European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 23, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday. May 23. 1986 the stars and stripes Page 5 Las vegas Nev. A Jackie Presser indicted last week on rank electing and embezzlement charges won overwhelming cd Calion wednesday to his first live year wraps president of the teamsters Union. His opponent Sam Thodus head of a 5,000-Mcmbcr Man stars local in Cleveland conceded defeat after get Ling Only 13 of 1,000 i orcs cast in the first hour of the Rol Call balloting. On pc scr s orders however inc Roll Call was ordered Leon linux. Convention officials said thai was to show the depth of precor support and hat the Union is a demo cratic one pc Sec. 59, has been head of the nation s largest Union since 1983 through in interim appointment by is h a Cutrer executive Board after his predecessor Roy Wil Liams was convicted of trying to bribe a . Senator. Opponents of Presser have vowed to file a complaint with inc labor department because of the teamsters complicated dec Gale selection process. Y in Cleveland on scheme a  mule limn run Usu Horn cams ices local 507 in Cleveland would automatically lose he Job if he is convicted on the charges. A 1984 Law passed by Congress following williams1 conviction forbids anyone convicted of a crime from hold ing Union office. The teamsters had United behind Presser calling the charges against him a Campaign of persecution aimed at Presser indic cd Friday by a grand Jur diaries thai he participated j n a payroll padding sche to embezzle mor tha $700,000 from teamsters to destroying the Union. The teamsters have had the Benefit of this Man s Charisma and leadership abilities for almost 40 fears said Donald Sawochka of Gary ind., in nominating Presser. He s Given the Union a fresh  a Liny band of pc scr opponents rallied behind Tho dus. Joe i Mai til in nominating Thodus called him u Symbol of the rank and Fili right to vote.". Weldon Malhis the teamsters Secretary treasurer and second ranking official and the Union s three trustees were elected la new Irnis without opposition. Thodus. 55, Hod predicted he would gel less than 10 percent of inc votes from the convention s 1,891 delegates. He said his Only purpose in opposing pc scr was to dramatize to officials in washing ton hat the 1.6 million rank and file teamsters have Lite voice in their Union under its Constitution and present interpretations of Federal labor Law i be been around too Tang la spin my wheels doing something that a going w gain anything he said earlier this week but it s going to Lake the labor depart ment to make a  labor Secretary William Brock fold the delegates Mon Day they should clean House saying he cannot ignore repeated charges about mob run locals and pension fund abuses in the teamsters. After shouting Down nearly a dozen proposed changes to strip pc scr of some of his Power on tuesday the 7,Soo delegates alternates and guests prepared for a tumultuous demonstration following wednesday s Vole. Mathis  appointed to his Job last year and Presser received what was viewed As a bellwether of their sure election when delegates on tuesday also rejected a proposal by a Liny band of dissidents to Cut the annual salary of each by . A White House commission an organized crime concluded in a thick report earlier this year that both Wil Liams and Presser were hand picked for and Cleva cd to the teamsters presidency by the Heads of mafia families in Chicago and new York Anthony Salerno identified As head of the cd Novyse crime family in new York City was indicted in March on charges of labor racketeering in connection with Williams  the indictment of Presser there was no accusation that he personally received any of inc Money. Denying the charges in his indictment As false and political pc scr said its timing three Days before the opening of the to Amstus convention was intended to Embarrass the working men and women of our great inter National Union. Except for a group of Aboul Iso dissidents most of the delegates alternates and guests agreed. They recalled that the government had filed us indictment against Williams just 10 Days before the Insi convention in 19b1. Including Middle reinstated by Lehman naval Academy graduates 1,015 Annapolis. My. A the italian s lop military officer admonished 1,015 naval Academy graduates wednesday to keep an open mind learn to laugh Al them selves and Noi pay too much attention to inc country s prophets of doom. In a speech thai largely avoided the references to de sense and world conflicts adm William j. Crone Laid inc new officers that the world is More exciting and vibe uni today that it Ever has  "in.fact, previous Ages have faced More disease More poverty More hunger More corruption More racism and More killing than your generation he said. The Bottom line is you should direct your energies to further improving our condition without being burdened with worrying Aboul our decline and fall he said. Among Hose receiving diplomas and officer commis Sions at Navy Marine corp. Stadium was Jeffrey Bill Issri of Cverna Park md., who successfully fought an attempt by the Academy to expel him for alleged use of cocaine. Bellistri was suspended in March by rear adm. Charles Larson Academy superintendent but was re instated a month later by Navy Secretary John f. Leh Man who said he was convinced after an investigation thin Bellistri did not knowingly Lake cocaine. A urine Sample taken from Bellistri during a routine sur prise test of a group of midshipman showed traces of cocaine but he denied having knowingly taken the drug und went Public with his fight when the Academy decided to expel him. Also among the graduates was Lynh Balc. 23. Who fled Saigon now to Chi Minh City with his Mother brother and to Sisters j1 years ago just iwo Days before the fall of South Vietnam. It graduation Means More to me than 10 my classmates said be whose father is still in a vietnamese labor Camp. Missing graduation was Michael f. Ken nay of Ogden. Utah who was arrested sunday when a Melee broke out after police came to his graduation party in response to complaints about noise lodged by neighbors. Kenny s graduation was delayed by the Academy while it investigates the incident. There were 64 women 33 hispanics 43 Macks 49 Orien tals and iwo american indians among the 1.019 graduates. Also receiving diplomas were three foreign nationals from Panama Chile and the dominican Republic graduated Natal Academy midshipmen whoop it up. Attack on Abc May help soviets Washington Upo Cia director William Casey May be trying to intimidate the news Media with his anti Lea Campaign and he could be  Viding intelligence information to the Sovi ets Legal and military experts say. Casey has asked the Justice department to consider prosecuting Abc news under an obscure 1950 National Security Law for a report naming a naval intelligence project Hie network said was compromised by accused spy Ronald Pelion on trial in Balti More. Abc news und inc correspondent who reported the Story declined to comment tuesday except to say the network s Law yers were meeting in new York. Retired adm. Cent Laroque director of the Center for defense information a military policy thin tank said Casey by pressing the Abc report May have Given the soviets unintended intelligence information. If this Man Pelton did provide information to the soviets As alleged the soviets now know through or. Casey s action that that information was highly sensitive important and prejudicial to . Interests be said up to now the soviets could Only Hope that they had received accurate information Jane Kirtley executive director of the reporters committee for Freedom of the press said Casey May be succeeding in intimidating the news Media even before Tak ing formal Legal Steps. She said she hoped this would not be chosen As the lest Case for the 1950 Law. The Beauty of this until that happens is you really Don t have anything that can be contested but yet you be managed to at least give some news organizations some serious pause about what they should be publish ing she said if you can intimidate that s almost he next Best  a network spokeswoman said it was Abc s under standing that the secret intelligence project Ivy Bells had been reported before and us. Intelligence experts said the Abc report did not appear to contain any revelations. Attorney general Edwin Meese said the Justice department would investigate and most Media organizations indicated they would wait for any action on prosecution before deciding to make any changes in news gathering policy. Lbs news executive John Kuddy said i would certainly not want to publish or air anything that would cause the loss of life in a cover operation or a catastrophic setback in american intelligence Al the same time history has been such that you never know when you re being victimized that maybe this is the first step in a move by this or any other administration to shut Down the  the Abc report by James Polk discussed the activities of pc Lon a former National Security Agency employee. He is accused of giving soviet agents information about . Interception of soviet communications Polk reported Pelion apparently gave away one of the Asa s most sensitive secrets a project with the code name Ivy Bells believed to be a top Sercl eavesdrop Ping program by american submarines in Side soviet  Ivy  according to a defense analyst who asked to remain Anonymous is part fall billion naval deception submarine reconnaissance electronic warfare and intelligence operation. Site cleared for pm Spring Hill Tenn. A bulldozers and work Crews have begun Clearing Trees fences and farm tenant houses from the site of general motors corp s planned s3.5 billion Saturn Auto Plant. The Clearing of the 500-acre tract near Haynes Haven farm about 60 Miles South of Nashville will take two months and Cost $500,000, officials said. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today May 23, 1946 president Truman or dered the seizure of 4,500 soft Coal mine Pili and designated Secretary of the Interi or , Krug As Federal mines administrator. John l. Lewis president of the United mine workers Al refused to say whether he would order the miners to continue working under government control. 30 years ago today. May 23, 1956 teams of experts swarmed Over mid Pacific Isles and roamed the seas to gather up evidence attesting to the devastating fur of America s first Hydrogen bomb air drop which bum Over Bikini a loll iwo Days ago 20 years ago today. May 23,1966 Kauai King Winner of the Kentucky Derby surged to the front in the stretch at Pamlico in Baltimore to win the 91st running of the j 185,000 pc Akness Slakes. 10 years ago foday. May 23. 1976 president Ford told the world affairs Council of Oregon that Ronald Reagan s charge that inc United states is not taking a Tough enough stand with the soviets is so much