Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That afternoon, according to both accounts, Hoffa left his suburban Detroit home and drove alone in his car to the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Township. He expected to be picked up there to go elsewhere for the meeting with Provenzano. Soon afterward, Charles ("Chuckle") O'Brien, 41, pulled into the parking lot. Hoffa apparently got into the car voluntarily. He had good reason to trust O'Brien; the Hoffas had raised him after the death of his father. His mother had been a close friend of Mrs. Hoffa's. Brill reports that also...
...have been taken somewhere else and killed. Brill believes that Hoffa's body was later completely destroyed in a large trash shredder, compactor or incinerator-or some combination of all three-at Central Sanitation Services in nearby Hamtramck, Mich. The refuse-disposal company is owned by two Detroit crime figures, Raffael Quasarano and Peter Vitale...
...explanation, Rodney G. Ironside, GM's personnel director in South Africa, declared that the company only wanted to help the employees: "There are 114 ways a black can be relieved of his money and GM is not going to be one of them." GM's Detroit headquarters has since moved to push its South African subsidiary more into line with the Sullivan Code. Two weeks ago, it announced that it would spend about $4.5 million to integrate some segregated facilities (including lavatories and locker rooms) and set up programs to prepare more nonwhites for supervisory jobs...
Chicago 19, Detroit...
Cleveland 2, Detroit...