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...hastily called press conference, Hussein dropped all pretense of Arab brotherhood, declared flatly: "There is no doubt Egypt and Syria are just instruments of international Communism." Ten months ago Syria, Egypt and Saudi Arabia agreed to pay Jordan $35 million a year to replace the subsidy once supplied by Britain, but only Saudi Arabia has fulfilled its promise. "The agreement is not worth the paper it is written on," said Hussein. Next day he took off for the desert to celebrate his 22nd birthday with a picnic and duck shoot...
...rainy afternoon skies hovered in leaden gloom above the modernistic A.F.L.-C.I.O. headquarters building on Washington's 16th Street. James Riddle Hoffa, president-elect of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, scissored briskly up to the front entrance. A photographer asked him for just "one cheerful smile." Snapped Jimmy Hoffa cheerlessly: "Don't worry, kid. There'll be lots of them. Nothing has happened...
...Miami Beach Auditorium one day last week, a band bugled out a rousing version of When the Saints Go Marching In, and in marched nearly 2,000 delegates to the quinquennial convention of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, as unsaintly a crew as U.S. labor has to offer. They were there to elect-or rather, ratify -a president. The man they wanted was a man they loved: James Riddle Hoffa, 44, pal of gangsters, target of national scorn and innumerable investigations, soon to appear in New York to defend himself on charges of wiretapping and perjury...
Grinning like a bridegroom at his third wedding, Detroit's James Riddle Hoffa waited in Miami last week at the threshold of his highest ambition-presidency of the giant, 1,400,000-member International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Yet few prospective bridegrooms-and indeed few union bosses-had ever been the target of so many brickbats, bombshells and booby traps calculated to keep him from the church on time. Items...
...York, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. executive council found that the International Brotherhood of Teamsters was "dominated, controlled, or substantially influenced in the conduct of its affairs by corrupt influences," gave the Teamsters 30 days to root out the influences or be suspended, i.e., if Hoffa is elected president, the Teamsters' suspension seems certain...