The Nation - News from April 25, 1985

Former Teamsters President Roy L. Williams was ordered by U.S. District Judge Prentice Marshall in Chicago to report for medical evaluation on May 22 at the federal prison hospital in Springfield, Mo. Williams, 70, suffers from severe emphysema and heart problems. He and four others were convicted in 1982 of conspiring to bribe then-U.S. Sen. Howard Cannon, a Nevada Democrat, with a lucrative land deal in exchange for his help in defeating trucking deregulation legislation.