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Attorney General Bobby Kennedy and Teamster President Jimmy Hoffa would make a great passing combination-if insults and accusations were footballs. Last week it was Jimmy's turn to toss: free after standing federal trial in Nashville, Tenn., Hoffa charged that Bobby had tried to tell Nashville Banner Publisher James G. Stahlman what the paper "should or should not print" about the trial. Moreover, he said, he could provide a transcript of a telephone conversation in which Bobby pressured Stahlman...
...Spoiled Brat." In post-trial interviews, Hoffa accused Judge Miller of prejudice, described Prosecutor James F. Neal as "one of the most vicious prosecutors who ever handled a criminal case for the Justice Department.'' All Hoffa's troubles, he said, came because Attorney General Bobby Kennedy had declared a "personal vendetta" against him. "There is no question.'' said Hoffa. ''he's a spoiled brat...
...Hoffa had understandably kind feelings toward the jury. He was grateful, he said, "that under our American system there can be independent judgments by the jurors. This indicates that under provisions of the Constitution . . . only the jury system stands between the defendant and the law enforcement agencies, who seem to believe that while working for the Government their sole and only objective must be to convict regardless of the process...
Another grand jury in Chicago is investigating alleged irregularities in the Teamster pension fund, and Hoffa already faces a fraud charge involving the misuse of $500.000 of union funds in a Florida real estate development. All in all, it seemed possible that Jimmy Hoffa still might not have the last word...
...agents say they are mightily intrigued by such a chemical, but equally unaware of its existence. If Hoffa has the formula, they wish he'd share...