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...minority Progressive Labor Party, Walter N.H. Robinson, a portly black lawyer of 55 who just before the murder demanded the removal of any Governor appointed by London, has closed ranks with the ruling United Bermuda Party in deploring the murders. He privately speculated that the crime stemmed from underworld efforts to bring in narcotics...
...advisory committee concluded that marijuana alone is neither hazardous nor detrimental to physical or mental health, and its use should not be a criminal offense. But the commission went a long step further by suggesting Government supervision of production and marketing, ostensibly to keep it from the underworld. Mayor Washington, realistically appraising the mood on Capitol Hill, has no intention of asking Congress for enabling legislation...
Died. Frank Costello, 82, onetime "prime minister of the underworld," whose nervous hands and hoarse voice became familiar to the nation's television viewers during the Senate crime hearings of 1951; following a heart attack; in Manhattan. In the classic pattern, Costello graduated from teen-age street gangs to bootlegging to control of a national slot-machine racket with estimated annual revenues of $2 billion. By investing widely in police, legislators and legitimate businesses, "Uncle Frank" became a power in New York City politics. He managed to elude any major convictions until his reluctance to testify fully before Senator...
...organized gangsters in retaliation against the newspaper's describing them in a story as "a pack of bandits." The thugs have since been captured, and last week police also nailed the leader of the gang, a notorious hoodlum named Michio Sasaki, on charges of engaging in another current underworld practice: shaking down corporations. Sasaki, police contend, used his knowledge of an irregular loan to blackmail one of Tokyo's top banks for $16,000. According to the cops, Sasaki's shakedown of another corporation netted him nearly...
...Mafia, they took a blood oath that was not broken with impunity. For failing to live up to the yakuza code, an offender had to show penitence by cutting off his little finger and presenting it to his oyabun (boss)-a rite that still prevails in the Japanese underworld...