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Impostion of Ashes
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Liturgy of Holy Communion Impostion of
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Page SCThe BattalionCTuesday, February 11, 1986
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A&M building worker
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By BRIAN PEARSON
Senior Staff Writer
A man was killed Monday morn
ing as a result of an accident at a
Texas A&M construction site.
Robert C. Lewis, 29, a resident of
College Station, was killed instantly
at the new chemistry building site
when a metal acetylene container,
weighing between 50 and 75
pounds, fell about five stories and
hit him on the head.
Lewis was a construction worker
at the site, which is located at the cor
ner of Spence and Ross streets.
Bob Wiatt, director of security
and traffic at A&M. said the accident
happened as a crane was about to
take acetylene containers from the
fifth floor and lower them to the
ground.
“They (construction workers)
were in the process of putting the
container on the lift and somehow it
slipped off,” Wiatt said.
He said Lewis, who was wearing a
construction helmet at the time, was
standing on the ground when he was
hit.
Lewis, who lived in trailer 17 at
201 Krenek Tap, was taken to Me
morial Funeral Chapel in Bryan.
Workers at the construction site
were sent home for the rest of the
day.
Man required to testify
against sister-in-law
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AUSTIN — Joe Chagra, who
claimed a plea bargain freed him
from testifying against relatives,
must take the stand in his sister-in-
law’s retrial on charges of plotting to
kill a federal judge, a judge ruled
Monday.
U.S. District Judge William Ses
sions said Chagra must testify when
the trial of Elizabeth Chagra begins
Tuesday.
Chagra, an El Paso attorney serv
ing 10 years for his part in the 1979
assassination of U.S. District Judge
John Wood, claimed an agreement
he made with the government in
1982 protected him from testifying
against any member of his family.
After an hour-long hearing, Ses
sions said, “The court feels that de
spite your strong feeling against ap
pearing against any of your family it
is not unreasonable to require you to
testify.”
Earlier, selection of ajury of seven
men and five women was completed
for the trial that is expected to last
two to four weeks.
Sessions urged the jurors not to
look at a television set or glance at a
newspaper during the trial.
Mrs. Chagra was convicted in
1982 of conspiracy in the fatal shoot
ing of Wood, who was felled by a ri
fle shot as he left his San Antonio
home.
Wood, who was known as “Maxi
mum John” because of his stern sen
tences for drug dealers, had been
scheduled to preside in the govern
ment’s drug case against Mrs. Cha-
gra’s husband, Jimmy Chagra.
Mrs. Chagra’s conspiracy verdict
was overturned by the 5th U.S. Cir
cuit Court in New Orleans, which
said Sessions gave the jury improper
instructions.
At the San Antonio trial, there
was testimony that Jimmy Chagra
was afraid he would be sentenced to
life in prison and that he, with the
aid of others, hired Charles Harrel-
son to kill the judge.
Joe Chagra testified Monday he
agreed to testify against Harrelson,
provided he did not have to testify
against his older brother.
“My main concern was not to tes
tify against any member of my fam-
Around town
The Big Event:
All individual students and student organizations are encour
aged to volunteer their services to “ The Big Event” March 8. Appli
cations are available on the second floor of the MSC in the Student
Programs Office and on the second floor of the Pavilion in the Stu
dent Government office. Applications ate due Feb. 21. For more in-
formation call 845-3051.
Off Campus Aggies:
Off Campus Week will consist of a happy hour at Casa Tomas
from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. today and a “sock hop*’ Friday in Deware Field
House. Benefits will go to the Muscular Dystrophy Association. For
more inf ormation call Joyce. 696-3826.
Westminster Presbyterian Church:
“The World at Your Door” conference will begin Friday at'
p.m. with workshops arul presentations from 8:30 a m. to2:45p.m
Saturday and worship service at 1 1 a.m. Sunday. The keynote
sj>eaker for the conference will be Rev. Terry Traylor, pastor of
Convent Presbyterian Church in Harlingen, who has worked among
Jamaicans in Florida and helped to start an international mission
church in McAllen. Other speakers include Ted Elder and William
Williams. The conference will fie held in Westminster Presbyterian
Church at 3333 Oak Ridge Drive in Bryan. Nursery facilities art
available. Call 268*4284 alter 5:30 p.m. for more information.
Office of Cooperative Education:
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for students majoring in journalism, speech communications, the
ater arts, management, marketing and recreation and parks whoare
interested in working internship positions lot one semester only is
summer or tali. Students in the alxrve majors must attend the infor
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ily,” he said Monday. “I kept my part tence, applied only to testiro
of the bargain, and I am asking the about Jimmy Chagra.
government to keep thein
The prosecutor who handled the
1982 trial said the plea bargain
agreement, which allowed Joe Cha
gra to get a maximum 10-year sen-
W. Ray Jahn, the lawyer said
expressly rejected his request that it
not testify against F.lizabeth Chap
There was no gentlemen!
agreement or any other kind fork:
not to testify against her.”
Senator eligible to run for Mattox’s job
Associated Press
HOUSTON — The 1st Court of
Civil Appeals on Monday ruled that
state Sen. J.E. “Buster” Brown, R-
Lake Jackson, is eligible to contend
for the Texas attorney general’s
post.
After the three-judge panel ruled
he was eligible for the Republican
primary in May, Brown said, “I’m
excited about the order. I’m glad to
have it over with so that we now will
get on the ballot and continue our
compaign for attorney general.”
Brown asked the Texas Supreme
Court to order party chairman
George Strake to permit the senator
on the Republican primary ballot as^
an attorney general candidate. But
the court on Feb. 3 refused to con
sider Brown’s request, so Brown
took the case to the Houston appeals
court.
The question of Brown’s eligibility
centered on a provision in the state
Constitution saying a legislator is in
eligible, during the term for which
he was elected, for “any civil office . .
. which shall have been created, or
the emoluments of which may have
been increased, during such term.”
In 1985 the Legislature raised the
salary of the attorney general from
$70,400 to $71,100, an increase of
less than 1 percent.
But the Legislature also put a spe
cial provision on the bill that said if a
lawmaker is elected to another of
fice, such as attorney general, the
salary of that office would be rolled
back to what it had been before the
bill was passed.
Brown argued he should be al
lowed to seek the attorney’s general’s
post in November because the in
crease was less than 1 percent and
the provision stated he wouldn’t get
the increase even if he was elected.
Brown, 44, has served in the
Texas Senate since 1981.
Three other Republicans are
seeking incumbent Attorney Gen
eral Jim Mattox’s post — State Dis
trict Roy Barrera Jr. of San Antonio,
former Williamson County Disliii
Attorney Ed Walsh and State Disrc
Judge John Roach of McKinney.
Mattox, the only Democrat on tl*
ballot, said he had not seentheopi
ion of the appeals court.
However. Mattox said, “AsI
said all along, one Republican;
about the same as another to me.
“If you look at the clear wonfaj
of the constitution, any lay perc
could see his candidacy violatesti
wording of the constitution, k
that’s not saying a court couldn
give it some interpretation,” Mam
said.
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