European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 24, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday december 24, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 7 for mafia new York City still town of tall shadows new York a Joseph Bonanno one of the new York mafia s founding godfathers called the City Thi Volcano a cauldron of Money Power and intrigue where most of the old boys died in the  last week Paul Castellano joined the likes of Joe the Boss mass Ria Albert Anastasia. Carmine Galante and Joseph Colombo mob Bosses of the past half Century who commanded great respect yet came to violent ends. Through it All the City has remained the mafia s Capi Tal Home of about half its members and five of its largest most wealthy crime families. The simple fact As author Gay Talese noted in his Bonanno family history. Honor thy father is that new York is where the Money is. A Hijacker s Paradise a town of tall shadows Sharp angles and crooked people fro i top to  the mafia in new York consists of about 850 made men mostly of Southern italian ancestry who have been formally inducted into the secret criminal society. Police say the mob also has about 3,000 criminal associates. Despite aging members internal wars and Federal indictments the five families Gambino Genovese la chose Colombo and Bonanno diminish the Standard of living of millions ranging from workers whose interests arc sold out by their corrupt unions to heroin addicts who must steal constantly to maintain their habits. According to Law enforcement officials mob extortion drives construction costs in the City about 20 percent higher than necessary. A mob garbage carting monopoly on suburban Long Island costs Consumers about $10 million a year. In the City the monopoly probably hikes commercial garbage collection fees about 50 percent. Despite a decline the mafia still is involved with the importing of a substantial amount of the heroin that enters greater new York. Organized crime according to John Hogan head of the Fri s new York Bureau hits us on the Job. Hits us in stores hits us in the houses we live in on the roads we drive  but the mafia is a Paradox a legend born of 50 years of underworld invincibility has now attracted withering at Tention from Law enforcement agencies. Virtually every major mafia Leader in new York is strikes some As unpatriotic under indictment or in prison. On thursday a reputed rising Star. Michael Franzese was accused in a Federal indictment of defrauding the state of new Jersey of More than $3 million in gasoline taxes. John got i is touted As cast Llano s successor As Gambi no Boss. Last september Gotti allegedly slapped and robbed of $325 a Man who had honked his firn at Gotti in a parking dispute. Golgi was easily located and arrested by police and now faces trial next year for assault and robbery. This is the head of an organized crime family asked g. Robert Plakcy. A Law professor at the University of notre Dame and an expert on organized crime. He s a  meanwhile the mafia has been losing its grip on new York s underworld. Sections of the City Are controlled variously by colombians cubans Blacks russians and chinese. Police estimate that More than a fourth of mafia Gam bling operations have been taken Over by hispanics or Blacks. Last week . Attorney Rudolph Giuliani said the mafia s share of heroin importation had declined substantially below 1981 estimates of 50 to 70 percent. But mob prosecutions Haven t had any discernible Impact on organized crime s ability to recruit new members it just creates new openings said Howard Abadinsky a criminologist who founded the International association for the study of organized crime. The reason he said is that the heart of the mafia is neither its top Bosses nor its Street level soldiers but the capos who actually run rackets and recruit members. These people operate independently of each other he said. The fact the Boss is in jail won t Stop anything. Instead of head Hunting for 74-year-old men. We should go after the ones who Are making the  in his autobiography Man of Honor Joseph Bonan no wrote the Volcano because of its intense Energy and contested wealth was not a Safe place for fathers of mafia families. In other cities with Only one family. Fathers. Enjoyed Long careers and died of natural causes he recalled. In new York City however where strife was almost routine. Fathers fed precarious  Paul cast Llano s death last week underlined just How precarious. A founding mafia godfather Joseph Bonanno or. Paul cast Llano non English a Verf sements for Coke Faffing Flat los Angeles a coca cola might think that Coke loss is smart Busi Ness but a Boom in Spanish language advertising strikes some people As downright unpatriotic. What they arc doing tends to separate our citizens and our people by language. This leads to dangerous divisiveness said Stanley Diamond head of the California chapter of the advocacy group . English. He says his state chapter which mounted a Coupon Campaign against the Spanish yellow pages will raise the advertising Issue during its 1986 Campaign for an initiative making English California s official language. Us. Companies spent an estimated $333.5 million on Spanish language Adver Tising in 1985, up 17 percent from 1984. Advocates of English As the country s offi Cial language Are squawking. The corporate Rush to reach the growing hispanic Market includes such consumer giants As Procter & Gamble. Anheuser Busch Mcdonald a Ford motor co. And Philip Morris which hispanic business Magazine says led the pack with $7 million spent in 1985. We object to Philip Morris or any other companies who arc advertising in languages other than English said Diamond. Of the $333.5 million spent on Advertis ing this year $140.5 million went for television commercials $118 million for radio spots $33 million for print and $30 million for promotional activity and $12 million was spent on billboards according to his panic business. Most advertising is in Span ish though English is sometimes mixed in. This fall Diamond s san Francisco based chapter circulated coupons for a mail in protest against a Spanish language yellow pages. Pacific Bell spokesman Larry Mobbs said 5,000 protest forms had been received. We certainly would feel that the corporations the Telephone company with the Spanish yellow pages should  said Diamond. We will do everything we can to put this advertising in English  Pacific Bell and companies with Spanish language advertising campaigns cite his panic household income estimated at $83.8 billion in the United states this year and language preference As reasons for pitching to hispanics in Spanish. Our studies indicate most hispanics do speak English but they feel More Comfort Able doing business in Spanish said Mobbs. We feel that it the Spanish Yel Low pages is just another tool for a Span ish speaking person to become acclimated to the business climate in  some . English members sense a deeper meaning when Anheuser Busch says Bud a Ciser is Para usted is for you or coca cola claims Coke Loes Coke is it. In Florida . English Leader Terry Robbins plans to target corporations after completing a Campaign to declare English that state s official language. I be targeted government first. Then 1 will go on to the private sector in the next few months she said. She already has written As a private citizen to Mcdonald s and Burger King protesting Spanish in fast food menus. Why docs poor Juan or Maria have a problem ordering a whopper she asked. It in t that they Aren t Able to they Don t want  she also protested a housing development advertising Only in Spanish to the dad county housing and employment appeals Board. This fall the National . English organization asked the Federal communications commission to ensure availability of English language stations Whir licensing for eign language radio stations. In some areas of Texas along along the mexican Border it s difficult to get an English language station. Most of them Are in Spanish said . English head Gerda Bikulcs in Washington . I Don t think there should be any area of the United slates where you have trouble getting an English language  von Bulow looking for peaceful life in Europe Providence . A Claus von Bulow acquitted in june of twice trying to kill his heiress wife says he will leave the United states Early next year and set up permanent residence in Europe. I want to be forgotten and live peacefully " the 59-year-old danish born financier said in an interview aired sunday on War to of Providence. Von Bulow on the advice of his attorneys did not visit his comatose wife mar tha sunny von Bulow during his retrial. But he said he now visits her frequently at a new York Hospital. Yes i have visited sunny he said. But i Don t want to discuss it. It s a very emotional matter. This whole thing is such a  the retrial in Providence this year came after the Rhode Island supreme court overturned von Bulow s 1982 convictions on two charges of attempted murder. The state charged von Bulow was driven by greed and lust to try to kill his wife with insulin injections so he could reap her huge Fortune and marry his then mistress Alexandra Isles. Mrs. Von Bulow has been in what doctors consider an irreversible coma for five years. Von Bulow said his live in Girlfriend an Drea Reynolds Likely would accompany him to Europe. We have a wonderful relation  he said. But you can have a Good relationship without going to the  he said he would return to the United states on occasion to take care of business and Legal mailers