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...reminiscent of those played during the Watergate conspiracy trial of 1974, was from a newly disclosed tape. The recording, of a five-minute conversation between Nixon and Haldeman, was made on the White House taping system in May 1971. The subject: a plan to bring in what Haldeman called Teamster "thugs" to intimidate demonstrators then descending by the thousands on Washington to protest the Viet Nam War. The transcript was revealed last week by freelance Investigative Reporter Seymour Hersh in the New York Times. It strongly suggests that Nixon authorized illegal operations by White House subordinates to counter growing antiwar...
...That three important Teamster officials-Frank Fitzsimmons, then president, William Presser, then boss of Ohio's Teamsters, and his son Jackie-met regularly with the IRS agents between 1972 and 1974. The trio allegedly supplied information about their foes in the union, in the hope of persuading the Government to prosecute these enemies rather than themselves...
...agents in Washington, Miami, Cleveland and Las Vegas. They hoped to arrange "targets of exchange"-people that the Government could prosecute instead of themselves or their cronies. These turned out to be Fitzsimmons' enemies. Three whose names occur in the agents' reports were Jimmy Hoffa, the former Teamsters president whom Nixon had just released from prison on condition that he take no part in running the union until 1980; Harold Gibbons, a Hoffa loyalist who was boss of the Teamsters in St. Louis; and Jay Sarno, who had built two Las Vegas casino hotels with loans from Teamster...
...that under oath some of the people named in the IRS reports might yield clues to Hoffa's fate. The Justice Department turned them down. Says one FBI agent: "Can you imagine the scene? Fitzsimmons, the Pressers, White House aides, Nixon Administration officials all trooping in; questions about Teamster campaign contributions and 'exchange targets'-it would have been a replay of Watergate. Nobody in the department wanted that." So the FBI investigation wound up last year without results, and the contents of the Daley-Dennis reports remained unknown to the public-until...
...shot involving a small boy who nearly falls off a roof. At the edge of a vast lawn, a fake rock wall and Styrofoam cannon mark the location of the sex scene. The trucks that moved the cameras, props and coils of electrical spaghetti have been converted into Teamster poker parlors. For the hot, thirsty crew that has assembled jv this summer on the bosky Georgian campus of the Millbrook School near Poughkeepsie, N.Y., it is another wrap in the filming of The World According to Garp. But for John Irving, au thor of the 1978 bestseller, and for Robin...