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...seemed just as depressing as any other Teamster hearing but there was more to it than met the ear; Lawyer John McClellan, nettled by reluctant witnesses, was hard at work trying to define some legal limits on the capricious use of the Fifth Amendment. Beck Junior and his kissing cousin, Joe McEvoy, who was next up, had overworked a new wrinkle in abuse of the Fifth. When Beck would refuse to answer questions on such matters as his occupation or salary, McClellan would ask if he "honestly believed" his answer would tend to incriminate him. Beck would not reply with...
Several times a week he visits the palace, which counts for a good deal in Iraqi politics by reason of its currently close ties with the army and the suave intriguing of Crown Prince Abdul Illah. (Unlike his cousin Hussein in Jordan, 22-year-old King Feisal is not yet a force in state decisions.) The old Pasha also visits his Defense Ministry desk, but these days his greatest interest is lavished on the work of the Iraq Development Board, which he watches over like a proud mother...
Norman Gessert, until recently a Teamster employee, who was picked up in Ellensburg, Wash, by a U.S. marshal after he had dodged the committee's subpoena servers for two months. Gessert, a cousin of Beck's wife Dorothy, took the Fifth Amendment 71 times in 21 minutes, refused to answer even when McClellan asked if he knew his counsel. Said McClellan: "I just wanted to see how ridiculous and how frivolous these things can get when people find themselves in a situation such...
...royalty, his subjects, his ministers and the full diplomatic corps gathered to do him homage. When last year Tunisia became an independent nation under Premier Habib Bourguiba. the Bey's allowance was cut to a puny $500,000 and the special laws protecting his family were repealed (one cousin was promptly sent to jail for pushing narcotics). Last week a two-line communique from government headquarters announced that May 15 was no longer to be considered a public holiday. Reduced to accepting the hand kisses of his dependent relatives on his feast day, Tunisia's Bey had little...
...fancy title and the perquisites that go with it-though the perks can be quite handsome. In 1943-when Mohammed al-Moncef showed troublesome signs of getting out of hand, the French dumped him on the ground of his being pro-German, and installed an obscure and more tractable cousin, Mohammed el Amin...