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...defendants are all members of an anti-black, anti-Semitic, anti- Government hate group known variously as the Order, the Silent Brotherhood, the White American Revolutionary Army and the Aryan Resistance Movement. A 93- page indictment charges 23 members with violating the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, a statute the Government has hitherto used against organized crime and terrorists. Ten of the accused had pleaded guilty, and an eleventh changed his plea to guilty last week; at . least eight of these have drawn 20-year prison terms. One of the 23 has never been caught, and another...
...Hutton brokerage company to plead guilty to a massive check- kiting scheme, but declined to seek indictments of any of the firm's officers, although Hutton was fined $2 million. Meese has also had to defend the Justice Department's protection of Jackie Presser, the president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and the only major union boss who supported Ronald Reagan's 1980 and 1984 presidential bids. In July the Justice Department decided not to prosecute Presser on charges of paying $274,000 to nonworking "ghost employees" at a Teamsters local in Cleveland. Presser's uncle Allen Friedman went...
...ghost employee" of Teamsters Union Local 507 in Cleveland, and nursing a powerful grievance. He was only "the fall guy," Friedman protested. The real culprit, he said, was Local 507's secretary-treasurer, Jackie Presser, who happens to be Friedman's nephew as well as president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the nation's largest labor union, with 2 million members...
Nadkarni traces his compulsive enthusiasm to his family, where he says he learned the "spirit of brotherhood" under the influence of Ghandian principles his father brought from India...
...forgive Mehmet Ali Agca, the man who shot him. The bullet hole in his abdomen gave him the authority to do that. So, in a sacramental way, did his ordination as a priest. Ronald Reagan can forgive John Hinckley (the Pope and the President both being members of the brotherhood of the shot). But Ronald Reagan cannot forgive Agca for shooting the Pope. Nor can he forgive SS men for what they did in Europe while Reagan was making Army training films in Hollywood. Wrote the poet John Dryden: "Forgiveness to the injured doth belong...