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...country's slick pop sound. Perhaps best known for Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys, he recorded 16 No. 1 singles. Once a bassist for Buddy Holly, Jennings was scheduled to be on the plane in 1959 that killed Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson (the Big Bopper), but he gave up his seat because Richardson felt too ill to take...
...They’ve revitalized the square—before it was, I don’t want to say dumpy or seedy, but dark. Now it’s more nice,” says John W. Richardson, a 27-year-old who has lived near Central all his life...
...Holy Land Foundation that is truly dangerous, according to U.S. officials who last week charged that Elashi's charity helps finance the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas. President Bush froze the group's $5 million in assets, and FBI agents hauled off records from its Richardson headquarters and offices in California, New Jersey and Illinois. The charity's money, said Bush, went to schools in the West Bank and Gaza Strip to "indoctrinate children to grow up into suicide bombers" and to support families of slain bombers...
...Hamas official now in Syria, had contributed $210,000 to the foundation. At a California conference in 1994, Holy Land president Shukri Abu Baker was reportedly identified as a senior official of Hamas. According to an FBI memo, documents seized overseas showed that money moved from the Richardson office to Hamas-controlled committees in the Palestinian territories...
...connection with Hamas." An official close to the current investigation claims the FBI forestalled an attempt five years ago to freeze the charity's funds for fear it would hamper a criminal case. But on Sept. 5, Treasury and FBI agents raided the Elashi family's computer firm in Richardson, InfoCom, and froze $56,000 in assets while subpoenaing records from company clients--including the Holy Land Foundation...