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Last spring French left his wife and three children in Puerto Rico, returned to the U.S. temporarily for a weapons refresher-training course. At the end of the course he got leave, proceeded to put into action a plan that would wipe clean all his debts. French went to Washington, on April 5 took a late-evening stroll past the sand brick Russian Embassy on 16th Street. At the embassy he paused, tossed through the fence a letter addressed "To Whom It May Concern." For $27,500, said the letter, "I believe I can furnish you with valuable military information...
...sitting on laps or even riding the couplings between the decrepit cars. In these crowded human cattle cars, violence is quick to flare. Flashily dressed native gangsters, known as Tsotsis, wait to pounce upon the unwary worker, particularly on paydays, relieving him of his wallet and sometimes pushing him clean off the train if he resists. Even in the darkness of the stations and the roads near by, the Tsotsis wait to attack the worker as he races, blind with fear, from the station to his squalid home. Tsotsism is a problem older than the Boer government's apartheid...
...four candidates, Jimmy Hoffa got the biggest hand from his fellow Teamsters. But it was Chicago's Haggerty, a "clean" union man and a member of the Chicago board of education, who presented the most clearly detailed platform: greater autonomy for Joint Councils and locals, a bigger General Executive Board with greater powers, an end to ironfisted trusteeships (from which Jimmy Hoffa has gained much of his muscle...
...antidote to that tired feeling, Free-Lance writer Sylvia Wright now suggests (in the current issue of High Fidelity) a broad new approach to opera. Author Wright, founder of what may come to be known as the Vacuum School of Criticism, reports that every Saturday afternoon in winter she cleans her Manhattan apartment to the broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera, only to run into serious dusting dilemmas. "If I were not saddled with the Metropolitan, I would clean in the following order: straighten up the room, dust Venetian blinds, clean window sills, brush lampshades and upholstered furniture, dust surfaces...
...A.F.L.-C.I.O. Executive Council on Sept 24. That report will say that the biggest and most powerful U.S. labor union is indeed riddled with corruption. The Executive Council will probably approve the report and then, just before the Teamster convention in Miami Beach, warn the union to clean house or face expulsion from the united labor movement. To kick out nearly 10% of its members with one boot would be a painfully drastic move for the A.F.L.-C.I.O., but it may come to that if, despite the clean-up-or-else warning, Hoffa gets himself elected president. James Riddle Hoffa...