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...International Brotherhood of Teamsters meets next week in Las Vegas, where many of the casinos have been financed in part by loans from the pension funds of the union's 2 million members. The principal duty of the delegates will be to elect interim President Roy L. Williams, 66, to a full five-year term, and some will do so without much enthusiasm. The new head of the Teamsters, which has had trouble with the Justice Department for 25 years, has been indicted three times-in 1962, 1972 and 1974-on federal charges of embezzlement and records falsification...
...political activist who strongly opposed the U.S. involvement in El Salvador. Deciding to investigate the situation on his own, he became an interpreter for a Chicago television crew-he was fluent in Spanish-and arrived in San Salvador three weeks ago. Then, after attending Mass on Sunday, Father Roy Bourgeois, 42, a Maryknoll priest, simply vanished. The initial assumption was that he had become yet another victim of the country's endemic political terrorism. "I'm as certain as I can be that he didn't disappear of his own free will," said his superior, Father James...
This week the Teamsters' 21-member executive board meets in Las Vegas to pick a replacement. The leading candidate is Roy L. Williams, 66, a protégé of Fitzsimmons'. The president of union Local 41 in Kansas City, Mo., Williams began driving a truck in 1935 and joined the Teamsters three years later. As a trustee of the Teamsters' $2.8 billion Central States pension fund, Williams has been probed by federal officials for mismanagement and ties to organized crime. He has been indicted three times on federal embezzlement and records falsification charges, but never convicted...
...Strauss, Haas built the jeans-making firm into a sportswear conglomerate that had $2.8 billion in sales last year. Haas, whose family is an anchor of Bay Area society, quietly serves on corporate and charity boards. In a limited partnership with Son Walter J., 30, and Son-in-Law Roy Eisenhardt, 42, he acquired a team that was a smouldering shambles. Finley lost or traded away its talent. The farm system had gone to seed. The Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum had fallen into such disrepair that the scoreboard did not always work, and functioning concession stands were hard to find...
Friends and employees of Roy Bourgeois, an American priest who has been missing since Monday in El Salvador, yesterday challenged El Salvador's president juse Duarte a assertion that Bourgeols "many have disappeared of his own accord," or that "he might have secretly joined the leftist guerrillas...