European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 02, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday november 2, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 7 . Mob helped organize sicilians informant says crime figure Charles Lucky Luciano new York a two of America s most Noto rious gangsters Joseph Bonanno and Charles Lucky Luciano offered encouragement and advice As italian mafia Leader formed a Central commission in the 1950s, & sicilian mobster turned informant testified thursday. Creation of he commission in Sicily was intended to he-1 a do cad Long rift Between italian and american organized crime Tommaso Buscetta told jurors As he testified for a third Day in the pizza connection drug trial. Prosecutors in the Case charge that 22 defendants rep resenting a coalition of mafia factions in both countries conspired to ship $1.65 billion Worth of heroin to the United states Between 1975 and 1984 and to smuggle millions of dollars in Cash abroad to suppliers of the drug. The Case was dubbed pizza connection because prosecutors allege the drugs were distributed through pizza Parlours in the Northeast and Midwest. Buscetta has provided information that italian authorities credit for prompting More than 400 arrests of suspected mafia figures in Italy in the past several years. His testimony in new York however is the first time he has publicly told his Story. For much of this Century american and italian crime syndicates have been organized along similar lines. Bus Celta said. But in America relations Between families had been coordinated by a commission since the 1930s, Buscot la said while sicilian crime groups had no counterpart for several decades. It was in 1957 that Bonanno Hen the head of the american commission according to his autobiography suggested during a visit to Sicily that the sicilians form i similar group Buscetta said. Bonanno who retired to Arizona in 1968, was jailed for contempt of court after he refused to testify about his knowledge of the american commission. Eleven men including the five reputed leaders of new York s mafia families Are under indictment in a separate Case for a tic Pating in the commission. Luciano the Man credited by . Authentic with organizing the american commission was imprisoned in 1936, paroled in 1945 and deported to his native Sicily. He died there in 1962. Luciano liked the idea of a sicilian commission and offered suggestions to help carry it out Buscetta said. Buscetta was imprisoned in Sicily in the Early 1970s and remained in custody until 1980. After his release he said he was offered a Job in the mafia heroin Trade but turned it Down for fear of being sent Back to prison. Postal clerks enrolled in Carnegie Charm class Boston a the . Postal service is trying to erase the image of Post Al workers As sullen and slow by prescribing Charm classes for window clerks who Are taught to be courteous to customers who gel Turfy waiting in line. School began three weeks ago for 88 postal employees in the Boston area and postal officials have already deemed the program a Success. It s been a Long time coming but i m glad it s finally Here said Jane Saganov service coordinator for the postal service in Boston. Now postal workers Are finally getting some Pride in their  Saganov said the impression of postal workers u Lazy is unfair but any slip up makes the service look. Bad. We Tell them they Are the salesmen of our company. We Tell them you Are not jut i postal clerk. You Are not just a letter Carrier. You Are the Post office. And that one incident leaves a customer sour " the classes arc taught by instructors from the Dale Carnegie self improvement school. They urge the clerks to share Inci dents in which they soothed an angry Patron by putting themselves in the customer s shoes. I just figure some of them have had burned last for breakfast and they Aren t really angry at you said one of the Stu dents Theresa o Connor a 19-year Veteran of the postal service. O Connor a window clerk at the Newt a Center Post office recalled the time she dodged a scale that Wai hurled at her by a customer. I just handled it in a very Low key relaxed manner. I said do you mind if i wait on a customer while you decide what to do for an encore and believe it or not the person started laughing she said. The classes tried experimentally last summer in Albany n.y., were introduced in the Boston area by postmaster Philip l. Sullivan As part of a program to improve communications among employees and with the Public Saganov said. The Cost of the classes held once a week for six weeks is $750 per student and is paid by the Post office. But that is really so minute when you consider the number of transactions that a window clerk performs a Day Saganov said. If he sends away satisfied customers that Money is nothing Sullivan Hof that All 350 clerks in his District will eventually take the course. De pending on the results the program could be expanded to other Post offices nation wide Saganov said. Most customers gripes have nothing to do with the window clerk said Bob Rooney who Waits on 200 to 300 customers a Day in Boston s Charlestown Section. A lot of times it s about the letter car Rier who they never get to Sec. Whether we re involved in the problem does t seem to matter he said. To them we Are the Post office the visible Post  Steve Albanse the president of the american postal workers Union local said customers Don t understand the expertise involved in being a window clerk. Albanse said Selling Stamps is Only a Liny portion of the Job. It s not a simple matter when someone walks up to you and says they want to mail a Plant to Ecuador he said. There arc a lot of rules and Laws you have to  instructor Daniel Grancy said he s been pleased beyond belief by the enthusiasm of the postal workers enrolled in the classes. Cher Jenner among disabled achievers prominent dyslexia sufferers honoured Washington a Cher the actress and linger says she can t dial a Long distance Telephone number and u a Terri ble Reader but like Many of the 25 million americans with dyslexia she s found a Way i round her Handicap. Cher was one of a half dozen prominent people honoured As outstanding learning disabled achiever to the lab school of Washington a private federally supported institution where 160 dyslexic children and adults Are getting an education. The other award winners cited for the Way they Learned strategies to Cope live successfully and Excel in their Fields were g. Chris Andersen managing director of drawl Burnham Lambert a Wall Street investment banking firm olympic decathlon Champion Bruce Jenner artist Robert Rauschenburg Dallas real estate Developer Richard c. Strauss and movie actor Tom  six were congratulated by Nancy Reagan at a White House ceremony. Dyslexia is a neurological disorder Cen tired in the brain causing its victims to have great difficulty in Reading writing spelling and doing math problems. Al though they Are otherwise healthy and May have above average intelligence dyslexic children often Are mistakenly regarded As Lazy or even mentally retarded. There is no cure for dyslexia and the causes Are still a mystery although medical Artolo Stoger actress Cher. Learned to Cope scientists believe it May hive something to do with the Early formation of brain cells. It is seven times More Likely to occur in males and ii believed to be hereditary. Dyslexic children confuse the letters a and a or a and  they transpose Letten when writing a word so Brown dog comes out Borwn  they do not hear the difference Between pen and pin for example. A dyslexic teen Ager May be Able to Dis cuss Homer but not recite the Days of the week or the alphabet in sequence. Another May be Able to identify fossils but loses his Homework and cannot remember where his next class is. Sally l. Smith founder and director of the lab school Calls dyslexia a neurological deficit in the brain Akin to a Telephone switchboard with some Loose wires that somehow Are Short circuiting the incoming and outgoing  some famous dyslexics of the past Are Albert Einstein inventor Thomas Edison former vice president Nelson a. Rockefeller Gen. George s. Patton sculptor Auguste Rodin president Woodrow Wilson and Hans Christian Andersen who could not read or write and was forced to dictate his fairy tales to scribes. Cher dropped out of High school bored and discouraged by repeated failures but went on to a successful career As a Singer and actress in such movies As mask and  Cher said in an interview that she never realized she was dyslexic until she was about 30, when she arranged for medical tests for her daughter chastity a poor achiever in elementary school. Mother and daughter were devastated to learn they had learning disabilities she said. Pentagon gets Golden fleece for paper costs Washington a sen. William Proxmire d-wis., gave his monthly Golden fleece award thurs Day to the Pentagon for spending si62 million a year to produce and buy newspapers and magazines. The poor taxpayer is being dog eared and sent to the bindery with this expense Proxmire said. He gives the Golden recce for what he considers to be the most wasteful ridiculous or ironic use of the taxpayers  the Pentagon had no comment. Proxmire said the Pentagon is the world s largest consumer of newspapers and magazines with is 19.3 Mil lion spent each year to Purchase an estimated 1.9 million  there Are no management controls Over these purchases which Are approved routinely probably be cause the Cost of each individual subscription is not very High Proxmire said. But add them All up and you get a real  the Pentagon also publishes 126 civilian personnel bulletins and news letters 25 safety bulletins Anil 40 re Tiree newsletters and bulletins he said