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SAN ANTONIO — Charles
Harrelson, accused of killing fed-
eraljudge John Wood, was sleep
ing in his Dallas apartment some
300 miles away at the time Wood
was shot in the back, Harrelson’s
attorney said Thursday.
Harrelson, however, had
arranged earlier to “rip-off’ El
Paso gambler Jimmy Chagra in a
phony drug deal, his lawyer said
in opening arguments.
Wood, who was trying a case
involving Chagra, was killed out
side his San Antonio apartment
on May 29, 1979. Harrelson, his
wife Jo Ann, and Chagra’s wife
Elizabeth are charged with con
spiring to kill Wood. Harrelson is
also charged with murder.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Ray
Jahn said in his statement the
government could show Harrel
son and Chagra met in Las Vegas
to arrange the slaying of Wood.
But attorney Tom Sharpe said all
contacts between Chagra and
Harrelson concerned the drug
deal.
“Jimmy was a sucker for a
scam. He had been set up be
fore,” Sharpe told the jury.
“(Harrelson) intended to take the
money and run. It had nothing to
do with killing the judge.”
Jahn said Harrelson offered
his services as a contract killer to
Jimmy Chagra to avenge the
1978 murder of Jimmy’s brother,
Lee, who was killed in a robbery
at his law office.
Mrs. Chagra is accused of de
livering Harrelson’s payoff for
killing the judge to his step
daughter in Las Vegas. But
again, Sharpe said, the money
was for a drug deal that Harrel
son never intended to pull off.
Jahn said Harrelson stalked
Wood in San Antonio for days
before the judge was shot in the
back as he was leaving for work
— the first federal judge killed in
this century.
“He (Harrelson) boasted that
it was a clean shot. But just as he
shot, the judge bent over,” Jahn
said.
The government plans to play
wiretap tape recordings to show
the defendants discussed the
judge’s murder for months after
wards.
STOPPER
775-TIPS
Drunk drivers
face probation
United Press International
I AUSTIN — The state Depart-
■ ment of Highways and Public
Transportation Thursday
announced a pilot program to
[develop specialized caseload
j probation for chronic drunken
driver offenders.
Spokesman Terry Pence said
; the program will be conducted
in four Texas cities that have not
been selected.
Case workers will have small
caseloads in the program and
will work exclusively with people
convicted of driving while in
toxicated, he said.
Jerry Johns, an insurance in
dustry official, said the Texas
Legislature should raise the
state’s legal drinking age from
19 to 21 to try and reduce
drunken driving.
Johns, president of South
western Insurance Information
Service, said alcohol abuse
among Texas teenagers is a
more serious problem than drug
abuse.
“In excess of 44 percent of all
nighttime alcohol-related fatali
ties are caused by the 16 to 24
old age group, yet they only rep
resent 22 percent of the total
licensed driver population in
this country,” he said.
Johns said many of the acci
dents could be prevented if the
sale of alcoholic beverages was
restricted to people 21 and
older.
“State residents should take a
strong position on this issue
which every year results in the
needless death and crippling in
juries to thousands of our young
people,” he said.
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Hans Bethe, Nobel laureate
and professor of physics at Cor
nell University, will deliver the
inaugural address in the Texas
A&M University E.L. Miller
Lecture Series on public policy
at 8 p.m. today in Rudder Thea
ter entitled “Energy Independ
ence is Possible".
The lectureship, established
[ in 1981 by Cooper Industries, a
Houston-based manufacturing
firm, is designed to bring inter
national authorities in public
•policy to speak at Texas A&M.
Bethe was selected the first
•Miller lecturer soon after the
•series was created and was sche-
.culed to speak last fall, but his
appearance was postponed due
to illness. The lectureship was
established with a $150,000
grant in honor of Cooper Indus
tries’ chairman of the board,
E.L. Miller.
Bethe’s post doctoral studies
were conducted under physi
cists in Europe including Enrico
Fermi in Rome, Niels Bohr in
Copenhagen and Ernest
Rutherford in Cambridge. He
earned the Nobel Prize in Phy
sics in 1967 for his discovery of
the carbon cycle. He also earned
the 1961 Fermi Prize for his
work on general theory of nuc
lear reactions.
Bethe delivered technical
presentations Tuesday and
Wednesday on supernova ex
plosions and a talk Thursday on
the global problem of energy at
Texas A&M.
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