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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...
...Cousins Baron Alain and Baron Elie, including New Court Securities, a U.S. investment firm based in New York City, which will now receive more of the family's attention and money. And beginning Jan. 1, 1982, New Court will change its name to a more golden sounding sobriquet: Rothschild...
...countered with an offer of only 3.8%. When the unions' militant shop stewards recommended that the workers strike, the chairman coldly threatened to fire them and shut down entire sections of the company. These tactics finally forced the workers to accept the lower wages and won Edwardes the sobriquet Supermike...
...countrymen refer to him, both admiringly and pejoratively, as "the Bulldozer." He walks like a man about to topple forward under his weight (235 lbs.), each large step shaking the floor as he advances. Both the sobriquet and the gait are appropriate, for Israel's new Defense Minister, Ariel ("Arik") Sharon, 53, whose responsibilities include administration of the Arab territories occupied since 1967, is already exerting more political weight than all his colleagues combined in Prime Minister Menachem Begin's four-week-old Cabinet...
...that woeful rule. There, a Texas-style shoot-out is being staged by two local papers: the deeply conservative Morning News (daily circ. 283,700), which used to be dismissed as the Morning Snooze, and the Times Herald (daily circ. 243,500), whose sensational coverage once earned it the sobriquet Crimes Herald. Locked in a struggle to become the best in the booming Southwest, both papers are rapidly piling up prizes as well as profits. At the same time they are proving, as the Times Herald put it in a nationwide help-wanted campaign, that "there's more...