four persons and injured
53 at the Fraunces Tavern in the Wall Street
financial district of New York on January 24,
1975.
NO ONE HAS ever been convicted in any of
the attacks. Among evidence found in the bomb
factory flat were explosive powders, blasting
caps, dry cell batteries, weapons and walkie-
talkies.
launching a new offensive, according to a
written statement by Beane and Rochford.
Beane called the discovery of the flat "a
significant breakthrough" and told the press
conference: "This was a very substantial bomb
factory. They (FALNf may have two or three
factories around the United fStates, but this is
bound to have a crippling effect on them."
ROCHFORD SAID IT was not known if Torres,
a former student at the University of Illinois,
was a member of 'he FALN. He was being
sought by police and federal agents on charges
of illegal possession of explosives.
The police superintendent said police dis-
covered the apartment last night after arresting
three members of a teen-age street gang who
were allegedly trying to sell dynamite on the
street.
He said the three were being held but were
not believed to be members of the terrorist
group.
POLICE FOUND some 200 sticks of dynamite
in a location near the flat, and then found the
flat itself and more dynamite, he said. A total
of 211 sticks of the explosive was seized.
A source close to the investigation said niost
of the dynamite was found in a garage near
the flat and was believed moved there in an-
ticipation of a police raid.
Beane said the bomb parts seized were
American-made and similar to parts discovered
at the sites of bomb attacks. He said the New
York and Washington bombs might have orig-
inated at the Chicago factory.
One of the last big FALN attacks came on
October 27, 1975, when bombs went off almost
simultaneously here and in New York and Wash-
ington. Targets included IBM, Standard Oil,
Sears-Roebuck, the State Department and the
Bureau of Indian Affairs.
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