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...name means "the place of the singing stone" in the language of the Guaraní Indians. Now Itaipu has a new significance: it is the name of the largest hydroelectric dam in the world, an $18.5 billion structure that was officially dedicated last week by Brazilian President João Baptista Figueiredo and his Paraguayan counterpart, Alfredo Stroessner. Said Figueiredo after the two heads of state pulled a lever opening the dam's orange-colored floodgates: "This is an example for developing countries. Itaipu shows that our people are capable of developing our own technology...
With U.S. District Judge William Sessions presiding over the trial for his colleague's murder, three defendants face charges: Charles V. Harrelson, 44, a convicted contract killer accused of shooting Wood for a payment of $250,000 from Jimmy Chagra; Harrelson's wife Jo Ann, 42, who allegedly bought the murder rifle; and Jimmy's wife Elizabeth, 28, who is charged with covering up the crime. Jimmy will be tried separately later. The final defendant was to have been the youngest Chagra brother, Joseph, 35, an El Paso lawyer. But last month he agreed to plead guilty...
Northeastern became the first team to lead Harvard this year when Jo-Ann Lavender fed Ellen Vera on a breakaway down the left side of the field. Vera's 15 yard drive crossed into the far corner of the goal 9:57 into the game to put the Huskies on the board...
...JO GOLDENBERG'S restaurant is invariably packed, even during the lazy month of August. The foremost kosher restaurant in the picturesque Jewish quarter of Paris, Goldenberg's attracts tourists and locals, businessmen and immigrant workers, the curious and the hungry. And so it was a few Mondays ago at 1:15 p.m.: a tight squeeze by the bar, a line at the deli counter, animated conversation around the tables. Later, someone was to call it a perfect setting for a massacre...
...have been questioned in the Silverman probe, and charged him with second-degree murder. Federal investigators believe that the Mob, unable to "reach" the elder Masselli in prison, may have ordered the death of his son as a message to keep quiet. Masselli is also co-owner of Jo-Pel Contracting & Trucking Corp., which has been named in a half-million-dollar New York City landfill and excavation scandal. But investigators tend to discount this as a possible motive for Nat Masselli's murder...