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WILL THE TEAMSTERS EVER GO straight? Not with the attitude problem they've got. America's largest and most corrupt labor union remains in love with its sordid past, which is making it nearly impossible for it to forge an honest future. The attitude is reflected vividly in Hoffa, the new $40 million movie starring Jack Nicholson. The film tends to romanticize the life of the union's most infamous leader, Jimmy Hoffa, portraying him as a folk hero, a "friend of labor" who may have done deals with the Mob but only to help his Teamsters brothers and never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Hoffa Haunts the Teamsters | 12/21/1992 | See Source »

...settling the suit, Teamsters leaders agreed to a consent decree under which Frederick Lacey, the former federal judge who last week completed the Iraqgate probe, was assigned as an overseer to remove corrupt Teamsters officials and lead the way to free elections. But William McCarthy, who was president until last year, and his cronies spent $10.5 million of the union's money to litigate and obstruct the settlement at every step...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Hoffa Haunts the Teamsters | 12/21/1992 | See Source »

...beneficial consequence of such actions would be the channeling of funds away from corrupt leaders of puppet Bantustan governments (like Bophuthatswana, where Sun City is located) and directing them towards communities and organizations committed to bringing about true change. As a nation which trumpets the values of egalitarianism and humanitarianism, our actions should reflect as much...

Author: By John L.S. Simpkins, | Title: Don't Play Sun City Yet | 12/14/1992 | See Source »

...suffering innocence in an unjust world that has lodged in the national psyche to this day. Russians routinely use the excuse that they are innocent victims of forces beyond their control to explain away personal failures. A vague, amorphous "they" is always responsible: selfish relatives, meddlesome neighbors, greedy capitalists, corrupt bureaucrats, the government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Culture: A Mind of Their Own | 12/7/1992 | See Source »

Cumbersome, inefficient and corrupt, the Soviet economy functioned, such as it did, because it had its own internal logic. Moscow decreed the production of every tank, shoe and potato; every working-age person was supposed to have a job; and prices were stable. If the end result was not exactly according to plan -- a long-drawn-out failure, in fact -- at least the command system offered a coherent vision of what the plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Economy: Why It Still Doesn't Work | 12/7/1992 | See Source »

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