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Argentine president ousted Weight and see Indsx D11 C15 B7 Record C6 C7 Sports B1 D11 TV D10 Deaths C6 D1 A12 C2 Weather TONIGHT: Partly cloudy and cold, low near 25. SATURDAY: Mostly sunny, high near 40. Details C2. LATE FINAL if I is A i- i Weighing more than in any previous bout, a beefy 236, Muhammad Ali boxes Trevor Berbick in the Bahamas tonight in hopes of getting another title shot. Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina The military junta on Friday removed from office ailing President Roberto E.

Viola, a former army commander who had served less than seven months of a three-year term before he was hospitalized with a heart ailment. The action by the junta, the supreme government organ since the military took power in a 1976 coup, was announced in a bulletin from the public information secretary. No reason for the action was stated. NSSZ li I Ml till Tft'X. A GANNETT NEWSPAPER WILMINGTON, DELAWARE FRIDAY, DEC.

11, 1981 111TH 1981, The News-Journal Co. 1 MJPIIMg I 'jT 3D Ex-Teamster also hit with a $27,000 fine I L- wl 1 YEAR, NO. 69 25 CENTS 03 Court today, but he smiled as he left business as usual." But Zeitz described the move as "a gesture of good faith" that could help Sheeran at his sentencing. Sheeran has been charged over the years with a variety of crimes, including murder and arson. His conviction in October on 11 counts of labor racketeering, however, T1 1 ITTT 1 I Wll III I HI I Will IIWMIJ, '-I'l-J'.

Frank Sheeran showed no emotion They already have been sentenced to prison terms ranging from eight to 20 years, but have not been jailed because they are appealing their convictions. Sheeran officially resigned all union responsibilities the presidency he already had been ordered to give up and the job of business -B1 5 at his sentencing in U.S. District agent, another post he held when he was convicted. Sheeran's letter to the executive board of the local union said he was resigning "in the best interest of the Teamsters' Union and the entire general membership" with hopes "that this will allow all of you to proceed with could no longer afford his services. "That is the most expensive lawyer I've ever heard of," the judge said.

He then summoned Kennedy to court. About an hour later, Kennedy did represent Akers, 43, when the Spanish Oaks Apartments tenant pleaded guilty to felony theft. Before Akers entered his plea, Bifferato repeatedly made clear his concern about Kennedy's fee for the single hearing. Publicity about the fee might have a negative i f1, Ill 17 rvir i Staff photo by Fred Comegys the courthouse in Wilmington. marked the first time he had been convicted of a felony.

He was found guilty of carrying a concealed deadly weapon in 1947, when that crime was a misdemeanor. It is now a felony. He still faces state charges on two counts of criminal solicitation for his part in another alleged scheme. Associated Press publicly reprimanded Kennedy. The justices ruled that he repeatedly violated the ethics code of the legal profession.

One of nine violations of which he was accused was overcharging a client. He now faces disciplinary action for challenging an attempt by the Supreme Court's Client Security Trust Fund to audit his business records. Kennedy claims the procedure is an invasion of privacy and Is questioning whether the targets of the fund's annual audits are truly chosen in a random manner. 4 MMiriions nips sireas of GsiiSssi By Francine Schwadel Staff writer Former Wilmington Teamsters leader Frank Sheeran was sentenced today to 18 years in prison and fined $27,000 for his conviction on federal labor racketeering charges. U.S.

District Judge James L. Lat-chum imposed the sentence after listening to arguments from federal prosecutor Ronald G. Cole and Sheeran's lawyer, Glenn A. Zeitz. Sheeran will remain free on $50,000 bail until his appeals are exhausted.

Zeitz said he planned to begin the appeal process today. Zeitz called the sentence "unduly harsh." Cole said, "I thought that was an appropriate sentence." Sheeran declined to address the judge, saying he was satisfied with his lawyer's arguments. Sheeran, 61, had faced maximum penalties of 77 years in prison and fines of $77,000 for his conviction Oct. 30 on federal labor-racketeering charges. Latchum ordered him later that day to give up the presidency of Teamsters Local 326, a post he held for 10 years.

Sheeran was charged under a federal law that lets judges order convicted racketeers to give up the By Cliff Haas Associated Press WASHINGTON Congress, eager to end a tumultuous year of slashing spending and taxes, today gave President Reagan $4 billion in new reductions in domestic expenditures meeting the administra-tion's austerity demands and avoiding a confrontation similar to the one that briefly halted much of the government last month. On a voice vote, the Republican-controlled Senate swept aside a succession of Democratic amendments and sent the president a huge, stopgap bill that contains the cuts and will keep the government from running out of money on Dec. 15. But in one last gasp that seemingly symbolized their year-long frustration, outnumbered Democrats complained that the voice vote had deprived them of an opportunity to formally note their -opposition and demanded a recorded vote. Again, the measure was approved.

The vote was 60-35. President Reagan will sign the legislation when it reaches his desk, perhaps Monday, deputy White House press secretary Larry Speakes said after the vote. Speakes said Reagan was Judge Vincent A. Bifferato positions juries find them guilty of using to commit crimes. The law, the Racketeer-Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, was designed to clean up unions and businesses infiltrated by organized crime.

Specifically, Sheeran was convicted of conspiring with New Jersey businessman Eugene R. Boffa Sr. to defraud members of the Teamsters local, actually cheating some of them out of wages and benefits during the 1970s, accepting Boffa's bribes and violating federal mail fraud laws. The charges focused on Sheeran's ties to a nationwide network of labor-leasing businesses controlled by Boffa and his associates. Labor-leasing firms operate legally when they contract with other companies to supply the services of Teamsters drivers.

Boffa's companies broke the law when one canceled a labor-leasing contract and was replaced by another that represented itself as an independent firm. Members of Sheeran's union lost wages, benefits and, in some cases, their jobs, when the so-called switches occurred at two Newark companies. Boffa and three of his associates were convicted in Wilmington in June for their parts in the scheme. "pleased with the cooperation that the Senate and House leadership have shown. He thinks it is a better way to deal with the problems of appropriations than the previous time" when the government was closed for several hours.

Earlier, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, told his colleagues on the Senate floor that the president's program "ist wreaking havoc with the well-being of our people." The House approved the measure, which finances government operations until March 31, on Thursday. Republicans had been working to achieve the cuts to avoid another confrontation such as the one last month in which Reagan vetoed a similar emergency bill, the government went broke for half a day and the president ordered non-essential services shut down. The Senate had worked until nearly 11 Thursday night in an attempt to finish the measure and send it to the president for his promised signature.

But several Democrats said they needed more time to prepare their amendments and the Senate considered, then rejected them, today. The Republican Senate majority defeated nearly a dozen Democratic amendments aimed at res- By Tom Greer Staff writer Superior Court Judge Vincent A. Bifferato demanded Thursday that a Wilmington lawyer explain why he charged a client $650 merely to waive an initial hearing on a theft charge then refused to return any money or continue working the case without more payment. Bifferato told attorney John B. Kennedy to explain to the client "why he spent $650 and has no attorney at this stage or you Vox 1 fi NEW DELHI, India A hurricane packing 95-mph winds lashed parts of Bangladesh and India today, leaving several thousand people missing and at least 2 million people homeless, Indian news agencies reported.

The hurricane wrecked homes, uprooted trees, knocked out power and communication lines and destroyed crops in the coastal regions of Bangladesh and the Indian states of West Bengal and Orissa, the United News of India and Press Trust of India reported. Both news agencies said tidal waves caused by the storm had submerged islands in the Bay of Bengal and flooded coastal regions. PTI said 7,000 fishermen were missing on the tiny Bangla- desh island of Dublarchar, 168 miles southwest of Dacca, which was flooded by the tidal waves. All-India Radio reported that low-lying areas of Bangladesh's Khulna, Patuakhali and Barisal districts were under water. Bangladesh Minister of State for Relief and Rehabilitation Zaffar Imam alerted army troops for rescue operations, the broadcast said.

Twenty-one people were officially reported dead in West Bengal, and 2 million were homeless, the news agencies said. Orissa Revenue Minister Upendra Dixit said no casualties had been reported in his southeastern Indian state because tens of thousands of people had been evacuated to safer places before the storm hit Thursday night. However, the important port of Paradip was "extensively damaged," Dixit said. UPI Reps. Jack Kemp, left, and Robert Walker, at White House after leading President Reagan's budget victory in House.

toring money for various social servative Democrats to dump an programs. alternative Democratic proposal The House approved the plan, that would have made less than $3 218-197, after nearly unanimous billion in cuts. That critical vote Republicans were joined by 36 con- was 222-194. impact on the public's impression of the legal profession, Bifferato said. The judge called the situation "ridiculous," and added, "I don't know what the bar is coming to.

No wonder we have a lousy name." Kennedy, 35, has four offices in the Wilmington, Claymont and Newark areas. He is one of the few Delaware lawyers to regularly advertise his fees in the news media. In 1978, the state Supreme Court explain it to me." "We did a lot of work," Kennedy told the judge. Kennedy's explanation came after Bifferato ordered a bailiff to summon Kennedy to his courtroom. Bifferato was conducting a routine review of cases in which guilty pleas were expected to be entered.

One of the defendants was William J. Akers of Richardson Park. He told Bifferato that he had no lawyer with him because he had paid Kennedy $650 for one brief previous court appearance and 0'.