European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 3, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes thursday april 3, 1986 step up fight against crime panel urges stronger actions at state level vital presidential commission says. Washington a the Legal profession must suited in the commission s leaving important issues Lunexa the Federal racketeer statute also allows authorities to rid itself of mob connected lawyers while states must at mined most notably the questions of the effectiveness of seize the ill gotten proceeds of criminal enterprises. To tack organized crime with electronic surveillance and Federal and state anti organized crime  said one he tip Etc he a Frt a i. Grand juries says a presidential commission investigating organized crime. More powerful Law enforcement tools at the state level Are vital if the Power of the mafia and the emerging clout of outlaw motorcycle gangs and ethnic crime groups is to be broken the president s commission on organized crime concluded tuesday. In its final report before going out of business after More than 2 /2 years the presidential panel said that organized crime will reap More than $100 billion this year will Cost the country More than 400,000 jobs and will Cut a typical person s income by nearly $80. Organized crime s proceeds from heroin cocaine and marijuana trafficking this year will total As much As $55 billion concluded the commission relying on a study per formed for it by Wharton econometric forecasting associates of Philadelphia. The increasing sophistication and specialization of Industry the growth of permissiveness reflected in increased use of illicit drugs. Have All contributed to the changing shape and enduring presence of organized crime in this country the panel s chairman Irving Kaufman said in an introduction. While the 19-member commission agreed on general approaches to fighting organized crime More than half the members filed supplemental views critical of portions of the panel s work. Organize efforts group of nine commissioners including Jesse a. Brewer jr., Deputy chief of the los Angeles police department. Among the shortcomings were that the commission has failed to address the roles of american Biack and jewish organizations in organized crime the nine said. The commission did examine a number of cuban chinese japanese and other ethnic gang operations As Well As activities of numerous outlaw motorcycle gangs. Among other things the panel concluded that ethnic criminal groups Are becoming More powerful in Many cities and that in new York there Are Strong ties be tween chinese gangs and la Cosa Nostra  while acknowledging that the commission has done some Good work the nine also said the panel s investigators had failed to make a Complete National and Region by Region analysis of organized crime. The study did conclude that the role of state and local Law enforcement agencies must be stepped up. A dozen states authorize pm panelling statewide grand juries and 29 authorize wiretaps and the remainder of the states should follow suit the report said. The report also urged the adoption by All states of racketeering statutes modelled after the Federal racketeer influenced corrupt organizations Law which prosecutors use to attack ongoing patterns of corruption. States must have. Statutory weapons if they Are successfully to combat organized crime within their Juris Date said the report studies show that forfeiture provi Sions Are not fully utilized in the  the study also criticized the Legal profession for not doing enough to Root out corrupt mob lawyers who Aid and abet the illegal criminal enterprises of organized crime. The report includes five Case studies of lawyer Crimi nals who the commission said actively participate in organized crime. The five cases presented by the presidential panel in clude a new York attorney alleged to have participated in an organized crime conspiracy to thwart a grand jury investigation into the French connection theft of narcotics from the new York police department. The commission also cited the Case of a new York lawyer with close links to the Gambino organized crime family who was overheard by eavesdropping Law enforce ment agents discussing the fees to be paid to a bribed government investigator. The investigator was to provide information regarding Federal criminal probes. The commission recommended that the Legal profession change its rules of professional conduct to require an at Torney to report serious misconduct by another attorney. Disciplinary bodies should More aggressively investigate lawyer misconduct cases and Law enforcement agencies should use wiretaps and informants to investigate lawyers1c" i 111 i it i s Vic Elk _1 1 1 1 if 1  v 1u.ttt we t7 n ,.diction said the report which added that 23 states have and rid the profession of attorneys suspected of organized poor management of time Money and staff has re such Laws. Crime activity it added. A photo fighting classification Susie Guillory Phipps of Sulphur la., lost another round in her eight year struggle to change her racial designation on her birth certificate from coloured to  Phipps is challenging a Loui Siana Law that says anyone with 1/32 of Black blood is Black. Phipps says she s White but the state traces her ancestry to a slave and a French planter who moved to the state in the 1760s. School hamburgers on hold As beef is fest eco Tor pesticide by the associated press Public school students in California Are being served beef less lunches after officials Cut out ground beef pending tests of government supplied meat for a potentially can cer causing pesticide officials said. Last week the . Agriculture department told a Kansas school officials not to use ground beef and beef patties processed by companies that received meat from slaughterhouses in Missouri Oklahoma Arkansas and Kansas that Are being checked for Hep Bachlor contamination. The us a halted distribution of ground beef produced by four Texas companies and a Losangeles Plant pending tests officials said tuesday at Sacramento Calif. The five packing houses Supply the meat for the nation s school lunch program. The banned pesticide has t been found in 22 samples of meat bought for the school lunch program but about 360 samples still must be tested Donald l. Houston adminis Trator of the department s food safety and inspection service said tuesday. Houston said the results confirm our belief that there appears to be no widespread problem with Hep Bachlor contamination of the meat  Nancy Robinson of the us a food safety and inspection service in Washington d.c., said results of the other tests should be available by the end of the week. Some of the beef has been traced to schools in califor Nia said Steve Delano of the donated food program in Sacramento. The schools have a mix of Stock some Good and some which May be bad he said. As a result said Richard Farrar director of food serv ices for the san Francisco unified school District we be put All our hamburgers on hold until further  twelve of 352 meat samples from Missouri Oklahoma and Arkansas have been found to contain excessive amounts of Hep Bachlor which was banned for most Agri cultural uses in 1978 after being linked to cancer in Laboratory animals officials said. Danielle Schor Public affairs specialist for the food and safety inspection service said tuesday that six of the 12 tainted samples were reported a week ago with the Hep Bachlor Content ranging from 0.4 parts per million to 7.4 parts per million. According to Fra regulations meat is not supposed to contain More than 0.3 parts per million of Hep Bachlor and milk no More than 0.1 parts per million. The samples came from three Dairy cows one Bull and two hogs from six farms in Arkansas five hogs from one farm in Missouri and a Bull from a farm in Oklahoma Robinson said. The us a began testing meat after the food and drug administration discovered Hep Bachlor in milk in Arkansas. Officials have said a Van Buren ark., company sold Hep Bachlor tainted Grain to Dairy Farmers in Arkansas Missouri and Oklahoma. Thousands of Gallons of Leptach Lor contaminated milk products have been recalled in the last month. Police lose Trail of escaped convict in Nevada Winnemucca Nev. A blood hounds have lost the scent of a self styled Mountain Man who escaped from an Idaho prison where he was serving a 30-year Pris on term for killing two wildlife officers. Reports of sightings of Claude Dallas have been received from Canada and investigators said they found a note saying he was headed toward Texas with at least one hostage. On tuesday afternoon bloodhounds Fol Lowed Dallas scent to an abrupt end at . 95, the main route Between Southwest Ern Idaho and Nevada. Humboldt county sheriff James Bagwell said that indicates he May have gotten a ride and speculated it could have been planned in Advance. Idaho state Penitentiary Warden Arvon Arave said he had received reports that Dallas had been seen in Calgary Canada Seattle and Boise Idaho. A note found at a truck Stop in Laramie wyo., said Dallas was heading to Texas armed with a knife and pistol and holding More than one hos Tage Arave said. Bagwell told a news conference that two bloodhounds had detected Dallas scent at the Paradise Hill bar outside Winnemucca. The search was to resume wednesday in the area. The owner of the bar George Nielsen said he had t seen Dallas since he was captured in 1982, after eluding authorities for 16 months. Dallas 36, a trapper and survivalist escaped sunday from the Penitentiary near Boise. He was serving a 30-year sentence for voluntary manslaughter in the 1981 shooting deaths of two game officers who were killed while trying to arrest him for poaching. Tuesday s search was entered in hum Boldt county where Dallas was captured in 1982. Authorities in Reno received a tip that he was holed up at a camping trailer in the county monday night. Authorities staked out the trailer Over night and took dogs in tuesday. The door of the trailer was open and dogs detected Dallas scent on a Bedroll. Bagwell said the camper was unoccupied while Dallas was there monday. The hounds followed Dallas scent for i to Miles until they lost it at the Highway bag Well said. Bagwell speculated that Dallas returned to Humboldt county because he knows the land and the people who could offer him help. Authorities have said a car Matching the description of one  by Dallas last visitor at the prison was spotted Early Mon Day at Nielsen s bar. The car owned by Geneva Holman was impounded by Wash of county authorities for further investigation and Killeen declined to comment whether any additional evidence was founding the vehicle. Although authorities said she was not questioned in connection with the escape she has denied knowledge of Dallas escape plans