WORLD NEWSGRAMS by James O. Henry Chairman, History Department, Biola College U.S. Fight on Organized Crime Brings Wide Rise in Convictions The Justice Department’s fight against organized crime is beginning to show substantial results in terms of actual cases. Figures released by the White House in January dis closed a sharp rise in the number of persons indicted and convicted in the special organized crime campaign. Its object has been the pooling of information on key suspects by vari ous Federal agencies, which often had been at odds or ignorant of each other’s material before. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, which had not been deeply involved in the crime problem, has become much more so. Working with it have been, among others, two Treasury agen cies — the Bureau of Narcotics and the Internal Revenue Service. In 1963 the Justice Department ob tained 288 convictions of racketeers and others in the organized crime category. That compares with 45 in 1960, the last year before the co ordinated drive. Find Renews Debate on Dead Sea Scrolls An archaeological discovery has opened the debate about the identity of the sect which compiled the Dead Sea Scrolls. It associates the sect with the Jewish zealots who resisted the Roman conquerors of Palestine in the first century. The new evi dence is a scroll similar to those found by an Arab shepherd in 1947 at Qumran near the Dead Sea. It was discovered at Massada in north east Israel. Prof. Yigael Yadin, a noted Israeli archaeologist, is leading an expedition there to unearth the fortress which was the last to hold out against the Romans. It fell after 900 Jews committed mass suicide to avoid surrendering to the enemy. The scroll deals with Jewish Sab batical sacrifices and is based on the 364-day calendar kept by the Qum ran sect. It is a solar calendar, based on the earth’s course in relation to the sun, whereas the Orthodox Jew ish calendar is lunar, based on revo lutions of the moon. Prof. Cecil Roth, a Briton who is an authority on Jew ish history, hailed the discovery as a confirmation of his view that the Dead Sea Scrolls represent the litera ture of the zealots.
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