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:imsure[ HOUSTON — A federal
oiind. “H Idge has decided a second Col-
»e tira es ; .||ao resident will be tried start-
officerliOg Monday along with the
spokes!naiB e d mastermind of a $15
dtheo[f(B on bomb-extortion scheme
at a Gulf chemical plant.
Bl.S. district Judge Gabrielle
dd theyt (Ronald told lawyers late last
r the otHt that Durango, Colo., gun
swithay^op manager and survivalist
tomach utfitter Michael Worth, 34,
Bd be tried alongside his
oOtfetfcBicss partner, John
'oeraltii [ c Bride, 46, in the first of four
an. Iwoi ; j a | s a f the case. Jury selection
recornertMl to begin Monday. Testi-
notiseaniMy could begin on Thursday,
j SUIC1 'Bcbride is the man prosecu-
irs say directed a bold plot
seven aAi! caused Gulf Oil Ghemic-
l, rblbS^ 0 ' to evacuate its huge
' 'Bar Bayou plant near
Bytown for a week last Septem-
er. Originally, he was to be
H for that alone. He and
iret co-defendants face 12
rarges ranging from extortion
mspiracy, transportation of
tplosives and using the mail
Id
ts
and the phone for unlawful pur
poses.
Worth previously was
granted two trials by Judge
McDonald after defense mate
rial introduced into court re
cords indicated McBride was
supposed to have threatened
Worth and two other co
defendants to assure their
alleged continued involvement.
Worth in this trial faces six
charges based on his actions be
fore Sept. 28, a date McBride
said he began making threats.
Worth’s second trial will focus
on six charges regarding activi
ties after that date.
Since last September, when
Gulf received the threats, feder
al agents have marshaled 60 wit
nesses to testify about the com
plex plan to get $15 million at
Gulfs expense. Pretrial testi
mony indicated the original plan
called for an extortion letter and
three copies containing detailed
instructions to be delivered to a
Gulf employee who would pro
vide the ransom at a location
near Phoenix, Ariz.
“Since the delivery will re
quire the courier driving
around a metro area, have him
carry a firearm; it would be a
mess if he was robbed,” the letter
said.
Court records indicate the
original plan called for bombs at
a Port Arthur refinery as well.
They were not planted,
Michael Worth pre
viously was granted two
trials by Judge McDo
nald after defense mate
rial indicated John
McBride was supposed
to have threatened
Worth and two other co
defendants to assure
their alleged continued
involvement.
although for several days Gulf
was unsure if bombs had been
put in its offices nationwide.
When the letter was received.
Gulf evacuated the Cedar Bayou
facility, and authorities found
five crude bombs and a hole in a
fence where extortionists had
entered. Bomb experts deton
ated one of the bombs harm
lessly.
Prosecutors said they would
rely heavily on the testimony of
Tim Justice, 30, who allegedly
planted the bombs and has
pleaded guilty to two counts in
exchange for testifying against
the other four defendants. He
has not been sentenced.
McBride business associate
Michael Worth, 34, and former
Texas college professor Ted
McKinney, 45, were on a phone
in Apache Junction, Ariz., with
the Gulf employee giving direc
tions for a money drop. They
were the first arrested.
Their arrests led to the arrest
of McBride, Justice, and
McBride’s estranged common
law wife, Jill Renee Bird, 37, all
of Durango. She has moved
since to Pasadena, Calif.
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jfthem! NEW ORLEANS — To
ms" \\wB ds an d political associates,
issible vi(B ra g uan Consul Augustin
jn^. ifaro was a committed Catholic
j man , ho kept a low profile in his pri-
Ite life
(OTtractol,
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nvorkwiBr wa y straight, and a good
homes ivB" Bolivian Consul Edgar
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han ISwbB aro was tEie on v Nicara-
In official to remain in this
,, |TM( ! t untry last week under expul-
imjorders from the State De-
irttnent.
In an eleventh-hour move, he
Red into the Immigration
rrjyitd Naturalization Service
Vv/1 Ike Wednesday to apply for
political asylum rather than re
turn to his native Nicaragua.
He told reporters minutes af
ter filing his application that he
chose to defect to the United
States, where he has lived for
about 10 years, rather than face
Nicaragua’s oppression of
speech, religion and the press.
Since then, Alfaro and his
family have disappeared from
public view.
The friends and business
associates he left behind know
little about his background and
generally consider him an
enigma.
A number of local Nicara
guans believe his appointment
to the consulate 10 months ago
stemmed from a desire of the
Sandinistas to compensate him
for his father’s death at the
hands of Anastasio Somoza
forces in 1954.
Alfaro’s father reportedly was
a former Nicaraguan national
guardsman who died when he
and other disaffected soldiers
crossed into Nicaragua from
Costa Rica in an attempt to over
throw the Somoza regime.
A former Nicaraguan gov
ernment official living in New
Orleans said Alfaro’s mother
went to Cuba to live for 20 years,
while Alfaro was raised by his
grandfather, a general in the
army. She reportedly returned
to her Central American home
oman, 70, attempts
collect national debt
uson, suga|
lack and lii
cess ofotaj
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joisonth Z A1 J ATA — Humbly, quietly
1 persistently, Margaret
attedandkB is about to reach a
™ tone in her effort to retire
tfico 9(| f I1;it >onal debt. After addres-
allas' until n §-’^OO letters asking for con-
amilton (jffOoHS on behalf of the net-
Rt, the National Debt Retire-
t Network, of which Wick
iprises the Texas chapter,
[collected about $900,000
ationwide.
Ilhe national debt has a statu
ary ceiling of $1.4 trillion, but a
ressional staff study re-
d Sunday pegged the actual
unt at closer to $7 trillion,
budget” federal obliga-
such as farm, housing and
corporate loan guarantees con
stitute the largest part.
A $7 trillion national debt —
assuming Congress borrows no
more — would require Wick and
the network to roughly dupli
cate their latest achievement
7,000,000 times.
She remains undaunted.
“I try to take it from the stand
point that if you can get a few
million people to donate a mod
est amount apiece, you can get
quite a pile of money,” she said.
Wick said she and her retired
husband, who live in a border
county with 17 percent unem
ployment, have not been able to
contribute money to the cause,
but she stressed that individuals
of limited means can help — and
should.
“People think that if the pri
vate sector pays the public debt,
they won’t be economy-minded
up in Washington,” she said re
cently.
“Well, that may be true, but if
they’re in office, they should do
their duty, durn ‘em.”
The idea of private repay
ment of the public debt dates
back 20 years to Dallas business
man Vaughn Cullen, who left
the nation a $20 million trust to
pay the debt.
That created a stir in Con
gress, which had to pass a special
law to accept the money.
when the Sandinista faction
assumed power.
In New Orleans, Alfaro was
popular among his friends.
“He helped us when my
father-inlaw was thrown injail in
Nicaragua,” Spanish Consul En
rique Iranzo said.
Eugene Schreiber, managing
director of the International
Trade Mart, said Alfaro kept a
low profile because of “the awk
ward situation he was in.
“He did not have an easy job
being consul here, in the same
way our diplomats in Nicaragua
are not in a good position,” he
said. “But I thought Alfaro
handled himself extremely well
under what were extremely dif
ficult circumstances.”
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Karyn Hurley, a junior physical
education major from College
Station, and Nancy Algert, a
sophomore physical education major
from Houston, oversee their
home-made water slide at a day camp
sponsored by the health and
physical education department last
week. Hurley and Algert are both
counselors at the day camp.
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debts in amcient Rome could be
punished by being pulled apart
with wild horses or cut up with a
dull ax, with the biggest creditor
getting the first whack.
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