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Press, 15 April 1986, Page 10

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'Mob boss’ killed A bomb exploded under a car parked on a Brooklyn street, killing the reputed number two man in the Gambino crime family and critically injuring another suspected criminal, New York police said. The dead man was identified as Frank DeCicco, aged 58. In January, law-en-forcement authorities said DeCicco had been named underboss of the Gambino family by its reputed leader, John Gottio. —New York. New saint

Pope John Paul II has declared as a saint a Franciscan who worked among the poor and imprisoned in southern Italy in the early eighteenth century. About 20,000 people- from the southern Italian region of Apullia attended a ceremony making Francisco Antonio Fasani the latest saint of the Catholic Church.— Vatican City.

Anti-Govt call Three people were killed in continued Punjab violence as militants urged India’s 14 million Sikhs to rise against the Government—Amritsar. Collapse averted Prime Minister Shimon Peres announced that the Israeli Cabinet had appointed a new Finance Minister, resolving an eight-day crisis that brought the coalition Government to the brink of collapse.—Jerusalem. Seamen strike West German merchant sailors have begun the country’s first seamen’s strike in 90 years. Trade union officials said ships in Europe and Israel had been stranded by the action seeking better pay and shorter hours for the 10,000 seamen in the Public Service and Transport Union.—Hamburg.