state Battalion/Page 5 November 15, 1982 Wood portrayed as gambler, womanizer ols (I foi hoiE ce said. Ifil then the l« teexdiaif ffhe redpots got a real surprise Friday morning at 'Indmi 5.30 w hen Maura Phelan, left, and Donna Smith served hem a breakfast in “Redpot Hotel” on Bonfire site The breakfast, prepared in popcorn poppers, consisted Popcorn popper gourmets staff photo by Irene Mees United Press International SAN ANTONIO — Specta tors at the murder trial of Charles Harrelson got their first real insight into his character last week by listening to taped conversations with four women Harrelson professed to love and to the testimony of a “snitch.” The evidence indicated Har relson was obsessed with the feai his family and friends would turn against him after the shoot ing death of federal Judge John H. Wood in 1979. Eventually, they did. Harrelson, 44, was the FBI’s main suspect from the day Wood was killed outside his San Antonio apartment. Authorities say Harrelson killed Wood for $250,GOO from gambler Jimmy Chagra, who feared a life sent ence from Wood at a drug smuggling trial. John Lee Spinelli, an inmate “snitch,” said he “didn’t want to end up like Mr. Harrelson.” “To me,” Spinelli said, “Charles was a puppet master. He had all these people on a string, jumping. But the strings were being cut by various things, the puppets were heading to save themselves, to get the hell out of Dodge.” Harrelson’s stepdaughter and former lovers and friends testified against him after the government promised not to prosecute them for possible in volvement in the Wood case. Before the prosecution rested last week, it painted an unflat tering picture of a convicted hit man, paroled in 1978, who re sumed his life as a dishonest gambler, a heavy drug user and a womanizer. The FBI, gathering evidence in the Wood case by wiretapping and bugging Harrelson in jail, clearly captured his different lines. “It’s important for you to know I love you unequivocally,” Harrelson told Jo Ann Robin son, the wife of rancher Hamp ton Robinson of Huntsville. The two did not know that Robinson was cooperating with the FBI and had turned Harrel son in on a weapons violation — the reason he was in jail. “I’ll get out of here next month. I’ll take you with me,” Harrelson promised his step daughter, Teresa Starr, a few days later. “I love you,” Harrelson said to Virginia Farah, a wealthy El Paso businesswoman, in a phone call. “I don’t care if it harelips the world.” “I love you, dammit, and even this will pass,” he assured his fourth wife, Jo Ann Harrelson, through the screen in a steel visiting door at the jail. of scrambled eggs, cheese omelets, bacon, sausage, and English muffins. Phelan, a sophomore from Houston, and Smith, a sophomore from Hurst, topped off the meal with fresh coffee. ay, Jnemployment fund dry |UST IN — Amid concern ab- Kit further tax increases, the of Texas had to borrow iclucimgnw a t ,^ f _, various T sandthe’if ivernment l<) meel payments *jm the unemployment com- lembers nil ensation fund. Bavlor pn® The Legislature met in spe- editor ofir sess * on * n September and ews directm to allow the state to bor- W" Kirn (niff®"' federal money — with in- H iL-liest charges that may reach as Ighas$40 million — to bail out n coordi: r* lroubled fuild - n’saidthill Despite a nearly five-fold in- or holdin r-’ ase ' n employers’ taxes pas- i is dial '-r * ( ' ur ' n S tbe Legislat tire’s spe- ' session, the fund officially ei ini[J enl dry Friday and had to bor- ' ' “wSl.8 million from the feder al government to pay $8.7 mil lion in unemployment claims. But analyst John Kennedy said the pay-out rate on which that tax increase was calculated is already proving to be below the mark. He said jobless Tex ans drew $20 million more in benefits than was expected from the fund in September and October, and he predicted un less the economy makes a dra matic recovery, Texas em ployers will be stuck with another tax hike. Nolan Ward , chairman of the Texas Employment Commis sion, said the estimated wage base, from which unemploy ment taxes are drawn, could be 10 percent lower next year than experts thought when the Leg islature met. Texas Employment Commis sioner Ken Clapp said there was no way of knowing if the projec tions were right. “We hope it’s correct because the employers don’t need another tax, just as citizens don’t need more taxes,” Clapp said. “But if it does turn out that it’s wrong, we can correct it next year when the Legislature is in session.” NOTICE I What are you really earning on I variable annuities. Call Larry and Swede to find out 693-6030 Xi /L rT4H. fA J -7.x- :::::::: *1 OFF ANY 12" PIZZA Two items or more Your choice of toppings One coupon per pizza please not vaiio during any other special offer. COUPON ^ x MX $ 3 OFF Any Party Size 20" PIZZA 2 items or more Your choice toppings One coupon per pizza please not valid during any other special offer. COUPON SE/. MX PIZZA & SUBS PIZZA A SUBS