Word: cannoneering
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...prison hospital in Springfield, Mo., Roy L. Williams agreed to resign from the presidency of the 1.9 million-member Teamsters Union in exchange for remaining free on bail while he appeals his case. He was convicted in December for conspiring with four other defendants to bribe Senator Howard W. Cannon of Nevada...
Teamsters President Roy L. Williams, suffering from emphysema, waited attentively last week in Chicago's U.S. District Court to be sentenced for his part in a bungled conspiracy to bribe then Senator Howard W. Cannon of Nevada. If anyone was moved by his illness, it was not U.S. District Judge Prentice H. Marshall, who slapped Williams, 68, with a provisional maximum sentence: 55 years in prison and a fine...
Williams and four co-defendants were found guilty on Dec. 15 of conspiring to bribe Cannon by offering him choice Teamsters-owned property in Las Vegas at a $200,000 discount in return for the Senator's help in scuttling a trucking-deregulation bill. Williams will undergo medical tests at a federal prison in Springfield, Mo., that could lighten his sentence. He is the third president of the 1.9 million-member union to receive a prison sentence in a criminal case in the past 25 years...
...some 30 investors with a special sense of romance-and risk-the payoff from an unusual Florida operation was the kind they could touch, even fondle: silver ingots the size of paving blocks, gold chains, gold bars, fistfuls of gold and silver coins, a coral-encrusted anchor, a bronze cannon, an emerald ring-all lost at sea 361 years...
...Cannon...