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James Riddle Hoffa, 46, Teamster boss, built much of his empire by refusing truck service to companies picketed by labor racketeers seeking shakedown money out of phony organizational or recognition strikes. Landrum-Griffin's provisions outlaw the shakedown forms of organizational picketing, also prohibit Hoffa from automatically rejecting "hot...
For an area of the world bigger than the U.S. and Western Europe combined, the U.S., the Soviet Union and ten other nations agreed last week to disarmament and a wide-open, no-strings-attached inspection system as well. The vast (5,500,000 sq. mi.) continent of Antarctica was...
Underlying the good fellowship that produced agreement in seven weeks of negotiations was the fact that the U.S. and the Soviet Union do not claim any part of Antarctica. Nor do they recognize the often overlapping claims of seven other nations, which are "frozen" for the treaty's duration...
But the unique circumstances of Antarctica did not dampen enthusiasm to apply the treaty's principles elsewhere. Said the Russians in a statement issued by the Soviet embassy in Washington: "The significance of this agreement goes beyond the limits of Antarctica and can be a good example for adopting...
The jolly veterans who comprise the American Legion's fun-loving 40 & 8 Society have been wrangling for ten years over the Legion's insistence that they drop their ban against admitting nonwhite members (American Indians are allowed). The Legion, which itself is interracial, pushed the question to...