Word: cannon
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...union did so in a rousing voice vote of acclamation even though Williams, who has beaten prison despite three federal indictments, now faces a fourth. He is accused of attempting to bribe Nevada Senator Howard Cannon in 1979 to delay deregulation of the trucking industry...
...records falsification, but was never convicted. In 1977 Williams was forced under Government pressure to resign as a trustee of the union's Central States Pension Fund, now worth $2.8 billion. Last week he was indicted again, this time on charges of trying to bribe Senator Howard Cannon of Nevada, ranking Democrat on the Commerce Committee...
...latest charges stem from "Operation Pendorf," an FBI investigation into labor racketeering. According to the indictment handed down by a Chicago federal grand jury, Williams, Chicago Insurance Broker Allen Dorfman and three others told Cannon that if he would delay consideration of a bill designed to deregulate trucking rates and routes, he would be allowed to buy some valuable Nevada property owned by the Teamsters pension fund. The deal never came off. Cannon voted for a weakened version of the trucking deregulation bill, which passed. The Justice Department has told the Senator that he will not be indicted...
...statements put out by various Administration spokesmen on such issues as a trade embargo if the Soviets invade Poland or potential U.S. construction of the neutron bomb. He is pushing hard for consistency. One major concern at the NATO meeting was what Weinberger - regarded by Europeans as a loose cannon - would do and say at a gathering this week of the Atlantic Alliance's defense ministers. Said one aide: "Haig wants Weinberger to sing from the same sheet music...
...with Is rael. We hate war and hate bloodshed, and we want to give peace to our people. As far as the Syrians are concerned, they are a very warlike nation. They proved to Lebanon that they are very cruel. They bombarded civilians in the thousands with heavy cannon, tanks and missiles. They mas sacred them, like the Nazis did to the civilians in Europe...