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After four months of tireless investigation, the law last week finally pointed its finger at the acid thrower who blinded Labor Columnist Victor Riesel (TIME. April 16). The assailant, a 22-year-old hoodlum named Abraham Telvi, who got $1,000 for the brutal job, had already come to crude, ironic justice: he was the victim of a gangland murder triggered by his own hand. But the FBI seized two accomplices linked to labor rackets in New York's garment industry and put together this outline of the crime...
...sallow-faced Gondolfo Miranti, 37, an ex-convict and garment-industry thug with a long record of arrests. From the next table, Miranti kept an eye on the group. As they prepared to leave, he moved swiftly outside, whispered urgently to Telvi, who stood in the shadows. Seconds later, Riesel emerged, and Telvi stepped forward...
...concentrated sulphuric acid hit Riesel right across the eyes, but the fallout from the wide-mouthed bottle sent corrosive little splashes into Telvi's own face. With Miranti's help, the thug rushed for hiding to his girl friend's Manhattan apartment. There Telvi was visited by Joe Carlino, 43, a stocky ex-convict with manicured fingernails. It was Carlino. acting for an "undisclosed principal," who had made the "contract" for Telvi's job, supplied him with the acid, and collected...
...Story (Fri. 9 p.m., NBC). The Victor Riesel Story...
...Riesel's banter gave way to a fist-clenched plea for a congressional investigation of mobsters in organized labor, and he repledged himself to the crusade. "I have no sensitivity about being blind," he said. "They haven't scared me. I can't see, but that doesn't mean I can't write the same kind of copy." In writing it, he can already touch-type and, for note-taking, will learn Braille "or anything else that will help me." Riesel said that he would leave the hospital this week-still with a police bodyguard...