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...peripheral to the case under investigation. Further, the Court says that by requiring newsmen to divulge sources, given this legal recourse, it is imposing no prior restraint nor any other shackle forbidden by the Constitution. Yet the practical effect of the Court's decision is that no mobster, no political dissident, no corrupt Congressman, nor any other person involved in illegal activities, will (provided he has any sense) discuss those activities with the press. The knowledge that anything said to a reporter is subject to grand jury scrutiny effectively restricts the ability of the press to expose, investigate and analyze...
While no new bodies have turned up, New York's Mafia war, triggered by last month's murder of Mobster Joey Gallo (TIME, April 17), is still as hot as ever. Federal agents have learned that at least eight more Mafiosi have been marked for death. The toll might already have been higher if a massive raid by eight carloads of FBI men and New York state troopers last week had not temporarily disarmed at least part of one of the gangs...
...lucky coincidence, says Movie Producer Martin Gosch, that The Godfather has burst upon the movie-going world just ten years after Lucky Luciano gasped his last in the Naples airport. When Lucky suffered his fatal coronary, he and Gosch were discussing a movie of the mobster's life-a movie that Gosch agreed would not be made for ten years. Now the ten years are up and Gosch plans to start shooting next year. "This man was No. 1, the kingpin, probably one of the most complex personalities that ever lived," he says. "He designed the rackets...
...some ways it was ironic that the bloodletting should erupt now. Until last summer, many Americans were half-persuaded that the Mafia was chimerical. In New York, Mobster Joseph Colombo organized the Italian-American Civil Rights League, using many law-abiding Italian-Americans as a shield for the Syndicate. The Mafia and La Cosa Nostra, the league argued, were anti-Italian figments of the FBI'S imagination. Colombo even succeeded in embarrassing the producer of The Godfather into deleting the two names from the script. Then, at a "Unity Day" celebration in Manhattan's Columbus Circle last June...
Four other men attached to the Mob were hit. Bruno Carnevale, a "soldier" in the Carlo Gambino family,* was felled by a shotgun blast near his house in Queens Village, and died with $1,400 still in his pocket. A day later Tommy Ernst, a Staten Island mobster, was fatally wounded. A New Jersey janitor named Frank Ferriano was found in a lower Manhattan parking lot with half his head blown off by a shotgun blast. Hours later Richard Grossman, said to be a credit-card swindler working for the Colombo family, was found in the trunk...