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...Federation of Interstate Truckers, a fictional labor union that only a newly arrived Martian could misunderstand as inspired by anything but the Teamsters. The movie "F.I.S.T." stands for nearly 2½ hours of almost unmitigated boredom-a misfired would-be proletarian epic with Sylvester Stallone misplaying the Jimmy Hoffa part with a self-confidence that borders on the sublime...
DIED. John L. McClellan, 81, Democratic Senator from Arkansas, whose investigations of labor unions and organized crime led to the imprisonment of Teamster Bosses Jimmy Hoffa and Dave Beck, and to Mobster Joseph Valachi's televised exposes of the Mafia; of a heart ailment; in Little Rock. Elected to the Senate in 1942, he soon became known as a cotton-country conservative-defending military expenditures, opposing the "socialistic" measures of F.D.R., advocating strict penalties for criminals. One of the first Senators to speak out against Joseph McCarthy, in 1955 he replaced the Wisconsin Senator as chairman of the Permanent...
More than that, while singing to the jurors, Gallina also told federal officials that he could identify the killers of Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa. Missing for two years, Hoffa presumably was rubbed out by members of the Genovese family for disrupting lucrative deals it had developed with the Teamsters since 1967. Gallina informed the Feds that he had hidden a tape-recorded account of the killing that included the voices of mobsters who had a hand in it. He said Hoffa's body could be found from information on the tape...
...having carried money from Marcello to Long; others in the mob there take credit for using Marcello and Teamsters money to buy seven Senate votes to help elect Long Senate Whip in 1965. The Senator, it should also be noted, took a very active interest in the Jimmy Hoffa case earlier this decade...
...repeatedly denied that he was involved in organized crime-maintaining that he was simply the owner of the Detroit Italian Baking Co.-FBI bugging transcripts linked him to the underworld. After the 1975 imprisonment of his son, Zerilli came under scrutiny by police investigating the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa...