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Show Page 42-T- HERALD, Provo. Utah. Wednesday. December HE 13. 1972 San Francisco's Mayor Says He's Proud of His Italian Descent By MURRAY SAN' FRANCISCO-iNE- A) It is very chic now, says Joe Alioto, to be Italian. "It's very chiv to be Sicilian, too." Joe Alioto's face has the gleam of a fresh, natural d olive. "U implies flattery," he says, "that the movies' gross second only to the 'Sound of Music' involves the fascination the American public has with things Italian." Joe Alioto beams. Put a little cotton stuffing in his mouth; put vowels on the end of his woids. He could almost play The Godfather, too, although the idea wou'cl be anathema to him. "If you took the Italian chapters out of that great big book of culture called Western Civilization," he proclaims, "you'd h a v e a damn thin volume." .fn' . all-tim- e Joseph Lawrence Alioto is proud. And emotional. And sensitive. He's Italian, of course, by descent, and Sicilian. His father came over on the boat in 1897. His maternal grandparents were native Sicilians. One of his sons is married to a Sicilian It still shocked him when he was linked by inference to the Mafia, in an article by the defunct Look Magazine in 1969. He sued for libel. (The $12.5 million suit has gone through two mistrials, the second of which ended just recently.) He also came under civil and criminal prosecution in the state of Washington for although this had nothing to do with his being Italian. Joe Alioto could have been ruined. Don't forget, here was a man who had placed Hubert Humphrey in nomination for president at the 1968 Democratic convention. Joe Alioto himself was prominently mentioned as a possibility, governor of California or U.S. senator either seemed an eventual certainty. Alioto still doesn't rule out the possibility. After all, while still under indictment, with the Washington state case being tried in the middle of his campaign, he was mayor of San Francisco last y e a r by twice the margin he won in ' .'' a ii in in JV &mk. iniimil i .Maur Joseph Alioto 1 the Hollywood physician known as "Doctor of the Stars." "We simplv have not got the facts" that heart surgery is always necessary, he said for more recalled Corday search and a "good, hard, cold look" at all aspects of heart surgery. Corday, speaking at a weekend symposium of the American College of Cardiology, said heart surgery today is similar to breast removal for cancer 70 years ago when it was considered vital. Contemporary surgeons, however, are begin-into believe breast removal is extreme and prefer to use radiation treatment, he said. Corday, of the Cedars of g . young doctors. among Later, Dr. Osier L. Peterson, professor of preventive medicine at Harvard Medical School, said he was skeptical about the effectiveness of hospital coronary care units. A study of the units in a number of New England he said, indicated hospitals, they were "well nigh wort-1 ?ve VM&s To It tei.iecj I I 1 .MMltl have been beating bums at their own game, right in the court room, so people are incensed at the persecution aspect. I make no bones about the fact that we're taking a very close look at the 1974 guber natorial race." Meanwhi'e, there's the con tinuing job of being the may or of one of the nation's glamorous cities. "The challenge of the city," he notes, "is exciting in places like New York, Chicago, New Or leans, Boston, at one time Philadelphia." And, of course, San b rancisco. He proudly claims to have built 27 miniparks, promoted the spending of $25 million to "beautify one boulevard," Market Street. "We have the same problems of urban crisis everybody has," he concedes, "but our crime rate is reduced and real estate taxes have come down two years in a row. What we lack in this town is the $25,000 home for young people." Put a cocktail reception together, or a luncheon, or a parade, and Mayor Joseph Alioto is there. In full, lone flourish. "Other mayors around with bodyguards," he says. "One of them has nine. We have a distinguished governor when he comes to San Francisco, he ha? 14 bodyguards with him. I don't know where the hell he thinks he's going." He emphasizes his conclusion: "There isn't any Mafia in this town, and every knowledgeable person knows ft yo-y- o radio - a sound gift for the younger set radio is equipped with a Ferrite rod antenna, automatic volume The yo yo styled if j ) control, private earphone jack and batteries. It's a perfect Christmas gift, so fun and different. 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He claims it was occurrence. His a friend, Gene McAteer, who had declared he was running for mayor, dropped dead on HOW THE g Heart Surgery Is Often Performed Unnecessarily 1967. freak trust-bustin- x Heart NEW YORK (LTD surgery, like breast removal, is often performed unnecessarily, especially by younger surgeons. Dr. Eliot Corday said Saturday.. "I can't see it," said Corday, wood-panele- T g political animal. There's nothing in my background to even suggest it." lie was a nationally prominent lawyer, a businessman and a banker most of his adult life. Also a in the community who played the violin for relaxation. "The bad thing in politics." he muses, "is you have to take incredible abuse by . well, I people who are can't comment on the Look thing. "And the dirty work. John Mitchell had an obsession with bugging peoples' phones. Maybe he's so henpecked at home that he had to work out his aggressions with whatever he was doing at the office, which happened to be control of the most he ina handball court. cumbent mayor was forbidden by his doctor to run again. "A man naned Harold Dobbs," says Alioto, "was left. In my law practice I found out something about Harold Dobbs and made a determination he was not going to be the mayor of San Francisco. I wouldn't mind Harold Dobbs being the mayor of H'hittier." Fifty-sidays later, Joseph Alioto was the mayor of San Francisco, "It's a very dangerous business to be the mayor of a large city," he says, "if you're interested in going on in politics. The mortality rates are pretty high. Rut I don't regard myself as a , d i wen.', "I-A- awesome power, the criminal justice process. "Nobody had a right to make the kind of attacks that have been made on me, that I'm a member of the Mafia And to contrive such a criminal charge that a federal judge looks at two prosecutors and asks, 'Why did you even bring this case?' And throws it out. "I don't mention this very much because to the average person, who doesn't follow thing? closely, if you say. They're trying to get me you sound paranoid. Then you have those epi sodes of FBI people throw ing bombs at the homes of private citizens. I don t give a damn if the man's name is Honanno. An FBI man throws the bomb and you have two witnesses and he takes the 5th Amendment when you ask him about it They ought to indict the bum. not just dismiss him. "So this is a peculiar De partment of Justice we have these days. I was talking this way two years ago and they said I was crazy. Does the mayor feel the Mafia accusation against him and the trials killed any aspirations he may have had for higher OLDP RMAN by Bill Howrillc SGT. 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