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Presser's immediate predecessor as Teamsters leader, Roy L. Williams, has not been as successful in eluding prosecution. Williams, who served as president of the union from 1981 to 1983, was convicted three years ago of attempting to bribe former Nevada Senator Howard Cannon in 1979 in return for the politician's help in opposing a trucking deregulation bill. Washington sources say that Presser was the Teamsters informant who first tipped the FBI to Williams' bribe offer. Last week Williams, 70, had his original prison sentence of 55 years reduced to ten years. He had pleaded for leniency because...
...Women and children and settlers are just cannon fodder for lawyers and bankers," McCrae said. "They're part of the scheme. After the Indians wipe out enough of them you get your public outcry, and we go chouse the Indians out of the way. If they keep coming back then the Army takes over and chouses them worse. Finally the Army will manage to whip 'em down to where they can be squeezed onto some reservation, so the lawyers and bankers can come in and get civilization started. Every bank in Texas ought to pay us a commission...
...giant bazaar, full of hagglers and houris, that draws 35,000 visitors each May. Israeli-born Producers Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, now based in Los Angeles, set up shop at the posh Carlton Hotel, and by the end of the 13-day festival their company, the Cannon Group, had cut $65 million worth of movie deals. Or was it $90 million? When money talks in this town, the details sometimes get lost in translation...
...jaunty minimalism of the twelfth is getting good notices. "The critical success is great," says Norris, "but the main thing is still the public. The critics can rave, but if the people don't come to see your movie, what good is it?" Christopher Pearce, head of production for Cannon Films, the company that last year hired Norris to make six movies, is pleased by the lack of artistic ambition. "That is a great advantage," Pearce says, "because he's not out there wanting to do Shakespeare." Rather than Richard II, the next Norris movie will be Invasion U.S.A...
...descent. In Los Angeles, ever the scholar at the University of Southern California, he went on The Gong Show, a sort of television Ship of Fools, and won second place with a trained plant act. (He put a fern through a hoop, shot a plant out of a cannon, sawed a plant in half. An old lady from Santa Monica beat him with a Sophie Tucker impersonation...