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...they started to hunt for Hoffa, the police made the traditional observation that they suspected "foul play." They had every reason to do so, considering Hoffa's criminal record, which he once boasted was "as long as your arm," and his activities in recent months. As usual, Hoffa was again in the middle of a Teamster battle, only this time he was starting as the underdog. His eventual goal was to regain the presidency of the Teamsters union, which he had first won in 1957. Jailed in 1967 on a 13-year sentence for jury tampering, fraud and conspiracy...
...VIGILANTES: FAIR MEANS OR FOUL...
...take their turns patrolling the nearby streets. Usually they are armed with nothing more than clubs and whistles. In Chicago's Woodlawn, a secret organization composed of 22 blacks, half of whom are Viet Nam veterans, has sworn to eradicate crime in the ghetto area by fair means or foul. Late at night and early in the morning, members of the group walk the avenues and alleys of their neighborhood, meting out their own law-and-order to those they consider criminals. "Every now and then, folks dealing in dope get their doors kicked in and their shit messed...
...suspicion is that two Presidents-Dwight Eisenhower and John Kennedy -authorized or condoned foul plots by the CIA to do in several foreign leaders. Democratic Senator Frank Church of Idaho, who heads the Senate investigating committee, has claimed to have "hard evidence" of the agency's complicity but nothing that would implicate any President. Still, in the singular relationship of the agency to presidential authority, evidence of a CIA assassination plot would seem to implicate one President or the other, even both, unless, of course, the CIA had become a law unto itself. What the Rockefeller commission report revealed...
...Minnesota Twins have marked their stadium in both feet and meters. The distance from home plate to the left-field foul pole is indicated by two numerals painted on the stands: 100 (for meters) and 330 (for feet...