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977 (Mouns Clipping in Spoce Below) y.Loses Third! Bie. ans Undicaie page, namre of newspaper, city and state. Yoset Burg By RON LaBRECQUE Burg five years ago headed an intensive i- Herald Stafl Writer vestigation ihat led to Lansky's deportation jLate Thursday afternoon. Meyer. Lansky trom Israel. where he had lived nore than'a I=C set in his comfortablc Miami Beach apar:- year with his wife. Thelma. ment overlooking ine ocean and covered h's In his letter to Begin, Lansky said he want- disappointr.ent with a jole. ed to live out his life in lsrael. "Maybe I'm an excommunicated Jew." he Burg again said no. MIAMI HERALD said, laughing. Lansky wasn't surprised. "I know his posi- The premier urderworld financier had just tion," Lansky said. He said he didn't mind Jearncd that, for the third time, the Israeli that Begin didn't personally make a decision. government had reluscd him entry under "I don't care who (the letter) was given to." MIAM, FLA. rules that normaily welcome almost all Jews TBE AGING Lansky, who acts like a kind- automatically. ly grandfather in public, always has dis. CC TOBUREU counted lsw enforcement reporis about his CALLED THE Law of Return, it smooths supposed prominence in organized crime. the way lor Jewish innigrants to the tiny "I don't care what people think about me. Zjonist state. But not Lansky. declared a day- just the people who have deait with me,He ger to public safety by the Israeli Supreme sald. Caurt. Thcy can't indict me unless they irame I]'m not a threat to Jews or society," Lan- me, lil.e they did on that tax case," he saigl, sky said. "I'm a Jew, and I want ta go to1s referring to his 1972 federal indictment fof rael just as any other Jew would.". income tax evasion. A Miami jury in 1973 1L.ast Scptember, Israeli authorities refuse1 <hose not to believe Mafia member-turned Lansky per.nission even to yisit ior a 10-da/ Informant Vincent (Big Vinnie) Teresa ani. vication. THe is 75 now, and for several years. ac- acguitted Lansky. LAW ENFORCEMENT authorities csti- cording to his doctors. has been in extremely mate that Lansky who operated a gam- poor health. He has prepared for death by bling syndicate in Florida 25 years ago. was Date: 1-5--78 purchssing iwo gravesites in the centuries- old Mouni of Olives Cenctery in Jerusalem. involved in pre-Castro Havana casino sight- Edition: FINAL When Israel rejected him last year, he told life and allegedly has had hidden conncctions his rabbi, "I'll be there anyway," in a reier- with Las Vegas and European casinos cnce to the gravesites. made many millions of dollars and rosc to "} DiD it on my own." I.ansky said Thurs. mob prominence througl iliegal gam5ling. Title: IEYER LANSKY "I hope you stop gambling, he said, iace. day aboui his decision to try again two tiously, referring io the current debate over wecks ago. Without he!p from the lawyers legalization of casino gansbiing in Ilorida. who have protected hins or the rabbi who S.l! inq ay Jo anss! ue yons ayeur no. Characler: AR sometimes has guided him. Lansky said. lic semething just like the noses on our laces. ?t wrote a lettcr to Israeli Prime Minisier Me3- H !! dogs jou Ayal., p!es oy. . fenr o3 y uo. 10 asem Begin. 92--102** 1h.en? Why run teuing ocds in the newsp- IBegin quickly turned the letter over to i;n Classificution: pur? why don't you stop making cards ?" HIANI, Ol Lansky foe in Isracl, Interior Minister. Submitting Office: