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Wednesday, April 6, 1988/The Battalion/Page 7 x-police chief says e was hired for killing ^ BROWNSVILLE (AP) — A for- U ■ police chief admitted Tuesday > Hne participated in a bungled . ^^■act murder and said lie was " |red through an advertisement in h avf ’dldier of Fortune magazine by a ex i nan accused of advertising as a Dtherpju,, j or Hire” in the same periodi- ll11 ' P'Bidiael Wayne Jackson, former Be chief in Tatum, Texas, testi- in '" ied in the trial of Richard Michael /' mage, 39, who is accused of mas- ■ wl ''tending a botched murder-for- 1 ^ a ' f Mscheme. v firti saici j ne i Savage in At- inta after Savage answered an ad- labsiif ertisement the former police chief e ^ ‘ n Soldier of Fortune, offer- bodyguard and surveillance = carpt i 0r i( use Shortly after they met, Jackson ‘did Savage brought up the idea of lav on« blowing up someone's car with hand grenades, after a previous attempt had failed. “He wanted me to get underneath the car and rewire the hand gre nades so that they would detonate as soon as somebody started the igni tion,” Jackson said, adding he re fused to do so but agreed to stand watch while someone else hooked up the bombs. Savage was indicted with Four other people in October 1986. The indictment states that in re sponse to Savage’s advertisement, a woman named Alice V. Brado hired him to kill Colorado businessman Dana Free, a man she said bilked her out of her $300,000 life savings. Savage subsequently hired other people and supplied them with guns and hand grenades to carry out the killing, according to the indictment. Brado pleaded guilty to paying Savage $20,000 to arrange Free’s death. She later died in prison. The trial was moved from Hous ton, due to publicity from an unre lated civil suit in which a jury there last month found the Boulder, Col.—based magazine negligent and awarded $9.4 million to the family of a woman killed in a contract alleg edly arranged through a Soldier of Fortune ad. Jackson said he received a total of $2,000 from Savage for his involve ment in the contract on Free. Rer cords at the Tatum Police Depart ment show Jackson was chief in the northeast Texas town for four weeks in 1978. He is serving time in federal prison in Texarkana following state and federal convictions for crimes committed in Arkansas and Georgia. ispanic leaders meet to set qenda for political platforms ie inFW WASHINGTON (AP) — His- W yer»®c leaders from across the coun- idaWBathered Tuesday to forge a na- ted« agenda embracing Mexican- ihe Jineiirans from South Texas colo be /Its to Los Angeles barrios and n g jj ‘uerto Ricans in New York ten- iments to Cubans in Miami’s Little Havana. “We’ve got a good cross-represen- Eon of Hispanics from across the Jnited States. It dispels the myth jfcljliat Hispanics are not unified,” said yll'ablo Sedillo, chairman of the Na- jbnal Hispanic Leadership Confer- nce. “Cubans, Puerto Ricans, Mexican- ucaWjmericans, Central and South mploffijericans are participating, Demo- jpand Republicans, conservatives detfe nd liberals. We’re proving we can Thosebme together and we are going to lyinJ lake a difference,” Sedillo said, bad More than 300 delegates at the onference, which meets during r®Tesidential election years, will vote i bl, Wednesday on a sweeping agenda l ua lat'ks leaders hope to have in- rtalcH to cd ji eluded in the Democratic and Re publican party platforms. “The issues that are going to be recognized and come out of this con ference will speak very clearly and concretely as to what a presidential candidate to should be doing to rep resent the needs of Hispanics — ed ucation, employment, housing, civil rights, health,” Sedillo, of Santa Fe, N.M., said. Former New Mexico Gov. Toney Anaya said, “We are arriving at a consensus statement that will be very strong. It supports all the Hispanics — regardless of their country of ori gin.” More than 3.5 million Hispanics are expected to vote in November’s general election, according to the NHLC, and its leaders say that’s more than enough to to shape the outcome and ensure their needs get top billing in the party platforms. In its draft agenda, the NHLC recommends education reforms to stem the high school dropout rate — only 50.9 percent of Hispanics com- lete high school compared with 7 percent of the general popula tion; appointment of a Hispanic to the U.S. Supreme Court; massive government spending on employ ment and training; better opportu nities for Hispanics to fill upper- echelon positions in education, gov ernment and business; and en hanced access to health care and af fordable housing. The draft also seeks a one-year extension for undocumented aliens to apply for amnesty and for the president to immediately suspend the deportation of Salvadoran and Nicaraguan nationals from the United States. “If I had to single out any one thing that would be it — to keep our youth in school,” said A1 Zapanta of Dallas, director of government af fairs for ARCO Oil and Gas Co. “We have to educate them so they can take their rightful position in so ciety,” he added. “We keep filling the bottom rung, but they’re not moving up.” iff ogf^ 5J A Special Deal for Students Only Microwave with 1 yr. lease $100 off* 1st rent/9 mo. lease Sounds too good to be true? Well, if s not. 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