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Page 6-Friday, January 28, 1983-The Michigan Daily
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P CI'1RYE'ER

Organized crime up
despite govt. fight

WASHINGTON (AP) - While top
crime bosses are being swept into
prison in increasing numbers, "the
profits of organized crime are so huge
that we have been outmanned and
outgunned in the battle," Attorney
General William French Smith said
yesterday.
Seeking support for President
Reagan's "all-out war against big-time,
organized crime," Smith and FBI
Director William Webster told the
Senate Judiciary Committee that the
tentacles of America's vast cime syn-
dicates are touching nearly every
business and institution, including
government.
"TODAY THERE are few businesses
or industries in our communities that
are not affected by organized criminal
enterprises," Webster said.
Smith, citing instances where police
and other officials have accepted huge
payments to ignore criminal activity,
warned, "The dollar amounts involved
are so great that bribery threatens the
very foundations of law and law enfor-
cement."
"The Congress, state legislatures and
our courts," Webster added, "are not
immune from attempts to influence
them by organized crime.
THROUGH their gambling
operations, crime organizations also
have been trying to gain an edge in the

sports industry and collegiate ac-
tivities, he said.
"It's an obvious point of vulnerability,
and we have seen signs that they have
taken advantage of this," Webster said.
Smith said it would be "pure
speculation" to put an estimate on the
money being made by the 25 Mafia
families, the nation's primary
organized crime syndicate, and other
major crime organizations. But he said
federal officials have seized about $400
million in assets during criminal in-
vestigations over the past two years.
THE NATION'S two top law enfor-
cement officers, while admitting the
magnitude of organized crime remains
"gigantic," said major inroads are
being made under Reagan's anticrime
plan due to the increased cooperation of
federal agents, the military and finan-
cial backing from Congress.
Webster said that in the past two
years 359 of the Mafia's 20,000 members
or associates, including a number of top
bosses, have been convicted.
This has been a signal that members
at all levels in criminal groups can no
longer consider themselves protected
by a code of secrecy, Webster said.
ALTHOUGH crime syndicates are in-
volved in all types of illegal activity,
Webster and Smith said gambling and
drugs provides the bulk of their profits.
While much of those illicit profits are
being plowed back into criminal
operations, Smith said that more and
more, profits are being invested in
legitimate businesses.
Webster said all the Mafia families
are involved in loan-sharking and use it
to take over legitimate businesses.
Some examples are firms involving
vending machines, garbage disposal,
meat and produce distribution, liquor
stores and taverns, garmet manufac-
turing, tranportation and hauling and
labor unions, he said.
"Organized crime contacts and in-
fluence" have been identified with the
International Longshoremen's Union;
the Teamsters, the Motel, Restaurant
and Bartenders Union and the Labors
International, he said.
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Bishop Moses Anderson AP Photo
Newly ordained bishop, The Most Reverend Moses Anderson smiles as he
watches the ordination of two other bishops yesterday afternoon at =the
Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Detroit. Anderson is Detroit's
first black bishop.
Politce strike causes,
citizens to form patroi

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ANACONDA, Mont. (AP) - The
police chief told residents and
shopkeepers yesterday to do
"everything they have to do" to protect
their property as a two-day-old police
strike kept the county government shut
down.
Merchants and citizens in this city of
10,500 people in southwestern Montana
organized their own patrols and neighb-
orhood watches as the striking officers
walked a picket line Wednesday night.
"It was a quiet night," said Police
chief Jim Connors, who manned the
department alone, spending the night
catnapping beside the phone in the
dispatcher's office.
r THE CITY-county force of 18
policemen and seven dispatchers went
on strike at 7 a.m. Wednesday after 10
months of unsuccessful negotiations for
a new contract.
Working conditions were the main
sticking point. The city, which has been
losing population and jobs since the
Anaconda Minerals Co. closed its cop-
per smelter in 1980, said it could not af-
ford the officers' proposals.
No further negotiatons have been-
scheduled.
AFTER NEARLY 30 hours alone on
duty, Connors said yeterday the phone
had been ringing often with citizens
promising to come to his aid if needed
and telling him they have organized
neighborhood patrols.
"They say they will help out," Con-
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nors said. "It's kind of a buddy system
and they will make citizens arrests ig
needed."
Merchants organized a committee to
patrol on foot and in cars.
Prof. and
p astor speak4
on research,
(Continued from Page 1)
Engineering, the defense department is
virtuallythe only place to go for funds.
"There are very few of us who like
this sort of umbilical tie with the Depar
tment of Defense," he said, but to sever
it would be to leave the University out
of the high-technology wave of the
future.
SENIOR ADMITTED that this tie can
result in military applications, even
from basic research.
"Any time you accept sponsorship fore
research, you do lose a degree of
freedom. After all, he who pays the
piper can to some degree call the tune,'
he said.
And Senior said later in the night,
"The more successful you are. . . the r
more inevitable and almost certain it is
that that improvement will finds
military applications."
COLEMAN SAID those applications
must be considered when a research
grant is taken, and suggested a com-,
mittee of faculty members, students,
and members of the community be
formed to review Pentagon-sponsored..
projects.
For the past year, Senior has been a
member of a University committee
trying to come up with guidelines on
non-classified defense research,
leading one member of the audience to
ask if there wasn't a clear conflict of in-
terest.
Senior said it didn't present a con-,
flict: "I do represent one viewpoint that.
is held by many : . . a viewpoint that I.
feel is necessary to be expressed."
EARLY THIS month Senior's
Research Policies Committee voted
down a proposal for a panel to oversee
non-classified research.
Coleman said some .sort of panel is'
necessary to open up defense depar-
tment-sponsored research. 'Whatever
research is done ought to be open," he
said. "If it has to be kept under wraps, I
would ;question whether it is a
legitimate enterprise for the Univer-
sity."
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There are still
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yet to imagine.
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