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...always Jackie Presser's ambition to be president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, even though he had watched several bosses stumble trying to keep both the Government and the gangsters at bay. Two Teamsters' presidents, Dave Beck and Jimmy Hoffa, went to prison on federal charges of corruption. After his release, Hoffa vanished, presumably rubbed out by the Mob. A third, Roy Williams, resigned the week before last in exchange for remaining free on bail while he appeals his bribery-conspiracy conviction. "That chair isn't a throne," Presser once remarked. "It's an electric...
...only by their love of a common career. As the audition progresses, and they are forced one by one by the demanding director Zach (Eivind Harum) to reveal their anxieties and fantasies, the actors draw closer. By the time the final selections are made, they have formed a supportive brotherhood...
...immediate attention has been drawn to the industry's problems. But that is a very minor plus. The image of the industry has been damaged because of the irresponsible actions of a very small body." Indeed, the protest may have set back the lobbying efforts of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the American Trucking Associations and other trucking organizations that opposed the strike. "This shutdown has only given truckers a black eye with the public," fumed Robert Jasmon, executive vice president of the Midwest Truckers Association, another independent group. "The real representatives of our industry must talk sense...
When Roy L. Williams, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, was convicted last week in Chicago's U.S. District Court of conspiring to bribe Senator Howard W. Cannon of Nevada, he was not exactly breaking with Teamster tradition. In 1957 the union's president, David Beck, was found guilty of embezzlement, larceny and income tax evasion. Beck's successor, Jimmy Hoffa, got 13 years in 1964 for jury tampering, fraud and conspiracy. Williams, 67, had thrice before escaped federal conviction. Said Chief Government Prosecutor Douglas R. Roller after the verdict, "The message of the jury...
...Reagan Administration's low-key campaign for change has produced disappointingly few results. U.S. proposals for reorganization of the armed forces have come to naught: the idea has been resisted by the tightly knit brotherhood of the Salvadoran armed forces, which exists almost as a society apart from the rest of the country's citizens. Human rights atrocities continue. According to Ambassador Hinton, at least 68 people were killed in the first two weeks of October. U.S. efforts have been further set back by the disappearance of 21 leftists and labor leaders, several of whom attended the meeting...