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...typically '70s horn-driven musical soundtrack and a supporting turn by the ever-vivacious Tura Satana (star of Russ Meyer's "Faster! Pussycat! Kill! Kill!"). The plot finds a group of six, not three, female agents invading the island stronghold of ex-government agent Eamon O'Reilly (swarthy Michael Ansara, best known for working on ex-wife Barbara Eden's "I Dream of Jeannie"). O'Reilly intends to use bubonic plague to conquer the world - unless he can be stopped by our bodysuit-clad, machine-gun-totin' heroines (who are, by the way, quite nicely coiffed as well...
...federal monitor Kenneth Conboy said the Teamsters boss was a party to illegal schemes to funnel nearly $900,000 of union funds to the 1996 campaign in which he narrowly defeated challenger James P. Hoffa. The explosive ruling followed guilty pleas last September by three Carey aides, including Michael Ansara, a co-founder of the radical Students for a Democratic Society at Harvard in the 1960s, who admitted to helping shift $95,000 of union dues into Carey's coffers. Carey denies knowing about the illegal acts and vows to fight the disqualification ruling...
...cast of characters who had an interest in keeping his presidency alive, including two of America's most powerful labor leaders, AFL-CIO president John Sweeney and secretary-treasurer Richard Trumka. So far, three men connected to Carey--campaign manager Jere Nash, fund raiser Martin Davis and consultant Michael Ansara--have pleaded guilty to conspiracy. The three have contradicted Carey's assertion that he had no knowledge of the scheme. Carey says he is the victim of their misdeeds. According to the U.S. attorney's charge and sources familiar with the investigation, Carey's men approached several political groups, including...
Barbara Arnold, whose husband Michael Ansara operates the Share Group, a telemarketing firm that has worked for the Teamsters since 1991, gave the Carey campaign $45,000 on Oct. 31, 1996. Nine days earlier, the Teamsters had paid the Share Group $48,587. Arnold donated $50,000 more on Nov. 26, just 11 days after the union had made another $48,587 payment to the company...
...operating phone banks for the Teamsters, had overbilled the union more than $26,000 but was allowed to keep the money. Last week the fbi attempted to question the couple, but their attorney, William Codinha, said they were "out of town." He contends that Arnold made the contributions without Ansara's knowledge because she had recently inherited money--and that the proximity of the contributions to the Teamster payments is mere "serendipity...