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...Committee's charges were based largely on activities of Beck as president and Frank Brewster, Seattle, and Sidney Brennan, Minneapolis, as vicepresidents...
...Central States: "I don't think anybody won a victory." If Dave Beck had been the only top Teamster in trouble, the others might have dumped him overboard. But with Central Conference Chairman Hoffa facing federal charges of conspiracy and bribery and with Western Conference Chairman Frank Brewster thickly splashed with scandal, the Teamsters decided to put up a united front-even if it was only a front...
...last fortnight, spotting a couple of jeeps crossing Tangeorkheh, the bandits opened fire, knowing that Iranian cops move by jeep. Instead this was a party of five, including two American members of a technical aid mission to Iran, 37-year-old Kevin Carroll of Issaquah, Wash, and Brewster Wilson, 35, of Portland, Ore. With Carroll's pretty young wife Anita in their party, they had started their trip across the desert without taking the routine precaution of telling the local gendarmery. Armed with a shotgun and a revolver, the ambushed Americans fought off the bandits, seeking shelter behind...
While the P-I in the past month, for the first time, has run editorials and syndicated columns criticizing the Teamsters, it has not yet run a line condemning Beck or Brewster; nor has it carried one staff-written story on the hearings. The Times, too, has made only the mildest editorial references to Beck, but it has been busy unearthing local skulduggery by the Teamsters, and has assigned a staff reporter to cover the Washington hearings...
...income-tax troubles, probably would even have penetrated to the Teamster chieftain's big-time peccadilloes. But Turner and Lambert gave McClellan's men a slam-bang first act that stirred immediate nationwide support for the inquiry and propelled the investigation straight to Western Conference Boss Frank Brewster, key figure in the Portland scandal. From there it was a short hop into Dave Beck's plush Seattle parlor...