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14 THE BOSTON GLOBE TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1995 Salemme agrees to face charges in Mass. 4 By Lynda Gorov GLOBE STAFF -1 -H 1 -4 10 WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. Looking relaxed and rested, reputed mob boss Francis P. Salemme agreed to be returned to Massachusetts during an appearance here yesterday in US District Court, where he winked, mouthed endearments and blew kisses to Donna Wolf, his companion on the lam. Salemme, known to his cohorts as Cadillac Frank, did not forfeit his right to a bail hearing once back in Boston.

But federal prosecutors told the judge that they consider Salemme both a flight risk and a danger, and will seek to detain him until trial. "I do, your honor," Salemme said in a strong voice when asked whether he understood that he was waiving his right to fight removal to Boston. A spokeswoman for the US marshal's office in Miami said that security concerns prevented her saying when Salemme would be moved. Kieran Fallon, the Miami lawyer hired to represent Salemme here, said he expected that his client would be in Boston later this week. "I'm sure he wants to confront authorities in Massachusetts," said Fallon, who said he knew little about the 35-count indictment against Salemme.

Salemme, the alleged head of the Mafia family that controls most of New England, fled Massachusetts for Florida seven months ago in anticipation of his indictment on racketeering and other charges. He settled in a middle-class condominium complex in West Palm Beach, where he answered the door himself around midnight Friday and was arrested. FBI Special Paul Miller said authorities continue to search south Florida for James J. (Whitey) Bulger, the reputed South Boston mob leader and the only defendant in the case still at large. Yesterday, they requested a photograph of Bulger to circulate in southern Florida, he said.

"We'll check out what we can, because Bulger could still have been in contact with Salemme," Miller said. "Of course, he's heard that Salemme has been picked up by now. But National Briefs Solomonic ruling in body disposal HOUSTON Former Playboy playmate Anna Nicole Smith and the family of late oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall ended a battle over his body yesterday when they agreed to cremate his remains and divide them up for disposal. The settlement, reached after a brief court hearing, left open the question of what happens to the Texan's estimated $500 million fortune, said Diana Marshal, attorney for Smith.

J. Howard Marshall died Aug. 4 at a Houston hospital at the age of 90. (Reuters) House freshmen aided by PACs WASHINGTON The freshman class elected to the House in November after promising new ways of doing business in Congress turned to the political action committees for nearly half its money this year, according to an analysis issued yesterday by Common Cause. The study of Federal Election Commission records by the public interest lobby group found that PAC contributions accounted for 45 percent, or $5 million, of the $11 million raised by the 85 freshmen in the first six months of 1995.

(Washington Post) Talk show sued by victim's kin SOUTHFIELD, Mich. The family of a man who was shot to death after revealing on "The Jenny Jones Show" that he had a crush on another man sued the program yesterday for $25 million. The negligence lawsuit accuses the show of misleading the guests on a segment about secret crushes and encouraging them to drink to lower their inhibitions. Scott Amedure, 32, appeared GLOBE PHOTO SHERMAN ZENT rrancls r. (Cadillac frank) balemme was arrested Friday In this two-story townhouse in West Palm Beach, Fla.

FRANCIS SALEMME Prosecutors will seek to deny him bail we're still looking for him." The FBI agents who transported Salemme from a federal detention center in Miami to Ft Lauderdale described him as gentlemanly. One said he was "real cooperative, in the sense of being pleasant, not cooperative in the sense of saying anything." Wearing the same navy pants and light blue shirt as prisoners seated beside him, the 61-year-old Salemme appeared almost carefree in court. He and Wolf, whom Fallon tried to pass off as his clerk, had a silent, but animated, exchange before his case was called. Salemme told authorities that Wolf was his wife, and at one point yesterday he gestured to her that his wedding band had been removed and then he shrugged. Wolf declined comment on the case or her marriage, saying "It's personal." On her ring finger was a large diamond and a gold band.

Wolf, who was with Salemme when he was arrested, has not been charged. FBI agents are still trying to piece together his life on the run, which ended with tips on his whereabouts, some from the Boston area. Because Florida is a popular spot for East Coast underworld figures, Miller said his office was in touch with agents in Boston about Salemme even before he was featured on an episode of "America's Most Wanted." "It's not unusual for us to arrest organized crime figures here from all of the Mafia families," he said. "They have businesses here, and they like to recreate here." Miller said the FBI is checking on whether Salemme used an alias or received assistance from other alleged mobsters living in the area. While federal authorities in Miami were talking about the help provided by tipsters to "America's Most Wanted," in Boston US Attorney Donald K.

Stem was describing the efforts as routine police work. "It's a lot of hard work, a lot of checking routine information," he said. "I would like to compliment the FBI for the work they've done on this case." Staff reporter John Milne provided information from Boston for this story. Family fortunes seen fading in N.E. Bulger seen having edge in evading the authorities BULGER Continued from Page 1 military history, a student of strategy and espionage.

That reading would help him survive the internecine gang wars of the 1960s, and to insulate himself from some law-enforcement 1 I ill agencies while ingratiating himself to others. His ability to play various agencies off against each other was a study in Cold War political strategy. Those who remember Salemme's 15 years as a guest of the Commonwealth remember someone who was constantly in the prison weightroom but not in the library. Bulger, like a good chessplayer, has an JAMES J. (WHITEY) BULGER Violent and well read ability to predict his opponent's next move that has served him well.

Law enforcement officials who worked on the investigation that led to the racketeering indictment of Salemme, Bulger during a taping in March to confess his crush on Jonathan Schmitz, who said he was heterosexual. Three days later, Schmitz allegedly killed Amedure. Schmitz, 24, is awaiting trial on murder charges. (AP) Pentagon queried on Gulf ailment WASHINGTON The Pentagon may have been unjustified in saying there was no evidence of a unique disorder in the illnesses that struck Gulf War veterans, medical specialists suggested yesterday. Clinton administration officials pledged to re-examine the whole issue, The report was released just before the first meeting of a White House advisory panel appointed by President Clinton to study the issue.

Tougher rules for welfare OK'd WASHINGTON The Clinton administration gave Maryland and Wisconsin permission yesterday to require parents who apply for welfare to look for work or other alternatives to public assistance as a condition of receiving a welfare check. In both states, parents who refuse risk the loss of their family's cash benefits. (AP) Drop tobacco ads, magazine urged WASHINGTON Five members of Congress asked Sports Illustrated yesterday to stop printing tobacco advertising, saying tobacco companies are "using your magazine to hook children" on their products. The five lawmakers cited five full- a citizen not just of Ireland, but of the entire European Union, meaning he could move through European airports by flashing the cover of a passport, instead of stopping at customs checks. "He can move through any European Union airport and no one will check his name or his photo," said one Irish diplomat Salemme's flight, in contrast appeared last-minute and not especially well-planned.

"It wasn't much of a plan for Salemme to flee to West Palm Beach," said one investigator. "All of the mobsters go to Florida. Do you know how many people walking around down there are from Boston? It was only a matter of time." I A former Boston police detective says, "For a guy that emulated Whitey, Frank didn't emulate him enough." Salemme's use of Castle Island as an outdoor office convinced some investigators he was taking counsel from Bulger, or at least Flemmi. Bulger not only took constitutionals on Castle Island, he conducted business there, out of the reach of electronic surveillance. "You can't even use a parabolic mike down the island," said one federal drug agent referring to a listening device.

"It's too crowded, too wide open, and you can't get close enough to anybody to pick anything up. Whitey knows that" Apparently so did Salemme, who was seen meeting there with his enforcers, including Richard Devlin, who was assassinated last year, and Rhode Island gangsters, including Bobby DeLuca, who was indicted with Salemme. When Gennaro (Jerry) Angiulo headed the Mafia in Boston, La Cosa Nostra was not averse to using Irish mobsters to do their dirty work. Still, there was always an underlying hostility toward Hibernian hoodlums. In 1981, an FBI bug inside Angiulo's North End headquarters captured this latent animosity.

Angiulo bragged that he and his brothers "buried 20 Irishmen to take this town over." Angiulo believed the Irish lacked intestinal fortitude. "That's why all Irishmen are cops," Angiulo opined. "Alone they're a piece of When they put on the uniform and they get a little power, they start destroying everything." and their associates say that Bulger appeared to have a healthy head start on Salemme. In early January when informants told the FBI that Bulger, Salemme and Stephen (The Rifleman) Flemmi, the main targets of the investigation, were preparing to flee the authorities went looking for them. The lengthy investigation was not a secret, and all three had dropped out of sight for extended periods, trying to guess when the indictment would drop.

Salemme was spotted Jan. 5, hours before federal agents and State Police decided to move in and arrest Flemmi after spotting him at a Financial District restaurant that his sons were renovating. Bulger, however, had been gone at least a week, investigators believe. Although Salemme eventually eluded authorities, investigators do not believe he had made the contingency plans that Bulger did in preparing for a lengthy stay on the run. "He's probably had a plan for years and he probably stashed everything he needs to do it," said one investigator.

"There would be damn few people that would know where he is." Investigators believe but so far have been unable to prove that Bulger put money in foreign bank accounts. He also put himself in a position to travel more freely than Salemme. In 1987, exercising his right as the descendant of Irish-born grandparents, Bulger obtained an Irish passport It gave him status as The regime that succeeded the Angiulos, meanwhile, had little to do with non-Mafiosi. But after they failed to kill Salemme in a 1989 ambush, and after their voices were intercepted by an FBI bug, Salemme was made boss. Salemme appeared to like Irish thugs, and strengthened contacts with the Winter Hill Gang, which Bulger and Flemmi ran.

Investigators have always believed Salemme would be an easier fugitive to track than Bulger. Since his release from prison in 1988, Salemme has seemed determined to recapture his youth. "He's trying to make up for the 15 years he lost" said a Salemme acquaintance. "He's got the body of a man 30 years younger and he dyes his hair." Salemme is considered more flamboyant than Bulger, who some say could blend into a farming community in the midwest. "He's a very self-contained individual," said one law enforcement source.

"He doesn't need a lot of social contact." Some mob investigators say there is a tendency to over-analyze the differences between Bulger and Salemme. One Boston Police detective who knows both men puts it simply. There's one big difference between Frank and Jimmy," he said, referring to Bulger by his other nickname. "Jimmy's still walking around. And when you're their age, that's the only thing that matters." By Shelley Murphy GLOBE STAFF While reputed New England Mafia Boss Francis (Cadillac Frank) Salemme has been hiding out in Florida for the past seven months, his brother has been quietly overseeing the family's gambling business, according to sources.

But, Salemme's brother, John (Action Jackson) Salemme, is not a "made" member of the Mafia and has not been able to hold the family together in his absence, sources said. And with the arrest Friday night of 61-year-old Salemme in a West Palm Beach condominium, authorities say the New England family's fortunes are unlikely to improve. Frank Salemme, a weak leader on the street, is considered even weaker now that he's in custody. "I can't imagine him able to retain control while in prison for an extended periodof time," said Dennis O'Callaghan, assistant special agent-in-charge of the FBI's Boston office. "Historically that just doesn't work out very well." While James J.

(Whitey) Bulger remains a fugitive, it's unclear whether anybody is representing his interests on the street. His right-hand man, Kevin Weeks, disappeared last month after an associate turned informant, sources said. James Ring, former supervisor of the FBI's organized crime squad, said it's difficult for any organized crime boss to be an active manager while on the run. "You don't know who to trust, you don't know if the person you talk to is going to support you or turn you in," Ring said. Under the rules of La Cosa Nostra, more commonly known as the Mafia, Ring said Salemme will remain boss until the family votes to replace him and his successor is approved by the New York-based Commission.

"Who really wants the job?" said Ring, likening the FBI and State Police to a steamroller that has flattened every boss and top lieutenant who has risen to power in the New England family since the 1984 death of Mob boss Raymond L.S. Patriarca. Both Ring and O'Callaghan noted that the New England family's operation is not as profitable as it once was, primarily because of its historic reliance on bookmaking, loan-sharking, and extortion and its failure to expand into legitimate businesses. "Historically, they've been less imaginative than the New York families" said O'Callaghan, adding that prosecutions have also thinned the New England family's ranks. But O'Callaghan does not see the Mafia fading too much money to be made, even in gambling and loansharking, to i abandon it.

Somebody is always going to be wanting to pick up the slack." page cigarette ads in the July 31 issue, including one urging readers to "collect all 10" Camel cigarette col Lamattina back to face charge from 1984 lectors' packs. (AP) (Reuters) Teen-ager held iii death of family By John Milne GLOBE STAFF McCLEARY, Wash. A teenager was held yesterday on charges he helped shoot his parents to death and drown his 5-year-old This case will be combined with federal charges filed in 1988 in Miami, connected with Lamattina's application for a passport he apparently used to flee to Italy, where some investigators believe he has been living for at least part of the time since 1984. In 1987, while he was on the run, investigators said that Lamattina was the only man who could complete the chronicle of the Boston mob. He came back yesterday and authorities would not discuss what led to his surrender.

brother. Brian Bassett, 16, is ac charges, prosecutors said. On the tapes played at the trials of Mafia boss Gennaro J. Angiulo and 20 other associates, Lamattina is the big talker, the mob historian, the man who knew Mafia leaders in New York and Philadelphia. He was charged with racketeering and conspiring to murder Harvey Cohen, formerly of Marblehead, the owner of a Boston-based trucking business who was to have been killed as a favor for "the family in New York," according to the indictment.

Cohen escaped the plotters. eused of killing his family with the Ralph Lamattina was the Mafia soldier who, for 11 years, got away. Lamattina, 73, nicknamed "Ralphie Chong," gave himself up yesterday to face an indictment handed down in 1984. At a hearing, US Magistrate Lawrence P. Cohen entered an innocent plea and set another hearing for Sept 18.

At that time, Lamattina is expected to plead guilty to racketeering, gambling and conspiracy help of a friend, Nicholaus Mc Donald, 17. Wendy and Michael Bas sett died of multiple gunshot wounds and their younger son, Austin, was droned in the bathtulat the family home, Coroner John Bebich said. (AP).