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9mm Petti itoie LATE STOCKS EDITION LATE STOCKS EDITION Vol. 212, No. 131, 1977, Globe Newspaper Co. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1977 Telephone 929-2000 46 Pages 20 Cents 0 THE DIGEST Then two rison life Mob figure placed in hospital project WWW If 2 Quincy officials get year sentences Two former Quincy officials convicted last month in US District Court of conspiracy and extortion in connection with a school contract today were sentenced by US District Court Judge Walter Jay Skinner to one year prison terms. Pending appeals, the sentences imposed against Vincent LoCicero, 44, former Quincy public works commissioner, and Herbert Reppucci, 62, former assistant director of Quincy's retired senior volunteer program, were suspended for 10 days.

Skinner ruled that if they file a notice of appeal the sentences would be suspended until the appeal was heard. They were convicted of taking $7000 from a Natick contractor whose company won a $980,000 contract for work on the Merrymount Elementary School in 1976. The company is the Rocheford Construction Co. setting, Byrne told Hall that O'Master was "one of the most vicious individuals ever prosecuted and convicted by this office." In 1973, O'Master and a friend were sentenced to 18-20 years at State Prison in Wal-pole for assault with intent to murder a Brighton lounge manager. The victim's neck was slashed from ear to ear and he was nearly disemboweled.

"As further evidence of O'Master's character," Byrne said in his recent letter to Hall, "the victim's dog was mutilated his head practically cut off. The dog bled to death in the parking lot outside the lounge." Byrne said there was "no question" that O'Master was a member of the "crime family" of Gennaro J. Angiulo, described by law By Richard J. Connolly Globe Staff Suffolk Dist. Atty.

Garrett H. Byrne has complained to the Massachusetts Correction Department that it has created "an ever increasing" prison population associated with high-level organized crime at the Medfield State Hospital where convicts work with, the mentally ill. In a letter to State Correction Comr. Frank A. Hall, Byrne criticized the agency's recent decision to transfer John O'Master of Needham, an alleged organized crime figure, to the hospital project.

Noting that O'Master had applied for a furlough and had been transferred to the hospital, where prisoners live in a dormitory enforcement officials as head of The Mob in Greater Boston. At Medfield, O'Master joined another alleged organized crime figure, Peter J. Limone, 43, of Medford who is serving a life sentence in the mob-ordered murder of Edward (Teddy) Deegan in Chelsea in 1965. In 1963, Limone was identified by authorities as the youngest member of the ruling council of The Mob in Boston. Byrne told Hall that the decision to send O'Master to Medfield was "ill-advised." "First, there is an ever increasing prison population at that facility which is associated with high-level organized crime activity.

MEDFIELD, Page 8 RONALD A. CASSESSO 1967 photo 9 I' 1 1. Call The Globe for election news Polling places in most Massachusetts cities and towns holding elections today will be open until 8 p.m. After 10:30 p.m. tonight, results will be available from the Globe's Election Desk.

Call 929-3000. Please do not call the regular Globe number. Slayer runs shop freely at Walpole 4 'V- 4 v. 'r i I 7 Si i. I t.

Arthur Morrison and two and one-half months growth. Beard in high school Why grow a beard? A Marshfield High School senior was given several reasons by fellow students. I "It just plain makes me look older," said one. I Another explained that he wanted to avoid cutting I himself with a razor. One young man called it a i "feeble attempt at sophistication." Page 3.

I Israel ret urns Lebanese fire 1 "You have been adjudged guilty of being an accessory before the fact to murder in the first degree by a jury of your peers and nothing remains for the court to do except to impose a penalty of death. "It is considered and ordered by the court that you, Ronald Anthony Cassesso, suffer the punishment of death by the passage of a current of electricity through your body. "Mr. Cassesso may be removed." The late Judge Felix Forte completed the sentencing in a Suffolk Superior courtroom on July 11, 1968, and Cassesso was taken to State Prison in Walpole to await execution until the US Supreme Court ruled the death penalty unconstitutional. His life was spared but he was to spend the rest of it in prison where he is no average inmate.

In relative freedom, Cassesso operates the hobby shop in the reception area of State Prison in Walpole. Fellow prisoners and correctional officers refer to him as the "maitre d' or the "outside man" at the prison. An organized crime figure who lived in Somerville, Cassesso was one of six men arrested in the 1965 gangland slaying of Edward (Teddy) Deegan in Chelsea. Four months before Judge Forte sentenced Cassesso to death in the Deegan case, Cassesso was convicted in US District Court in Boston for conspiring to murder William (Willie) Marfeo, a Providence gambler slain on orders from The Mob. Cassesso was sentenced to five years in prison and fined $10,000 in the Federal court case.

Convicted with him were Raymond L.S. Patriarca of Providence, the reputed leader of organized crime in New England, and Patriarca's confidante, Enrico Henry Tameleo of Cranston, R.I. Patriarca served his sentence in a Federal prison. Tamaleo is serving a life sentence at the Norfolk Correctional Institution in the Deegan case. The 75-year-old Tameleo is said to hold the respect of the Norfolk prison population and to be regarded as an elder statesman." Cassesso has been at Walpole since Judge Forte imposed the death penalty nine years ago.

A man of influence at State Prison, Cassesso manages the shop in which the woodworking and other handcraft of prisoners are sold. He has been granted furloughs. He can be contacted by telephone. Cassesso has an office in the lobby area, mingles with the public and prison personnel, accepting payment for the ceramics, doll houses, leathercraft and other items made by the men within the walls. INMATE, Page 10 STILL LIFE in the sculpture room of Museum of Fine Arts.

Uncovered work is by Diane Lee, Jamaica Plain. (Globe photo by Ulrike Welsch) Newton man arrested at Fernald gates ookie raiders nab 3, seek 8 Israeli gunners today pounded the Lebanese port of Tyre, two nearby Palestinian refugee camps and some Lebanese villages following a rocket attack from Lebanon on an Israeli resort town. Page 5. Realty trusts and 'straws' The dilapidated and vandalized three-decker at 734 Columbia Dorchester, provides a glimpse into the network of realty trusts and "straws" that landlord George V. Wattendorf and his associates have used to acquire, operate and dismantle real estate holdings.

Page 3. Asst. Boston counsel quits Assistant Boston Corporation Counsel Joseph F. Dalton, cited by The Globe's Spotlight Team early this year for devoting more of his time to his private practice than for the city, has resigned his $22,516 City Hall job. Page 13.

Las Vegas fights and sights Las Vegas is "court society slightly modernized." Globe staff writer Alan Richman was in a slightly demented city," last week during the for the Ken Norton-Jimmy Young fight and for the fight itself. He has made some intriguing observations concerning the place, the fight game and its future. Story. Page 25. DIGEST, Page 2 By Robert Carr and Richard Connolly Globe Staff State police under the direction of the district attorneys' offices of Middlesex and Norfolk counties initiated a series of raids this afternoon aimed at arresting the "main men" of a multimillion-dollar illegal sports betting operation.

Middlesex County Asst. Dist. Atty. John Kerry said the raids were the result of an investigation following the arrest several weeks ago of "major figures" involved in sports betting in Greater Boston. Today, he said, state troopers were seeking "the organizers and the main men" of the betting syndicate.

One of those arrested was Melvin Berger, 52, of Newton. Berger was taken into custody at the gate of Walter E. Fernald School in Waltham, where he was working under the terms of probation imposed after pleading guilty to Federal bookmaking charges last July. Kerry said that two other men were taken into custody in the early afternoon and that eight more persons were being sought. Norfolk County Dist.

Atty. William De-lahunt estimated the betting operatin grossed approximately $25 million annually. He said the gaming syndicate was effectively broken by the arrests. "I would say that we have apprehended the upper-level figures of this particular sports betting operation. "It was a substantial operation and catered to a professional clientele," Delahunt said.

Berger, allegedly a close associate of Abraham (Abie) Sarkis, 63, of ll 10 Brush' Hill Milton, a long-time bookie, was indicted with Sarkis and nine other men Jan. 31 in connection with operation of a highly profitable sports betting operation. On July 22, Berger and Sarkis, after pleading guilty to bookmaking charges, were ordered by Judge Joseph L. Tauro to work at the Walter E. Fernald School in Waltham 60 hours a month for three years or go to prison.

Each was fined $30,000, committed to the custody of the US probation department and placed on probation for three years. Sarkis and Berger began working at the school for the retarded about a week later on the 4 p.m. to midnight shift Mondays and Tuesdays. One of their first chores was to wash bedframes and spot clean Ward 5 which houses 21 multiply handicapped persons in wheelchairs. One of those allegedly involved with Berger and Sarkis was Illario Antonio Zannino, 56, of Swampscott, once described in testimony before US senators in Washington as a "favorite" of Raymond L.

S. Patriarca, reputed head of organized crime in New England. RAID, Page 13 Tips for Tonight Boston Symphony, Joseph Silverstein conducting, Symphony Hall Boston, at 8:30. Dewey Redman Quartet, Jazz Workshop. 733 Boylston Boston, at 9 and 11.

TV Tip for Tonight "The Magnificent Seven," Ch. 56 at 8. The Weather Tonight, rain or drizzle. 48 to 52. Tomorrow, chance of light rain, 55.

Northeast winds. Full report. Page 20. US found lax in enforcing sex bias laws view of every discrimination complaint filed with OCR field offices from 1972 to October, 1976. a involving much more than an exchange of letters with school officials.

The government has yet to cut funds off from a single school district where it has issued a finding of sex discrimination. Top bureaucrats continue to delay making basic policy decisions on issues they think might stir up controversy. Unresolved policy issues range from basic employment problems to more esoteric ones like deciding if rules prohibiting boys from wearing their hair long consititute sex discrimination. PEER is part of the National Organization for Women's LerA Defense and Educa date of the government's efforts to deal with sex discrimination, also asserted: The Ford Administration fearful of political fallout declared a moratorium on enforcing sensitive sex discrimination cases 2ui months before the 1976 election, virtually halting all enforcement activities until months after the Republicans left office. OCR.

the study said, "didn't even answer its mail." More than a third of the complaints filed under Title IX of the 1972 education act take three years or more to resolve. "Intervention, when it came, tended to be too late to help the people who asked for it," the report said. Most investigations arecu-ry, seldom By Bill Peterson Washington Post WASHINGTON The government has been "lackadaisical" in its enforcement of sex discrimination laws in the nation's schools and has taken up to three years to investigate some complaints of discrimination, a women's rights group charged yesterday In a four-year ptriotl from 1972 to 1976. the US Ofiire for Civil Rights (OCR) re-solvf-d onlv of the 671 discrimination icmplaints it received and did "almost nothing" i-lse to enforce the law, an 18-month study by the Project of Equal Education Rights (PEER) said. Th-iudy.

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