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...Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations last week added to the Teamster boss's woes; it released a report charging that Williams has ties to organized crime and is under the "complete domination" of Kansas City reputed Mob Boss Nick Civella. The report called the new Teamster chief "an organized crime mole operating at senior levels of the Teamsters Union." It also cited evidence that Williams had been involved in a scheme to receive cash skimmed from Las Vegas casinos. The subcommittee asked the Labor Department to investigate Williams' suitability for the Teamster's job and to seek...
DIED. Harry Vaughan, 87, retired Army major general who as military aide and loyal adviser to President Harry Truman from 1945 to 1953 embroiled his boss in a number of embarrassing controversies, among them receiving seven deep freezers from lobbyists in 1945 and three years later for accepting a medal from Argentina's Juan Perón; of a heart attack; at Fort Belvoir...
...grief was perhaps greatest in Poland. John Paul has been an inspirational force to his overwhelmingly Catholic fellow countrymen, who are struggling to liberalize their nation's Communist system without plunging it into anarchy. Acutely aware of the Pope's influence, Party Boss Stanislaw Kania, President Henryk Jablonski and Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski joined in a telegram wishing him a speedy recovery "so indispensable to fulfilling your mission in the service of the humanistic ideals of peace and the welfare...
With those defiant words, issued at his union's 1976 convention in Las Vegas, Teamster Boss Frank E. Fitzsimmons underscored the brass-knuckles philosophy of union management that ruled supreme during his decade-long tenure as president of the U.S.'s largest trade union. Fitzsimmons' death last week in La Jolla, Calif, of lung cancer at age 73 makes room at the top of the 78-year-old International Brotherhood of Teamsters; the succession is not clear. But there seems little prospect that the union will change very much from what it was under the bluff...
Before entering prison, however, Hoffa persuaded delegates to the union's 1966 convention to elect Fitzsimmons to the newly created post of general vice president, to watch over day-to-day Teamster affairs in the boss's absence. Fitzsimmons had worked for Hoffa in various union posts since 1934 and was considered little more than...