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...union has been so often investigated and exposed as the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America. As far back as the 1950s, it was dissected by the Senate McClellan committee-which later branded it a "hoodlum empire"-and thrown out of the AFL-CIO as a pariah unfit to live in the house of labor. Since then, it has been the target of endless grand-jury investigations and many exposes of Teamster-Mafia deals, and some of its officers have been jailed; James R. Hoffa ran the union from a cell in Lewisburg federal penitentiary between...
...million hungry refugees from the Ganges commandeer 100 rusty ships-heavily freighted with symbolism and exiles-and set sail for the promised land of Europe. The white Christian world is a flaccid parody of its once dominant self, sapped by guilt, ecumenical dilutions of religion and "all that brotherhood crap." When it becomes clear that the passive invaders will run aground off the Côte d'Azur, the French are so "mucked up with brotherly love" that they turn their country over with scarcely a whimper...
...embracing a young black inmate, he said, "We're gonna win, brother," and they were two human beings solidly together and Wicker was "free at last, free at last, thank God." But when he turned to leave he saw police and guns staring from the prison walls, and his brotherhood was buried in an avalanche of fear...
...which first organized Gallo workers and represented them until 1973--has claimed the International Brotherhood of Teamsters signed an illegal contract with Gallo...
...Hunter and hunted end up holding each other at bay in an elevator at Saks Fifth Avenue that has stopped between floors. While the cops surround the place, the good guy and the bad guy sweat it out, afraid equally of dying and of approaching the destiny of metaphorical brotherhood between races that the scenarists have laid out for them...