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Convicted on other charges were Harrelson's wife Jo Ann and Elizabeth Chagra, the wife of Convicted Drug Smuggler Jamiel (Jimmy) Chagra. Just prior to Wood's death, Chagra was awaiting trial for narcotics dealing before Judge Wood, known as Maximum John for his stiff sentences. Chagra allegedly paid Harrelson $250,000 to do the killing. Now serving 30 years for drug trafficking, Chagra will be tried next month for murder and conspiracy...
Nowhere was the outrage louder than in London. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher told the House of Commons that "this slaughter of innocent people is the product of evil and depraved minds an act of callous and brutal men." Northern Ireland Secretary of State James Prior, who visited the scene, called it "a massacre without mercy ... [one of] the most cold-blooded acts of savagery [ever] carried out in Northern Ireland." Though the I.N.L.A. apparently receives little aid from North America, a conservative M.P. seized the occasion to denounce the "collection of funds for the I.R.A...
...Financial Aid to Education (CFAE)--a private organization comprised of various corporate leaders--the country's corporations increased their contributions to education nearly 11 percent in 1981 despite a four-percent drop in profits. The total reached a record $1.14 billion, an increase of $110 million from the prior year...
...Prior to the death of Leonid Brezhnev, a fairly strong consensus had emerged among Kremlinologists that Yuri Andropov would be the next Soviet Premier. Now Soviet experts are speculating on what Andropov's assumption of power means for Russia and for the rest of the world. The Crimson this week interviewed three Soviet specialists from Harvard's Russian Research Center on their views of this post-Brezhnev era. The participants were Assistant Professor of Government Mark R. Beissinger, David E. Powell, a Russian Research Center associate who recently wrote a book entitled Anti-Religious Propaganda in the Soviet Union...
...town fathers of Blanchard, La., have passed two ordinances that give new meaning to the phrase "gag order." One is designed to prohibit city employees from publicly criticizing elected officials. A second bars employees from talking to the press or writing articles without prior permission from city hall. Blanchard (pop. 1,128) enacted the laws after area newspapers quoted an assistant fire chiefs criticism of new aldermen. Violators of the ordinances face disciplinary action in addition to possible firing. Only those few in top elective jobs will be exempted from the ban. That includes Police Chief Ted Bostwick, who grumbles...