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Wednesday, February 26, 1986n"he Battalion/Page 5 -v arped by Scott McCullar n TLD KOPPflL. pop THC PA1, lt'5 #05 TO BKIVG '100 OF (tATF- ON THE LATEST HAPPENINGS. OUR CORRESPONDENTS THE NEWS PROM WHERE T OCCURS TO WHERE FOU ARE AS SOON AS IT irsh Reality by Gish 'tnsre/Mj oourtr /s HMO A&oht YWl C-^^5 5 JlMOE CM YomZ LAS7~ vr, A Art — HauJ Qo Yml EXPECT US TO KEEP THE &EPUTAT10H OF A TOUOH SO-Zool IF You H-/VB. our OP-APES EPflE rHA-T? / (HELL, THE j STuDEAJrs AT A+h 1 ARE rHE TOP SrupE-AJTS /A> THE CoutorQ. y i ILlte, ) I Doaj't cA/IE if THEY TOXfE TJ?0Ft the Top duAZTE/l OP THEIR Him ST HodL ElH'ZS— YET 77/0JE AVERASES / PexaJAJ j Bur Hcuj t?o z. HAP OLE THE §t! US£ (HTJMIPHtjof/ / Am, f EH7;M/0A7T0AJ\ ( Chagra case now in hands of jurors Associated Press AUSTIN — Eight men and four women were asked Tuesday to de cide exactly what part Elizabeth Cha gra played in a plot to kill U.S. Dis trict Judge John Wood in San Antonio. Assistant U.S. Attorney LeRoy Jahn, in final arguments, said, “She i was not an innocent bystander. She was a total participant.” Defense attorney Warren Burnett said,“There is no evidence that Liz did a mean thing to anyone. “The mere knowledge of a de fendant that others have conspired to violate the law, even with her full sympathy, will not make her a con spirator.” Chagra, 32, is charged with con spiracy to commit murder in the ri fle slaying of Wood outside his con dominium May 29, 1979. If convicted, she faces up to 30 years in prison. The jury changed Tuesday when U.S. District Judge William Sessions said he had been informed a woman juror had overheard two women ju rors say they were prejudiced. After talking with the three women, Sessions dismissed Irma Nava, an Austin cake decorator. Nava felt she might be influenced because she had been the victim of a robbery last summer. Sessions allowed another woman juror to remain on the panel over defense objections. Burnett argued that she had said her reported con versation in the jury room indicated she might be prejudiced against His- panics, “which is the ancestry of the defendant.” Session said he was allowing the woman to remain on the jury be cause she said she could make a fair decision on the basis of the testi mony. Nava was replaced by Will Grover, one of three alternate jurors chosen. Government attorneys tried to prove during the trial, which began Feb. 5, Chagra was part of a conspir acy that included her husband, Jimmy Chagra, a Florida drug dealer and Las Vegas gambler, and her brother-in-law, Joe Chagra, a former El Paso lawyer. Joe Chagra testified the plot was hatched because Jimmy Chagra was scheduled to be tried on narcotics trafficking charges by Wood, who was known as “Maximum John” be cause of the stiff sentences he handed out to drug dealers. Joe Chagra said Mrs. Chagra had no part in her husband’s decision to have Wood killed. Mrs. Chagra testified she had no part in the conspiracy although she later learned she had delivered a $250,000 payoff to a Las Vegas hotel for Charles Harrelson, who is serv ing a life sentence for killing Wood. She said she thought she was pay ing some of her husband’s gambling debts and did not know the money was for Harrelson until months later when Joe Chagra told her. tiite seeking Wall Street support for Texas Associated Press ASHINGTON — After de- n § He budget cuts he has pro- Jo cope with diminishing oil nues, Texas Gov. Mark White Tuesday he was heading for a Tof Wall Street meetings to bol- mvestor confidence in the state, hfte was in Washington for the on;d Governors’ Association er meeting, where he was told President Reagan will meet at e later date with oil-producing s to talk about the problem of ping oil prices. rite was due to return to the tonight after an overnight trip u- to New York to talk to bond raters and investment analysts. The meetings, he said, are “just to let them ask me questions and ex plain what’s going on in Texas.” “A lot of people equate Texas and the oil industry,” White said. “We’re obviously very dependent on the oil industry, but not nearly so much so as some of the other states.” The state is dependent on oil and gas severance taxes for about 13 per cent of its revenues, White said. He has proposed a 13 percent re duction in spending by state agen cies to meet a $ 1.3 billion deficit pro jected by Comptroller Bob Bullock. In a confidential memorandum that became public Tuesday, Bul lock’s office said White’s budget plan would not work and cuts of 31 per cent would be needed, but White said he “disagreed” with the comp troller. “There’s always a Chicken Little out there who says that something can’t be done,” White said. At the Tuesday session of the gov ernors, White and the others heard House Ways and Means Chairman Dan Rostenkowski, D-Ill., tell them the Reagan administration is not helping state budget writers by pro posing a fiscal 1987 budget that won’t be approved by Congress. Last week, White wrote Reagan asking for an oil import fee to stabi lize oil prices. Press secretary Ann Arnold said a letter to Reagan supporting action on the oil crisis was being signed Tuesday by governors from non producing states. Monday, House Majority Leader Jim Wright, D-Fort Worth, said there was very little chance that an oil import fee would be approved because Reagan considers it a tax on consumer goods and has steadfastly refused to propose or endorse such measures. 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