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Daily Nebraskan
Wednesday, January 14, 1987
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Iranian missile
hits Baghdad;
Iraq retaliates
BAGHDAD, Iraq A missile
hit Baghdad on Tuesday, and
Iraqi warplanes raided Iranian
cities and missile batteries in
reply. Iran claimed to have
broken out of a beachhead on the
fifth day of its offensive, but Iraq
denied it.
Iranian reports monitored in
Cyprus said the missile hit a
trade center, but an Iraqi military
spokesman said it exploded in a
heavily populated district, killing
or wounding many Iraqis. Journal
ists were kept away, but witnesses
said the missile narrowly missed
the residential district.
Iraq said its air force raided
Isfahan, Dezful and the holy city
of Qom in retaliation. All three
Iranian cities have been bombed
three days in a row.
Reports from Iran's official
Islamic Republic News Agency
quoted Tehran communiques as
saying Iranian forces broke
through heavily fortified defenses
on a six-mile front and advanced
toward Iraq's southern port city
of Basra over 38 square miles
they were able to "liberate."
The Iraqi high command said
its troops, tanks and helicopter
gunships "annihilated" Iranians
who tried to push out of the
beachhead on Iraqi territory east
of Basra. The ancient city is
Iraq's second largest.
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Mafia Mte tardl Himes
America's top crime bosses face a century in jail
NEW YORK Three of the Mafia's
top bosses were sentenced Tuesday to
100 years each in jail by a federal judge
who said he wanted to give their would
be successors something to think about.
The bosses of the Colombo, Genovese
and Lucchese organized crime families
received the century-long terms for
membership on a commission that had
settled disputes, divided loot and
occasionally ordered rubouts for the
Mafia since Prohibition.
U.S. District Judge Richard Owen
said he had to send a message "to those
out there who are undoubtedly thinking
about taking over the reins of power."
And authorities cautioned that the
convictions and sentencings did not
mean the end of the mob in America.
"The worst mistake we can make is
to declare a final victory," Thomas L.
Sheer, head of the FBI's New York
office, said following the sentencing of
the bosses and five mob underlings at
federal court in Manhattan.
"I can't say it's the end of the
commission," U.S. Attorney Rudolph
Giuliani said at a news conference in
his office .after the sentencings. But it
makes it much more difficult to operate
that kind of an operation."
The sentenced defendants were:
Genovese boss Anthony "Fat Tony"
Salerno, 76, Carmine "Junior" Persico,
53, head of the Colombos, and Anthony
"Tony Ducks" Corallo, 73, the boss of
'I can't say it's the end of the commis
sion, but it makes it much more difficult
to operate that kind of operation.'
Giuliani
the Lucchese mob.
Owen characterized Salerno and
Persico as "feeding on this community
through murders and violence and
threats of murders and violence."
Me sentenced four of the five mob
underlings convicted with the others
last November to 100 years apiece.
Bonanno crime family soldier Anthony
"Bruno" Indelicato, 38, was only charged
with two racketeering counts but
received the maximum 40 years for
those crimes.
The others sentenced to 100 years
were: Colombo underboss Gennaro
"Gerry Lang" Langella, 48; Lucchese
underboss Salvatore "Tom Mix" Santoro,
72; Lucchese consigliere, or counselor,
Christopher "Christy Tick" Furnari, 62;
and Ralph Scopo, 58, a Colombo soldier
Abductions continue
Gunman kidnap Frenchman;
companion shot at, escapes
BEIRUT, Lebanon Gunmen on
Tuesday kidnapped a French reporter
covering Terry Waite's mission to free
American and other foreign hostages
held in Lebanon. They pistol-whipped
and shot at another French newsman
who escaped.
Police said eight men in two cars
grabbed Roger Auque, 3 1, soon after he
photographed Anglican Church envoy
Waite taking a morning stroll along the
seafront in Moslem west Beirut. Auque
is a free-lance reporter-photographer
for French, Canadian and Belgian radio
stations and photo feature agencies.
Paul Marchand, a French reporter
accompanying Auque, fought off the
men in west Beirut's Raouche resi
dential district at 9:40 a.m. and
escaped, police said.
Waite, the personal emissary of
Archbishop Robert Runcie of Canter
bury, told reporters after hearing of the
abduction: "I'm very sorry to hear it."
"I can't leave now. Roger is my
friend," a shaken Marchand told a CBS
television network in an interview.
No group claimed responsibility for
Auque's abduction.
Auque was the 13th foreign journalist
kidnapped in west Beirut since Moslem
militias wrested control of the Moslem
side of the capital from the army in
bloody fighting Feb. 6, 1984. Seven have
escaped or been released. Several
different groups have claimed respon
sibility for the abductions.
Auque also is the sixth Frenchmen
now missing in Lebanon.
In Paris, France's Foreign Ministry
deplored the kidnapping and said in a
statement it "intends to pursue its
efforts to reach a settlement of the
entire hostage problem."
Islamic Jihad, or Islamic Holy War,
an underground Shiite group believed
loyal to Iran, claims it holds at least
two American and three French
hostages.
Seventeen foreigners are now missing
in Lebanon after being kidnapped: six
Americans, six Frenchmen, two Britons,
one Irishman, one Italian and one
South Korean.
In Brief
Prince breaks military tradition
LONDON Prince Edward, youngest son of Queen Elizabeth II,
resigned from the Royal Marines Monday, breaking with a longstanding
family tradition of military service.
Newspapers had said the 22-year-old Cambridge University graduate
was under family pressure especially from his father, Prince Philip, an
honorary captain general in the Royal Marines to finish his yearlong
officer's training course and uphold the family image of devotion to duty.
But the palace said Edward decided to quit after four months of his
nine-year enlistment because "he does not wish to make the service his
long-term career."
No specific reason was given for Edward's resignation, and the prince
made no public statements.
The Sun newspaper said when it broke the story last Wednesday that
Edward was quitting because he found the training "too tough and
demanding."
Ethiopian plane crash lulls 54
LONDON An Ethiopian air force plane carrying 54 passengers and
crew crashed in the Eritrean provincial capital of Asmara on Tuesday and
killed everyone on board, the official radio reported.
According to the report on the official Ethiopian Radio, monitored in
London by the British Broadcasting Corp., the crash was due to a
mechanical failure.
"It crashed while it was trying to land after developing sudden
problems about three minutes after taking off from Yohannes the Fourth
Airport (in Asmara)," the broadcast said.
Ethiopian Radio gave no further details of the crash, BBC said. It did not
specify the kind of airplane.
An official at the Addis Ababa control tower said in a telephone
int erview with The Associated Press in Nairobi, Kenya, that he knew of the
crash only through the radio report and had no additional details. The
official refused to give his name."
Police arrest hotel employee for New Year's fire
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico A Dupont Plaza Hotel
maintenance worker was arrested Tuesday and
charged with 96 counts of murder for the New Year's
Eve fire at the posh hotel.
The hotel worker, Hector Escudero Aponte, was
the first person arrested in the case, but Justice
Secretary Hector Rivera Cruz said officials believed
he had not acted alone.
Rivera Cruz said in a statement that Escudero
Aponte was charged with "setting fire to the Dupont
Plaza Hotel on New Year's Eve, in agreement with
others." But he said the investigation was continuing
and therefore he could provide no further infor
mation. Escudero Aponte, used a Sterno-like fuel to torch
new furniture stacked in the hotel's ground-floor
ballroon, according to a complaint filed by the FBI
in U.S. District Court.
The 5-page complaint said Escudero Aponte, a
Teamsters member, went to the hotel about 2 p.m.
Dec. 31 and set the fire shortly after a union meeting
broke up. The fire, which killed 96 people and
injured about 140 people, raged out of control
through the ballroom and then through the casino
directly above.
Gov. Rafael Hernandez Colon has said tense
labor-management relations may have been a motive
for the fire, but he has not blamed the Teamsters
union which had planned a strike for midnight
New Year's Eve or hotel management or non
Teamster employees.
The FBI claimed Escudero Aponte confessed to
his role in the fire. He was charged before U.S.
Magistrate Justo Arenas with having "maliciously
damaged and destroyed by means of a fire" the
22-story 439-room hotel.
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College education may improve marriage
possibilities for women, study says
WASHINGTON Going to college no longer dims a
woman's chances for marriage and family, and additional
schooling, in fact, is likely to increase her matrimonial
prospects, a new study says. - .
Census Bureau rsearcher Jeanne E. Moorman reported
Tuesday that the "negative association" between marriage
and education seems to be diminishing, and in coming
years "more highly educated women will be more likely to
marry." ': "
In terms of combining marriage with educations and
careers, women are learning to behave more like men - no
longer having to choose among those options, Moorman
said.
Her findings differ sharply from a study published by Yale
University researchers last year that indicated that women's
marriage prospects dimmed as they pursued educations
and careers.
Although better-educated women have had lower mar
riage rates than those with less schooling in past years, the
negative association between education and marriage
appears on the verge of ending or reversing, Moorman
reported in her study, "The History and the Future of the
Relationship Between Education and Marriage."
That, she said in a telephone interview, is because higher
education is becoming more the norm than the exception
for women, allowing education to become a more common
part of their lives and to blend with family and marriage.
Moorman launched her research last year, following the
widely publicized study by Yale sociologist Neil Bennet that
found that if a college woman wasn't wed by age 30, she
stood little chance of ever being married.
