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Jimmy Chagra, 39, is accused of hiring a hitman in May 1979 to murder John H. Wood Jr., the federal judge who had been scheduled to preside over his narcotics trial. Wood, 63, had earned the sobriquet "Maximum John" for his draconian sentences to drug dealers. Wood was shot in the back with a high-powered rifle in the driveway of his San Antonio home on May 29, the day originally set for Jimmy Chagra's trial. (Chagra was subsequently convicted on the drug charges and sentenced to 30 years in prison...
...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 to the murder-conspiracy charge and testify against Harrelson in return for a ten-year maximum sentence and the right not to testify against his brother...
Other doctors argue that BWH's Caesarean rate is high because, as a teaching hospital, it serves as a referral center for high-risk and complicated cases. And they add that concern for the safety for both mother and baby sometimes conflicts with patient preference for "natural" childbirth and maximum choice for the mother, who may not want to be operated on or drugged...
...Some person out there knows what happened to her," father said Tuesday at a Boston news conference. It had been called to announce that a toward for information leading to Joan's whereabouts has been increased from $10,000 to a maximum $50.000. An executive with an international conglomerate. George Webster appeared calm and confident throughout the conference. Terry, a red-haired, conservatively dressed housewife, rarely displayed signs of emotion...
...arguments became sharper and more heated. I said that an Israeli commitment to withdraw was imperative, but that I was not trying to specify how much. I insisted that the interim proposal to let the Palestinians have full autonomy be as forthcoming as possible, with maximum authority for the people who lived on the West Bank and in Gaza. A continuing military occupation and deprivation of basic citizenship rights among the Arabs was unacceptable to the world and contrary to the principles that had always been such an integral part of Jewish beliefs. Begin shifted back to Sadat's proposal...