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...have headed the nation's largest union (current membership: 1.8 million) during the past quarter-century. Three- Dave Beck, Jimmy Hoffa and Roy Williams - were convicted of federal crimes. Now there is an argument within the Justice Department about whether prosecutors should continue to urge a fed eral grand jury in Cleveland to indict Jackie Presser, who succeeded Williams as president in 1983. The charge would be that as secretary-treasurer of Cleveland's Local 507, a post he still holds, Presser signed checks making large payments of union funds to "ghost employees" who did no work. Presser...
...Bolivia, the government move drew an angry response from former Finance Minister Flavio Machicado, who two weeks ago quit the Cabinet of President Hernan Siles Zuazo. Machicado charged that the President had caved in to pressure from the powerful Bolivian Cen tral Labor Union, which led an April gen eral strike to protest belt-tightening mea sures demanded by the International Monetary Fund. Said Machicado: "This renegotiation idea is absurd...
When the only patron with politically lib eral sympathies begins to orate, the bar tender-proprietor warns: "You start talkin' about niggers and America in here tonight, I swear you won't get another drink till winter. You understand?" Such moments surpass the contrivances of plot; surprise fades in the glare of recognition...
Correspondent Mary Cronin, reporting her first British gen eral election, marveled at the intensity of the four-week campaign, an eye-flick in duration compared with the marathon U.S presidential quadrennial. "One day," Cronin says, "we caught up with Labor Leader Michael Foot at noon industrial Midlands. In the next four hours, he dropped in at local party headquarters, gave speeches at shopping centers, talked to a university students' gathering and held a press conference, all followed by a speech that night in Coventry and a radio interview...
...sale clauses for them. In the battered thrift industry, the decision is a welcome break that will prevent substantial losses. More important, improved cash flow for S and Ls should increase the amount of mortgage money available and eventually maybe even lower interest rates a bit. Mortgages from fed eral S and Ls that were passed along with their consent before the court's decision probably cannot be called in, and the decision does not apply to commercial banks or other lenders. But for many home buyers and sellers in the immediate future, one of the few ways...