Word: hoffa
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Ever since James R. Hoffa disappeared on July 30, a prime suspect in the case has been Anthony ("Tony Pro") Provenzano, 58, onetime head of Teamster Local 560 in Union City, N.J., who still controls that fief while living in Hallandale, Fla. Provenzano and Hoffa, the domineering president of the Teamsters from 1957 to 1971, were once good friends but became bitter enemies when they were imprisoned together in Lewisburg, Pa., Provenzano for extortion and Hoffa for jury tampering, fraud and conspiracy. Tony Pro wanted Hoffa to use his influence to reinstate the pension that Provenzano had lost when...
...three men were brought out in federal court in Detroit by Robert E. Ozer, head of the Justice Department's Organized Strike Force in that city. He said the three men had been named by an informer who had gone before a grand jury looking into the Hoffa disappearance. The informer's name was not revealed...
Federal officials have been told that Hoffa's murderers stuffed his body into a 55-gallon oil drum, carted it across the country and buried it in a dump in Jersey City. This week FBI bulldozers will begin to turn over the trash and garbage in an effort to find the grave of Jimmy Hoffa...
Four months after his father disappeared, Son James Hoffa has put his own campaign for union office into gear. Appearing at Teamsters' Local 299 in Detroit, the younger Hoffa, 34, won a landslide election to a $400-per-week job as the local's director of organizers. Meanwhile, his father fired a few parting shots in the December issue of Playboy, which had interviewed him before he vanished on July 30. "The only guy who needs a bodyguard is a liar, a cheat, a guy who betrays friendship," Jimmy told Playboy's reporter. "Never was afraid...
MUCH OF SALE'S book is poorly substantiated and irresponsible. In his speculation on the assassination of JFK, Sale makes no specific accusations, only notes that there were certain Rimsters who had plenty to gain from his death--Carlos Marcello of the New Orleans Mafia and Jimmy Hoffa, both under investigation by Attorney General Robert Kennedy '48, anti-Castro elements in Florida, those who suspected that the President was wavering in his commitment to South Vietnam, and Lyndon Johnson. These sorts of charges, lacking the necessary circumstantial evidence, lend credence to charges that Sale is just another left-wing paranoid...