The Michigan Daily-Saturday, June 13, 1981-Page 11
Teamsters' head
pleads innocent
to bribery.
CHICAGO (UPI)-Teamster
President Roy Lee Williams, fresh
from a White House meeting with
President Reagan, pleaded innocent
yesterday to charges he tried to bribe a
U.S. senator.
Four other suspects named with
Williams in federal conspiracy indic-
tments also appeared before U.S.
District Judge Prentice Marshall and
pleaded innocent. The five are slated to
go to trialin January.
WILLIAMS, THREE other Teamster
officials and a reputed Chicago
organized crime figure are accused of
offering Sen. Howard Cannon 5.8 acres
of Las Vegas property at a bargain
price in return for help in defeating a
trucking deregulation bill.
The defendants each face a
maximum penalty of 55 years in prison
and a $29,000 find if convicted on all 11
counts.
ASKED IF publicity surrounding his
indictment last month would hurt
Teamster recruiting, Williams said:
"We come from a tough breed. Since
I've been indicted three times before
and there have been no convictions, I
have great faith in the judiciary system
of this country."
Williams, elected to a full term as
head of the Teamsters after the death of
previous union president Frank Fit-
zsimmons, has eqlled the bribery
charges "a damn lie."
HE WAS elected overwhelmingly
despite his indictment and triumphan-
tly exercised his dominion over the
union's recent Las Vegas convention.
Williams, 66, sat across from Reagan
Thursday during a White House
meeting in the Cabinet Room with other
union officials who have endorsed the
president's economic recovery
program.
AP Photo
Rookie firefighter?
Twenty-month-old Sean Parish is more interested in his reflection than wat-
ching his dad, Jack Parish, fight a brush and junk fire a few yards away. The
senior Parish, a firefighter near Jackson, was off-duty and visiting his in-
laws when he saw the smoke and rushed to the scene with his son.
State senator seeks
to limit office terms
Williams
...'a tough breed'
Both the White House and the other
union leaders attending the session
defended the face-to-face meeting bet-
ween Reagan and Williams.
. Acting White House press secretary
Larry Speakes said the controversial
union leader "has been indicted and not
convicted, and he deserves his day in
court."
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LANSING (UPI)-All elected of-
ficials in the state should be Iunced
from office after their current terms
and those selected in their place given
but one term, Michigan's longest ser-
ving senator said yesterday.
Sen. Basil Brown, a veteran of 25
years in the state Senate, proposed
during a news conference a con-
stitutional change which would prohibit
elected officials from seeking re-
election and thus prevent them from
spending their public service time
campaigning.
"ALL THE politicians I have met
have in common is the ability to get re-
elected and many have little besides
that," said Brown, a Highland Park
Democrat, referring to the Seante as "a
squirrel cage."
"I have also observed that the
political gamesmanship and
manipulation involved in the re-election
process usually serves to frustrate the
very serious objectives, deliberation
and final problem solving of important
public issues."
WHILE HE believes his own district
has been "well served" because of his
seniority, Brown admitted "I play
games as much as anybody else."
"When there's 148 of us playing
games, the process grinds to ahalt."
Brown, who said he is leaning against
running for another term, said many
important issues have been placed on
the back burner when lawmakers con-
tract re-election fever.
"WE ARE constantly taken apart by
reporters because of lobbyists and
slush funds. If nobody has to get re-
elected, you lose all that," he said.
His one-term plan would hit all elec-
ted officials from the governor and
Michigan Supreme Court justices to
local school board and city council
members. Michigan's congressmen
and U.S. senators are not included in
the plan.
ELECTED officials would be allowed
to run for higher or lower offices, he
said.
Brown's plan needs the support of
two-thirds of the state House and
Senate to be placed on the November
1982 ballot.
If newly elected one-term officials
"knew the legislative process" coming
in,-they could easily begin their work on
important issues, Brown said.
'WHY DO THE HEATHEN RAGE?'
Psalm 2:1 and Acts 4:25
The heathen rage because they are the enemies of The Kingdom of
Heaven, the King of Eternity! "Oh God, the heathen are come into Thine
Inheritance; Thy holy temple have they defiled-"-Psalm 79:1. They can
sing and pray "Hallowed be Thy Name, Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done
on earth as it is heaven," and apparently enjoy doing so, and think they mean
it. However, when it comes to literally obeying and establishing The Heavenly
Kingdom Laws, The Moral Law, The Ten Commandments, and observing
them in our daily conduct and commerce, frequently, if not most of the time,
men are aroused to raging against them!
God is not pleased with such an offering of worship! "I hate, I despise your
feast days ... Take thou away from Me the noise of thy songs; for I will not
hear the melody of thy viols. But let judgement run down as waters, and
righteousness as a mighty stream."-Amos 5:21-24. "Why call ye Me, Lord,
Lord, and do not the things which I say?"-Luke 6:46.
"The great desideratum in the council-chamber of the infernal king has
always been how man's innate refigious feeling should be satisfied, and yet
God not be served. How could the heart be kept from God, the clamors of
conscience be silenced, and yet the demands of any instinctive religious
feeling be answered? The arch enemy of man's immortal hopes solved the
problem. The solution appears in the cunning devices he has sought out to
beguile unwary souls. He has varied his plans to suit times and
circumstances, the condition of man, the progress of society, the character
of human governments, and the condition of the human mind."-Whoever it
was that said that surely "knew his way around" in the spiritual world. And he
goes on to point out the devil's strategy down through the ages in solving
this problem with remarkable success until he gets to the place where God
says: "Thus far, but no further."
Luther, the great man of God of the 16th century, said that if he had the gift
of miracles, yet it were better to testify of his faith by obedience, ttan by
working miracles!
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