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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...
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...
...Government Prosecutor Ray Jahn argues that Jimmy Chagra was "greatly fearful of Judge Wood." He points out that Chagra's own lawyer had requested that Wood excuse himself from the case, citing bias, but Wood refused. According to the prosecution's scenario, Jimmy and Joseph then agreed to have the judge murdered, and in the spring of 1979 Jimmy met Charles Harrelson in Las Vegas and offered him the job. Jahn plans to introduce tape recordings made secretly by the FBI when Joseph visited Jimmy in 1980 in the federal prison in Leavenworth, Kans. On those tapes, says...
JOHN DELOREAN USED TO TELL people that someday Holly wood would make a movie of his life. It was to be classic American Dream tale of a poor kid who makes good. Thinking about De-Lorean's story, you had to admit that all the ingredients were there for an upbeat flick. A hardened father works on an automobile assembly line in Detroit. His son loves cars but wants more than his dad ever had, So with almost frantic determination, the kid makes his way up through the ranks of his father's company, becoming a major executive sports...
...came quickly, if not unexpectedly. In the wood-and-marble chamber of Poland's Sejm (parliament) last week, row upon row of Deputies lifted their right hands high. By an overwhelming vote, they decreed the death of Solidarity, the 9 million-member independent union federation that for 16 months had shaken the entire Soviet bloc with its bold cry for freedom. That vote, approving a sweeping new trade-union law, finished the job that General Wojciech Jaruzelski had begun when he imposed martial law and suspended Solidarity last December...