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Thursday
SOCIETY OF BLACK ENGINEERS; will hear
- Booth of the student counseling service at 7:50
)7 Rudder- For information call Mark, 260-2081.
[A PSI: will hear a discussion from Seidman Sc
td Kenneth Leventhal on the differences be-
‘Big 8” and other public accounting firms at
in the Hilton. For more information cau Tammy,
iE AMERICAN STUDENT ASSOCIATION;
it 8:50 pan. in 401 Rudder. For more informa-
fai, 846-829 L
ICING CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. in 267 East
11 meet at 8:30 p.m, in 504 Rudder. For more in-
cali Dave, 696*8953.
'ARIABLE; will show the Disney version of “Ro-
at 7:30 p.m. and 9:45 p.m. in Rudder Theater.
(AFTER OF THE AMERICAN VETERI-
AL ASSOCIATION: today is the last day to
>to contest entries on the first floor of the MSC.
YOUTH FUN DAY; will have an adviser meet-
>,m. in 601 Rudder. For more information call
•0103.
ERNATIONAL PROGRAMS COMMITTEE: will
at 8:50 p.m. in 604A-B Rudder. For more informa
tion call 845-1515.
tTA PROCESSING MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION:
Jim Hyndman, a recruiter lor Chaplin, will give a seminar
on resume writing and interviewing at 7 p.m. in 102
Blocker.
interviewing at 7 p.m. m
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Fontenot trial
Jury acquits ex-principal
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Associated Press
LIVINGSTON — A state district
court jury Wednesday acquitted a
former junior high school principal
of charges he killed a football coach
out of jealousy over his relationship
with a school secretary.
Hurley Fontenot, 48, former
principal of Hull-Daisetta Woodson
Junior High School, had been
charged with murder in the April 12
shooting of Billy Mac Fleming, 36,
who coached and taught math and
science at the school.
The 10-woman, two-man jury de
liberated for a total of 12.5 hours
over two days.
The standing room-only crowd at
the Polk County Courthouse
cheered when the verdict was read.
Fontenot hugged his attorney Dick
DeGuerin and then his wife and
daughter.
“This has been like a Barnum &
Bailey Circus,” Fontenot had said
while awaiting the verdict. “When
it’s all over, I think I’m going to go
take a long nap.”
The jury earlier in the day had
asked to rehear testimony concern
ing a hotel receipt and several anon-
ymbus letters sent to Fleming, which
were “very derogatory” of his
relationship with Laura Nugent, 36,
the school secretary, according to
prosecutors.
Before the verdict was reached
Polk County District Attorney Peter
Speers had said,“If they can be con
vinced that he wrote those letters,
then they’ll be convinced that he
killed Bill Fleming.
About 100 people, many who at
tended the six-week trial and lis
tened to testimony from 86 wit
nesses, also waited in the courtroom.
Some of the spectators, who had
pushed and shoved to get a seat,
wore buttons proclaiming, “I Sur
vived The Courtroom Stampede.”
Defense attorneys claimed Liberty
County investigators were trying to
frame Fontenot for a murder he did
not commit, saying they discarded or
ignored evidence that pointed to
other suspects.
Prosecutors, however, insisted
Fontenot, who once dated Nugent,
was jealous of Fleming because he
planned to marry her.
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Suit filed to block soft-drink mergers
Associated Press
CHICAGO — Plans to combine
the nation’s top four soft-drink pro
ducers into two companies control
ling more than 80 percent of the
market are being challenged in fed
eral court.
The class-action lawsuit, Filed by
three individuals on behalf of them
selves and other soda-pop consum
ers, seeks an injunction to keep
Coca-Cola Co. from buying Dr. Pep
per Co., and to prevent Pepsico Inc.
from acquiring Seven-Up Co.
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District
Court on Tuesday, contends the ac
quisitions would violate antitrust
laws by reducing competition, which
could result in soft-drink price in
creases.
Coca-Cola, the nation’s largest
soft-drink company, would control
about 46 percent of the domestic
soft-drink market under its plan to
buy Dr. Pepper for $470 million.
Dallas-based Dr. Pepper, owned
by Forstmann Little and Co., cur
rently is the fourth largest producer.
Pepsico, which said a month ago it
intends to buy Seven-Up for $380
million, would have 35 percent of
the $30 billion-a-year soft-drink
market under the plan.
Pepsico is the nation’s second-
largest soft-drink producer.
Seven-Up, owned by Phillip Mor
ris Inc., is the third largest.
Pepsico spokesman Jim Griffith
said, “The suit is totally without
merit and will have no impact on the
FTC (Federal Trade Commission)
review process.”
Jury deliberations begin in Chagra’s retrial
Associated Press
AUSTIN —Jurors began deliber
ations Wednesday in the retrial of
Elizabeth Chagra, charged with plot
ting to kill the federal judge scned-
uled to preside over the drug racke
teering trial of her husband.
Chagra, 32, is charged with mur
der conspiracy, accused of deliv
ering a $250,000 payoff for the 1979
assassination of U.S. District Judge
John H. Wood Jr. She was convicted
in 1982, but an appeals court over
turned the conviction because of im
proper jury instructions.
Wednesday, the jury was sent
home after several hours without
reaching a verdict. Deliberations
were to resume Thursday morning.
At the time of Wood’s death, he
was scheduled to hear a case involv
ing Jamiel “Jimmy” Chagra, who was
accused of making up to $10 million
a year smuggling boatloads of mari
juana into Florida.
Mrs. Chagra, the principal de
fense witness in her trial, which be
gan Feb. 5, claimed she knew noth
ing about plans by her husband and
his brother, Joe, to kill Wood.
The government claimed through
witnesses and seven reels of wiretap
tape made by the FBI at the federal
prison in Leavenworth, Kan. —
where Jimmy Chagra was incarcer
ated for drug convictions — that she
was part of the conspiracy.
Joe Chagra, who pleaded guilty to
murder conspiracy in the assassina
tion plot in a bargain with the gov
ernment, said Mrs. Chagra had no
part in the scheme.
ATTENTION: FORMER
PEACE CORPS
VOLUNTEERS
PEACE CORPS IS NOW CELEBRATING
ITS 25TH ANNIVERSARY.
For information on how you can be in
volved in 25th anniversary activities
CALL THE DALLAS PEACE CORPS RECRUITING
OFFICE TOLL FREE:
1 (800) 442-7294
or contact Jerry Namken at 845-4722, Room 103 B, Ag
Bldg.
LAST DAY!
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ABOUT YouRSelF
Commons
10 a.m. to 8 p.m
Gilfe BlPoD
aggie blood drive
DATES:
February 24, 25,26, 27
WHERE AND WHEN:
Fish Pond
a.m. to 6 p.m.
MSC Fountain
u a - r n. to 6 p.m.
Pavilion
10 a.m. to 3:15 p.m.
Another service of: Alpha Phi
and Student Co me§a ' ° mega ^ A ' P
vernment Association.
YOU CAN DO IT EVERY 56 DAYS!
THE
BLOOD CENTER
at Wadley