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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 15, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday August 15, 1978 the stars and stripes Page 1 Memphis own strike Force striking Memphis policemen wave Dps banners and homemade night Stykki As they gather in the City s Down town mall for a show of Defiance against a court Back to work order an ultimatum from the mayor and a plea from their own Union. Sunday night National guardsmen in riot gear swept through the streets in jeeps and a Mored personnel carriers rounding up picketing police officers who violated dusk to Dawn curfew. About $0 strikers were arrested and charged with Viola Tion of the curfew and threatening a breach of peace. A mob would foil future testimony $1 million on head Bordach says Washington up Gary Bow Dach the former Syndicate hit Man who testified about organized crime in Senate bearings last week said sunday he Learned to underworld has placed a is million Rice on his Bead. Bordach 35, a confessed murderer armst and dope smuggler now serving a 15 get sentence for loan sharking in Miami of has detailed crimes of his former Cro tet Federal authorities. Now under the Federal witness protect to program Bordach told up in a Tele Wittne interview that his greatest danger sawed by his plans to testify for the gov ent in future trials of top crime Fig a marshals would not permit a face a Meryhew. A has own informant Price on me at this time As i am wag it from somebody in Miami is $1mov Bordach said. The self de hoodlum turned informant said he Las informant of us own in Miami. To Jere Are Many cases that Are going to a Jim in Federal court on information supplied especially inform to investigations of a Sensi Street Bordach said. At least that Way m looking at it. The other Way i go to Steep and i be got 200 Guys sleeping around me and i Don t know who my Assassin  Bordach who says he started in Crim because his parents were working and could not supervise him properly said he wanted to Tell americans about the Dan Gers of organized crime and How to help authorities combat it. It will take an Effort on the part of the people of the United states because every time they bet $2 with a bookmaker or smoke a stick of marijuana they Are contributing to the coffers of organize crime Bordach said. There is no such thing As a  Bordach has confessed to one murder and testified about three other attempts to Mil people for revenge. He said he kept his reputation As a Tough Guy by using base Ball bats on delinquent customers of his loan sharking business. He ended up As bodyguard and hit Man for one of the Southeast s biggest narcotics syndicates. If my elevations can keep one More Young Man from entering a life a crime then it has not All been in vain Bordach  a school dropout he said he read widely and took College courses imprison. He has a wide vocabulary and care Ful grammar which he says is not unusual among today s mob. I College degrees flowed freely in my family he said. Many years of item ment gave me much Opportunity to Edu Cate myself in furtherance of my criminal  the typical Black shirt and White tie hoodlum shown in movies decades ago he said the successful organized crime figure of today. In appearance and speech comes across like a business  on the other Side of the Coin he is As cold and ruthless As his counterparts of years ago Bordach said. Needless to say. I have Given up my flamboyant lifestyle by burning my Bridges behind me for a More Serene life devoted to my. Family and loved ones Bordach said. Car truck sales High predicted Detroit up car and truck Salesin the United states will reach a record 15.4 million units this year and will Edge slightly upward in 1979 on continued eco nomic expansion general motors  Thomas a. Murphy predicted sunday. Murphy in an end of Model year state ment said gains in employment and per Sonal income this year Are signs of strength in the . Economy that will translate into Strong demand or motor vehicles next year. However be Bac stepped from an ear Lier forecast that passenger car sales us year would top 11.7 million a prediction other Auto company officials and Industry analysts had termed Overly optimistic. Big a predicted he said Domestic and foreign car Mak ers will finish the year with sales of a million units. Truck sales meanwhile a Fol set a record of 4 million units this year an will do even better in 1979, he said. We at pm anticipate that total 1979model year vehicle sales in the . Will surpass the total reached in 1978 and will exceed 15.5 million units. Including imports he said. He said Domestic built cars and trucks will continue to regain sales from imported vehicles. Sales of .-built car this year will top 9.3 million a 4 percent gain Over 1977, while imports will virtually match last year s 2 million unit total. The . Economy has expanded at unimpressive rate during much of the past year despite the unfavourable Impact of severe Winter weather and a protracted Coal strike Murphy said. Underlying momentum Strong gains in employment an Addi Tion of More than 10 million jobs since the current expansion began in april 1975 and rising personal incomes Are evidence of the Economy s underlying momentum he said. Murphy predicted the Gross National product an indicator of the nation s eco nomic expansion should increase at an an Nual rate of 4 percent through 1979. Some Industry analysts disagreed wit the pm chairman s prediction for continued expansion and said car sales will taper off late this year and into Early 1979. Our View of next year is one of a Mil recession nothing like 1974, with car sates Well below the Levels we an looking a now said David Healy analyst for the Wall Street firm Drexel Burn am Lam Bert. He said car sales next year should approach 10 million units instead of the 11.5 million Murphy predicted with toe in advancing Only 2 percent. ,. _. We be to their the crime Bosses a to have me eradicated prior to Haj going to trial because we Arew about trials upon conviction that be  j5558 the bearings of the Senate invest saw subcommittee. Sen. Sam Nunn 2.g�ve Brief details of one criminal will depend on Bordach s Testi trying to win a Quick parole relocated under an assumed deaf mute survives 2-week ordeal a. 2j?s1 than re enter the prison he says a corrupted guard or in might carry out a contract to kill it rather end up getting shot out in the Fresno Calif. A a deaf an mute teen Ager lived through two weeks without food in the Sierra Nevada because she just knows instinctively to survive her Foster Mother said  s talking in sign language today about How she hid in the Trees from Ani Mals so they could t see  said Julee  Steele 16. Who communicates Only by sign language wandered away from her family s campsite. 6.800 feet High in the mountains on july 29. Fresno county sheriffs officers looked for her All the following week without  Candy was found in Good physical condition saturday by a couple fishing in the Kings River about 12 Miles from the campsite. Candy was Able to make enough noises to attract the attention of Alan an Linda Coday of Visalia. Who took her to a store where deputies were  girl who said in sign language that she existed solely on water from the Kings River was Given some milk and Candy by her  she was driven to a Hospital Here for an examination and returned Home Forest and get treatment for Poison Oak in sect Biles and swollen  s really nothing wrong physically except loss of  said  Foster Mother. Candy lost 20 pounds and now weighs 95 pounds but was not emaciated. Hebbler  tells you what she had Friday night before she took off on saturday an that s the last she remembers  Candy wore a Light tank top and Bluejean and said it was very cold at nig Hebbler said. Temperatures in though Sierra East of Here dipped into the Low 60s at night warmer than Norma Hebbler said that Candy just knows instinctively to survive. I m sure she just kept that on her mind. She had to she s a very determined child. She just sets Hermine on something and Shell do it Candy saw some snakes and either a Fox or Coyote during her two weeks in the Woods. Hebbler said  
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