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Peanut-Butter Sandwich. Though his term as Teamsters' president runs until 1971, prison authorities have stated flatly that Hoffa will not be permitted to operate the union from the Lewisburg penitentiary-where he made the uncharacteristically delicate gesture of using his raincoat to hide the handcuffs on his wrists. Like any other prisoner, he will be allowed only seven letters a week-all of which will be read by the warden and returned if they contain business matters-and three hours monthly for visits by his family or attorneys working on his appeal...
While he is in prison, Hoffa's $100,000 salary will be reduced to a $48,000 living allowance for his wife, and the union will be headed by his Detroit crony, Frank E. Fitzsimmons, under the title of general vice president. Chubby and smiling, Fitzsimmons will have his hands full trying to keep the Teamsters' regional rivalry from re-emerging. "He's just a peanut-butter sandwich," said one union official. "He'll melt in no time...
...three-year labor-camp sentence imposed last December on Buel Ray Wortham, 25, of Little Rock, Ark., who had been convicted of stealing an antique statue of a bear from a Leningrad hotel and of changing money on the black market (TIME, Dec. 30). In place of the prison sentence, Wortham was ordered to pay a 5,000-ruble ($5,555) fine. The decision came after a plea by a group of Little Rock townfolk, who had promised to pay whatever fine the court levied...
...cell at the top, first as a hard-drinking guerrilla fighter, then as a brutal apparatchik. Mňačko weaves a picture of a pathetic, subhuman instrument of an inhuman system that ultimately traps and isolates him. Unlike some Communist contemporaries who view their success from prison,* Mňačko still haunts the Olympia Grill, his favorite bar in Prague, where he is treated like a local hero. "All of the incidents in the book are true," he said last week. "We thought we could handle power better than the people we took it from...
When Bui hinted at the story, Minister of Justice Shapiro ordered the magazine to put out a revised edition with the nudes in place of the offending story. Later, at a secret trial, Editors Mohr and Ghilan were each sentenced to a year in prison. Despite all the precautions, the foreign press broke the story. Only then was the Israeli press allowed to tell...