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82 Premieres 83 Write quickly 86 Husky treat? 87 Ace's value, at times 88 Burning 89 Stow throw 90 Allow 91 Where to live and learn? 92 Castor and Pollux's mom 94 Humiliate 95 Mountain cats 96 Fowl pole? 97 Staff symbol 98 Funny Fanny 99 Man of La Mancha 102 The3MCo.etal. 103 Soup veggie 106 Musical sensitivity 107 Rod abbr. 108 Delight 109 Flagstaff sch. VOL 10 IS HERE! For info on ordering signed copies of Mert's puzzle books, send an SASE to: Crosswords, Box 15066, Tampa FL 33684. Or visit www.

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1 1 5 Rights slogan on 70s bumper stickers 116 Spew like oil 117 Less risky DOWN 1 1921 defendant 2 "Bless you" preceder 3 Pack animal 4 Julia's Oscar role 5 Firefighters, often 6 A suit 7 Field marshals? 8 Clumsy one 9 Panel hosts, e.g. 10 Wooden pin 11 Tom Jones hit, "She's 12 Tweetys voice 13 Bag, in brand names -4 FINISHING TOUCHES MR. DURHAM: And there was a second attempt to kill him at a rotary. MR. SALEMME: Right.

MR. DURHAM: In that one he lost his hand, but there was some other collateral damage to houses and stuff. JH. MR. SALEMME: There were ricochets.

It was a rural area, but there was still houses around, and those high powered weapons, they hit and they ricochet and they travel. There was some collateral damage, as John said, to houses around. So I had a conversation with Paul about it afterwards. He said boy, that was a sloppy piece of MR. WILSON: So you had a conversation with Paul Rico about that second attempt to kill McLaughlin? I- MR.

SALEMME: Right. MR. WILSON: To the extent you can remember, and I know it's a long time ago, what did you tell him and what did he say to you? MR. SALEMME: See, Paul had a way. Paul was a very shrewd individual.

He'd make it like, he'd have the papers and say boy, what a sloppy piece of work that was, otherpeople could have got hurt. There were a lot of other words and a lot of other conversation in with that, but the bottom line is Paul, 1 don't have his address, he's a tough guy to pin down, but I don't know where his starting point is. MR. WILSON: So you told Rico you didn't know where he was? t. MR.

SALEMME: Right. Within a day or two days he came back, and he'd just be patting your shoul-der like he usually does, and he hit my hand, I went like this, he kept walking, and there was a piece of paper with an address, and I didn't have to ask anymore. I knew who it was. It was I Ielcn Kro-nis, Punchy's girlfriend or common law wife or whatever. So I went out and started to work on that, and I put the finishing touches on that within three or four days.

MR. WILSON: So you're at Revere Beach and Paul Rico has told you Robert Daddeico's going to testify. Is that correct? MR. SALEMME: Right. MR.

WILSON: And he tells you to get out of town? MR. SALEMME: Right. MR. WILSON: Does he tell you anything else at this time? MR. SALEMME: I'm sure there was conversation, but I can't remember just what again, in retrospect, he didn't have to say too much to make me MR.

WILSON: If you can walk us through what happened next with your departure from the Bos-ton area. MR. SALEMME: Well, we drove to Illinois, to Chicago. MR. WILSON: Let me back you up here.

It's my understanding you left with Stephen Flemmi and Peter Poulos and got a car from Peter Poulos. Is that correct? MR. SALEMME: I don't know if we got the car from him or my garage. I'm not sure. I think it was a Cadillac we left in, so it might have been from the garage.

We had access to plates. At that time we had direct access to the registry of motor vehicles. We could go anywhere in the city and get identification, get plates, talk to jurors after hours at night in the court, anything. We had that kind of access in the city of Boston. But we drove to Chicago, and then we flew to Los Angeles from Chicago.

Now, they were going to stay out there, but I didn't think it was a good idea for us to stay together. I don't know how long I stayed there. I don't even think I left the airport. But I flew back to New York, and I hooked up with a fellow by the name of William Candelmo, who was a king man with Raymond Patriarca, with our New England group, and I stayed there. Steve stayed in L.A.

and eventually drove back with Poulos, and he eliminated Poulos in Las Vegas, in Clark County. Now, we got some kind of papers or informal ion from Los Angeles while we were down in Plymouth that prints of Poulos and Flemmi were found in some rooming house or some house in Los Angeles. And when they found the body in Las Vegas they put out an anest warrant for him and I. And lie ends up in New York, Steve Flemmi. He goes to Billy Candelmo store.

There were different places that we had around so in case of emergencies you can go to these people. We stayed in Billy's apartment on 8th Avenue and 45th Street. The "Man from La Mancha" was playing right across the street. I used to look out and watch the lines. That's the year it was.

But I got into a conversation, why did you do that to Pete Poulos, there was no plan to eliminate Poulos. He would have been a threat, you know, he witnessed Wimpy's murder, he drove Walter there, he would have been a threat. And I said I don't even think Peter Poulos got indicted. To the best of my knowledge, he never got indicted for either 'one, the car bombing or the Billy Bennett murder. William and Edward Bennett were brothers.

We didn't know he wasn't getting indicted, and that's why he earned But to eliminate him like that, Steve, you know, come on. Oh, it had to be done, he would have been a weak link, they would have made a witness out of him. That's what happened to him. MR. WILSON: Just to back up for a second, you've come back to New York, Poulos and Stephen Flemmi are still out in Los Angeles, and then at some point after that Stephen Flemmi comes to New, York.

Is that correct? MR. SALEMME: Right, by way of Las Vegas. MR. WILSON: Let's leave that out, because you don't know that's happening at that point. But you see Stephen Flemmi, you come to this place in New York, and what does he tell you? When did you first learn that Poulos had been killed? MR.

SALEMME: It was on the news. It came on the news. MR. WILSON: So you learned about it from the news before talking to Stephen Flemmi? MR. SALEMME: Right.

Billy Candelmo found out because he used to go back and forth to Providence just to talk to Raymond, to talk to JP, Raymond's brother, when Raymond was back in ACI in Rhode Island. Joe Patriarca would go see him and talk to Billy and see what was happening, keeping abreast of things, so he learned that Peter Poulos got killed MR. WILSON: At that point did you know where Stephen Flemmi was? MR. SALEMME: When I found out about Poulos, no, but I knew he was there. I mean, I knew Poulos was with him, so it was just a simple deduction to figure out what happened.

When I saw it MR. WILSON: So when is the next time you saw Flemmi? MR. SALEMME: When he came to New York. MR. WILSON: And did he tell you what happened? MR.

SALEMME: Yes, that he would have been a weak link, that he had to do it. That would be his way of operating. He wouldn't do that in front of her, but he'd want to solidify his safety, to travel with a woman and not be traveling alone. He got stopped, too, he said, by a Las Vegas state trooper and he had all kinds of material in the trunk. I said, what do you mean.

He said he had a shovel and a rope and all that shit in there. He had a gun under the seat. They didn't hold him, but they did stop him. I don't know if there's any record of that, but they stopped him, him and Poulos, but he couldn't put him under. He said the desert's not soft.

I said, what were you thinking, it's the Sahara? I said this is Nevada, this isn't North Africa. MR. DURHAM: Well, you said he wasn't a planner. MR. SALEMME: Definitely not a planner, no.

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