Word: fostering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Strange Twist. That same day the Hoffa story took another strange twist with the emergence of Charles ("Chuckie") O'Brien, 41, Hoffa's foster son, who had disappeared the day after the former union leader dropped out of sight. Authorities were told that O'Brien, a $45,000-a-year Teamster organizer, had been seen in the vicinity of the Red Fox on the day Hoffa vanished. O'Brien stoutly insisted that he had not been in the area. But he readily admitted that he was there the following morning by what he claimed...
Questioned by FBI agents, O'Brien denied knowing what had happened to Hoffa, a claim that aroused the bitter skepticism of none other than his foster brother, James P. Hoffa. The two had never got along, their differences beginning with boyhood rivalries for Hoffa's affections. When O'Brien reappeared, young Hoffa insisted that he undergo a lie-detector exam, saying: "I demand, I demand, I demand that you take the test." But O'Brien's lawyer urged him not to undergo testing because the process was too "inaccurate...
...urged the elimination of Zionism, colonialism and apartheid. It also referred back to the Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States approved by the U.N. General Assembly last December. Under the charter, nations can expropriate foreign properties without guaranteeing equitable compensation, organize commodity cartels like OPEC and otherwise foster their own development. The vote for the Declaration was 89-2, with 18 abstentions. The no votes came from the U.S. and Israel...
...training schools only make adult criminals. "There's nobody to love the kids and no one to provide any sort of normal life." Brown should know. His earliest recollection is of being found half-starved in a room at the age of two. He then lived in five foster homes, two orphanages and a reformatory before he turned...
...witness placing Little and Remiro at the scene of the crime, the all-white jury argued for an extraordinary eleven days about whether the web of circumstances was tight enough to warrant conviction. Finally, last week the jurors were unanimous. They found Little and Remiro guilty of murder in Foster's death and attempted murder of Foster's assistant, who was wounded in the attack...