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...with Watergate. Instead, according to a secret FBI report, the $1 million was intended as a payoff for the Administration's cooperation in preventing Jimmy Hoffa from wresting the union presidency from Frank Fitzsimmons, a staunch Nixon supporter. Nixon had commuted Hoffa's 13-year prison sentence for jury tampering and mail fraud in December 1971, with the proviso that he have nothing to do with running the union until March 1980, when his sentence would have expired. But Hoffa persisted in trying to regain his old power in the union. On July 30, 1975, he vanished from...
Kennedy put Hoffa behind bars in 1967. Thus far, investigators have implicated two union chiefs in the payoff-Fitzsimmons and Anthony (Tony) Provenzano, Teamster boss in New Jersey until he was convicted for labor racketeering in 1963. After Provenzano was released from prison in 1970, he too was barred from union activities, but for five years, and he nonetheless continued to wield great power among Teamsters. He is regarded by the FBI as a prime suspect in Hoffa's disappearance...
...office a few miles away in Virginia. He was prosecuted under an interstate wire-fraud statute. In response, Senator Abraham Ribicoff has introduced a bill prohibiting misuse of federal computers or any data-processing machine affecting interstate commerce. The bill would impose stiff punishments: up to 15 years in prison and a $50,000 fine. Says Justice Department Prosecutor Tate De Weese: "This bill fills the gaps...
...thousands of facts about the early 1950s, in general, and June 17-19, 1953, in particular-from Justice William O. Douglas' last-minute order of a stay of execution to the electrocution itself. He quotes extensively (and with considerable repetition) from the Rosenbergs' trial transcripts and their prison letters, President Eisenhower's speeches, contemporary issues of TIME (which becomes a character mockingly called the "National Poet Laureate"). One chapter is devoted to the contents of the June 19 New York Times. In the next chapter, Vice President Nixon is shown reading the same issue of the Times...
...blackout. Said Manhattan Borough President Percy Sutton. a black who is running in the Democratic primary for mayor: "If we go easy on the looters, we are obliterating the moral distinction between them and the vast majority of poor people who are law-abiding." As an alternative to prison, the New York Amsterdam News, the nation's largest secular black weekly (circ.: 67,000), suggested that the looters be given "a year of hard labor in the streets," rebuilding the stores they devastated...