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DALLAS (AP) — A federal jury
late Tuesday found former
Western Savings Association
owner Jarrett Woods guilty of
bank fraud in the use of thrift
funds to pay gambling debts and
assist a Houston developer.
Woods, 48, faces up to 175
years in prison and $8.2 million in
fines when he is sentenced by U.S.
District Judge Robert Maloney on
June 18.
Jurors deliberated for three
days before reaching the verdict.
"We're gratified by the jury's
verdict," said prosecutor Susan
Greenberg.
Woods' attorney, Shirley
Baccus-Lobel, could not be
reached for comment.
Woods is one of the last major
thrift figures in North Texas to be
tried for wrongdoing in
connection with the collapse of a
savings and loan. Western s
failure in 1986 is estimated to have
cost taxpayers $1.7 billion.
In December, prosecutors
brought a second case against
Woods, seven charges of
misapplication of funds and
making false statements to
regulators, for a 1985 real estate
transaction designed to inflate the
thrift's net worth. His attorney
tried unsuccessfully to have the
cases consolidated.
In the just-finished trial.
Woods was accused of illegally
taking $18 million from Western
in four separate transactions in
1984,1985 and 1986.
Two of the transactions
involved complex loan schemes,
including use of Western profits,
to help Houston developer James
Reagin pay delinquent loans at
Western and other thrifts.
The other transactions were to
pay off debts Woods accrued
playing a gambling game called
"Stack 'Em," in which
participants bet whether the next
quarter in a stack will have heads
or tails facing up.
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won $5 million in a "Stack’! a e
game with Woods. Prosecut I Katii
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Western to put a down payn 1
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Residents unite to rescue community
AUSTIN (AP) - When H.V. and Mary
Williams moved to the Truman Heights neigh
borhood in East Austin 33 years ago, it was a
quiet rural community.
Their home was only the second to be built
on Samuel Huston Avenue. But more people
followed, and schools and churches sprang up.
The community thrived with a vibrant mixture
of middle- and working-class couples.
Some who moved here in the 1950s and
1960s have died of old age while others are re
tired now. And scared.
Crack cocaine, which police say made its
debut in Austin about three years ago,
changed the face of this neighborhood. And
residents have been forced to change with it.
They mobilized a "Save Our Neighborhood"
association, met monthly with police, even
went to court to obtain injunctions against the
owners of two alleged crack houses.
But despite innovative methods of fighting
drug activity, residents fear the war is being
lost.
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drugs. This was a nice community, and we felt
real good about it," said Mary Williams, a re
tired Austin schoolteacher.
But as the community aged, its face began
to change. Homes once occupied by homeown
ers are now rented out by absentee landlords.
Police sirens pierce the roar of planes over
head.
Down the hill from Williams' home, crowds
gather near the corner of Samuel Huston Av
enue and Webberville Road and the corner of
Samuel Huston and Bunche Road. Cars stop in
the middle of the street and people approach
them, while other traffic waits. Money changes
hands and the drivers move on.
Police and residents agree the transactions
likely are drug deals.
The Samuel Huston and Webberville inter
section is one of 31 places noted on a list of ma
jor street-level drug markets made public by
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plaining a 72-person street-level drugts
force being formed.
Residents hope the task force will help.
"Last night, it was terrible. We alwaysc
911 at night. I was coming home last nightj | f or m
they just flag you down, trying to selldra >
It's not a good feeling," Mary Williamssi i thi=
one night last week as the crowds onceae; nr oc.o
began to gather. ^ Gc
She tells a story of the man who got am g anc j
It's the story of how "Save Our Neighk
hood" was bom about one year ago. j x a ^
"The officers were chasing a car right .
there in front," Mrs. Williams said, pointc mee
out her front room window. "The susp ~ c
jumped out of the car and ran behintH '■
neighbor's house. ... It was exciting. It ws
white car. A nice late-model car. It stopf*
right in the middle of the street. The susps 0LYP
got out and left the car. The officer gotouti been
ran too. It was scary to look at."
Senator's contributions live,
thrive despite untimely death
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Republicans reflect on achievements of Texan John Tower
WASHINGTON (AP) - A
quarter of a century ago, a young
Republican senator from Texas
named John Tower was swept up
in a Senate ethics battle over a
Yankee Democrat.
Sen. Thomas Dodd of Con
necticut stood accused of misus
ing campaign funds and faced cer
tain censure by his colleagues.
Tower, however, supported him.
On the eve of the showdown
vote, one of the old Senate lions
approached Tower. "Son," he
said, "what you're doing is ad
mirable. It's good that you realize
we're a closely knit club."
"But," he reminded him, "we
shoot the wounded."
Tower nonetheless cast a dis
senting vote the next day when
the Senate condemned Dodd by a
vote of 92-5.
Some 22 years later, the Senate
shot down Tower himself.
Wounded by rumors of strong
drink and a weakness for women,
he was rejected by three votes as
President Bush's Secretary of De
fense.
"He got a taste of that early les
son," says former U.S. House
Speaker Jim Wright, a Texas
Democrat who likewise was ban
ished by his colleagues. "They do
indeed shoot the wounded.
"But I think he got a bum rap."
Wright's recollections preceded
the anniversary of Tower's death
April 5, 1991. Tower, 65, and a
daughter, Marian, 35, were among
23 killed when a commuter plane
crashed in Georgia.
Tower was en route to a party
promoting his book, "Conse
quences," a ferociously defensive
account of the Senate confirmation
brawl.
Some sug
gest the sud
denness of his
death, coming
as it did on the
heels of the
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unique contri
butions to his
party, state
and his country
As a member and later chair
man of the Senate Armed Services
Committee, Tower was the archi
tect of the American military
buildup that Ronald Reagan used
to end the Cold War with the So
viet Union.
Sen. Minority Leader Robert
Dole of Kansas insists the U.S. vic
tory in the Persian Gulf could also
be traced to Tower's stewardship
of the nation's defense.
The war showcased the
weaponry of Tower's arsenal.
In times of national crisis. Pres
ident Reagan twice turned to
Tower. First as a strategic arms
negotiator and later as chairman
of the Special Review Board on
the Iran-contra scandal.
Associates say Tower hired the
best and brightest aides, including
women and minorities, and most
are sprinkled now through all lev
els and branches of government.
"Washington is John Tower's
town," former Texas Congress
man Tom Loeffler, himself a Tow
er alumnus, said when his mentor
left the Senate in 1985.
At the time, another former
aide. Republican Cyndi Krier of
San Antonio, was the only woman
in the Texas Senate.
Tower was the first Republican
to win a statewide Texas race
since reconstruction, snatching
Lyndon Johnson's old senate seat
in a 1961 special election.
Short and stiff with slicked-
back hair, tailored suits, starched
shirts and French cuffs. Tower
seemed the least likely person to
lead Texas Republicans out of the
political wilderness.
But he did.
Tower helped mold the GOP
into a competitive force from the
courthouse to the statehouse, and
even the White House .
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CHARLOTTE, N.C (AP)-
The federal agencies thatnw
age coastal fish and wildlife^
sources need the power tovek
potentially destructive develof
ments, a National Marine Fist
eries Service biologist said Mot
day.
Without that veto, NMFSat
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Sen*
only can make recommendation
to other agencies that make dec
sions about development "
James R. Chambers, acting
tor of NMFS's Office of Hal*
Protection. He conceded in al
interview such a veto power
never be given to a wildlife
source agency.
Those decisions have led
mass destruction of coastal™
tat and coastal resources, Char
hers told the North Amer*
Wildlife and Natural Resource
Conference. The pressure
more development along men
tion's coasts is increasing, hesa't
"By the year 2010, an estimate-
54 percent of the U.S. P°P U fj,
will live within 50 miles of
coast," he said.
This trend, and its threa s'
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