European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 16, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes july 1985 columns William Safire the remarkably unremarked purge in Moscow a quiet convolution is going on inside the soviet no show trials with Public no Zis limousines streaking across red Square at Midnight no Chrushch Vesque secret or exile of lat Ter Day on the the coils of change arc now twisting in the Kremlin in an Undra Matic Way to produce a remarkably unremarked Andrei Gromyko has been cased upstairs to a ceremonial his place at the head of foreign policy taken not by Anatoly Dobrynin but by an unknown georgian party that cannot be explained As the replacement of the Geron Toracy by a new generation of russian Grigory fired last was not one of the Brezhnev Chernenko old guard like Mikhail Gorba was one of the new crop put onto the fast track by the enforcer of Yuri Gorbachev has forced Romanov out for the oldest of reasons the new Man at the top did not want his chief rival looking Over his nor was marshal Nikolai Ogarkow an old fog when he tried to redirect Money from land forces into High technology weaponry last a combination of old soldiers and party stalwarts forced him out As chief of now Ogar Kovs new history teaches Vig is officially noticed his return to the defense ministry would mean that those who opposed his strategy would be on the list for this is no Mere shakeup a purge is under none the less systematic and far reaching for being Dull and much More than the Torch is being this mos cow circus has three rings 1 among the Young in their 50s and the human element of clash ing ambitions is at 2 among the competing institutions the the the Kab a Power struggle is under 3 most among the economic a decision is being made that will profoundly affect the Way the soviet Union is it is news to nobody that the soviet system does not after 70 years of communism it is hard to keep blaming the weather for a nations inability to feed its the Andropov ites now in charge at the Kremlin know that the ignoble Experiment of Central direction has and that great chunks of the party Appart and its present leaders must follow yesterdays me she Viks to history Ash Gorbachev cannot admit he must blame the systemic failure on Lack of or corruption All no ideological and All but not at the heart of the that problem was Laid out for All to see in the no Joseph Sobran distributed by King features Syndicate of Rachev to Sibirsky leaked by the Andropov Gorbachev faction two years what is needed is not Mere or mild Reform toward Market respond but a rooting out of Klasso vye Grumpy groups which have taken Over in the theoretically classless worst of these groups is the commissariat that occupies numerous cozy niches with Illde fined responsibilities the party bureaucrats who Are the Economys most ant productive that heretical paper was written by professor Tatyana a full member of the facade my of who promptly dropped out of in the Gorbachev Zaslavskaya is not Only haranguing colleagues in but being respectfully interviewed in today her protected heresy is even More at tempts to Reform the with managerial autonomy and bonuses to productive will be she with Strong internal what makes her prediction of resistance such hot stuff because in communist contradictions competing interests Are not supposed to be an in of they Are and if they become so you have Laid the groundwork for a top Robottom purge throughout the soviet according to Elizabeth the crack Kremlin Logist and Tatyan tracker for radio free eur the word favored by the russian economist to describe bureaucratic bloat is translated As hyper Tro the unhealthy enlargement of significant while sticking to the no antagonistic orthodoxy in his has picked up that word to lash out at the hypertrophy and degeneration of per Sonal the latest purge is gaining As Ogar Kov teaches vigilance if a purge is not the burgers Are York times Lucky Luciano gave organized crime Savity if crime is much of the credit should go to Charles Lucky born Salvatore Lucania in Sicily in mis life tells you things your civics Book didst even things Machia Velli Luciano grew up in new York and came of age just As prohibition was com ing his Youthful pals included Al Ca Frank Meyer Lansky and Benny flamboyant Capone and Siegel came to unfortunate ends ahead of with costello and brought crime into the 20th Century from feudalism to As it he gave it a Federal Structure by declining a monarchs role when he could have taken and he made the once rigidly sicilian mob open to All As the French Lansky was the great beneficiary of Lucianos equal Opportunity and Luciano benefited from the brilliance of his no sicilian friends by broadening the mobs somewhat As Disraeli and Franklin Roosevelt profited by widening the political Market to include former if the mob had stayed restricted to Luciano himself might not have reached the in the Date Joe Masseria and Salva Tore Maranzano were rivals for the title of Boss of Bosses in new in 1931 Luciano arranged Masserian death for Maran then Maranzano for this left Luciano the de Facto Leader of organized but instead of assuming the title of Boss of he abolished the office and established a nine member commission to Settle it was an imaginative and farsighted under Lucianos re territories were apportioned and mutually respected by families that had formerly muscled in on each with bloody major violence without commission approval was including violence against the Carrot replaced the stick the profit motive replaced the reign of there was enough Money for and enough left Over to invest in bribing Public offi from mayors to cops on the self conscious about his bad grammar and Lack of Lucky Luciano actually had a first rate he gave the rackets a stable Constitution and a profit sharing method that made possible the integration of crime with nor Mal american overt violence dropped sharply corruption spread every unlike Ai Luciano at his Peak was Seldom in the even As he made deals with Al and even Franklin Roosevelt to his dealt with Luciano Only while he had that he had to do business with him at All tells you something about Lucianos what made it All of was the classic Case of bad it was Law pitted against a whole Peoples moral impossible for them to take seriously and so impossible to in because it lacked mobsters like Luciano could enlist consent for their they even acquired Lucianos decline was marked by Iro he had dutch Schultz killed with commission approval to prevent Schultz from killing prosecutor Thomas deprived of his intended Dewey then turned on Luciano and charged him with running the prostitution in a sensational trial that made Dewey Ca Luciano in 1936 was sentenced to 30 to 50 years in to his dying Luciano with some that he had been he regarded drugs and prostitution As filthy beneath his in his memoirs another mob Luciano recalls deciding in prison that Dewey must have been a Crook at heart to stage such a phony making the Best of Luciano swung a Deal with As he later to commute his sentence to in 1946 Luciano was sent to expecting to arrange his return to America he never made not Only did his Power dwindle his constitutional plan was blown to bits by the drug dealing Vito who shot his Way to the top in the pre Luciano costello prudently retired after a Bullet creased his head in Luciano even found himself betrayed by his old pal and the Money stopped com ing from who had always disgusted tried to have my Luciano died nearly in but not before contriving to have Genovese convicted of drug tray old fashioned mob War had crime is still big but it lacks the Savity Lucky Luciano gave Burke said that in losing All its loses half its maybe but Gross vice is easier than refined vice to keep out of polite press Syndicate