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- <text id=89TT3218>
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- Dec. 11, 1989: Indicted:Billie Sol Estes
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Dec. 11, 1989 Building A New World
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 89
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- <p> INDICTED. Billie Sol Estes, 64, a close associate of former
- President Lyndon Johnson's; in Brady, Texas; on charges of
- engaging in organized criminal activity. He and five others
- allegedly stole trade secrets from a rival manufacturer of
- container-cargo trailers. When Estes was released in 1983 after
- violating his parole from a 1963 swindling conviction, he
- declared, "I'm just one drink away from being a drunk and one
- deal away from being back in prison."
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- </body></article>
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