Other than some low-level former members, the new party had no formal connection with the now defunct NNP.

They have been poorly aimed - not the work of top Al Qaeda operatives but apparently of low-level members or sympathizers.

The Chinese gangs, he said, are moving into the trade partly because of their need for low-level members to help run the heroin business.

The businesses cooperated in the numbers operation, officials said, and 17 low-level members of the ring were also indicted.

They accused Mr. Ulmer of being a low-level member of the operation.

Stand-ins, usually low-level members of one of the local mafia gangs, forced their way into the line, glaring at anyone who tried to challenge them.

Historians believe many low-level members were recruited in the belief that it was an auto-defense organization, intended to fight against a Communist takeover.

Soldier or Soldato, a low-level member of an organized crime "family"

A law enforcement official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said yesterday that investigators believed the men were low-level members of the Gambino crime family.

The police said they believed Mr. Rubino was a low-level member of an organized crime family.