William Ross

Holden did not participate in the vote on the Rodney King civil lawsuit because he was afraid for his life. Well I take it that he will not participate in any of the issues confronting the City Council. WILLIAM V. ROSS, Los Angeles

Prosecutors today dropped charges against a millionaire real estate broker and an Israeli woman accused in a fatal mail bombing until a fugitive extremist suspected of making the bomb can be extradited from Israel. Attorneys for William Ross and Rochelle Ida Manning predicted that neither will be charged again. A federal court jury in Los Angeles deadlocked last week over a verdict, prompting a judge to declare a mistrial. U.S.

An Israeli court Friday ordered an American couple extradited to the United States to face charges in the letter-bomb killing of a Southern California woman. Robert Manning, 39, and his wife Rochelle, 51, who live in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arba, were jailed in March, seven months after the U.S. Justice Department requested their extradition.

Multimillionaire Hollywood-area real estate dealer William Ross was denied bail for the third time Wednesday on charges that he arranged a fatal 1980 mail bombing directed at a business foe. Ross was indicted in the case along with two one-time Jewish Defense League associates, Rochelle and Robert Manning, whom federal authorities have named as suspects in the 1985 fatal bombing of Arab rights activist Alex Odeh of Santa Ana.

An ex-Hawthorne real estate agent convicted of masterminding a July 17, 1980, mail bombing that killed a secretary at a Manhattan Beach computer firm was sentenced to life in prison Monday. William Ross, 58, will be eligible for parole in 10 years under the sentence handed down by U.S. District Judge Dickran Tevrizian. On March 14, a federal jury found Ross guilty of ordering the explosive device mailed to the offices of ProWest Computer.

Reversed by a federal appeals court, a Los Angeles judge Wednesday reluctantly agreed to set bail for a woman who is accused of involvement in the 1980 bombing death of a Manhattan Beach secretary. U.S. District Judge Dickran Tevrizian set bail at $500,000 for Rochelle Ida Manning, 48, who has dual U.S.-Israeli citizenship and has been in jail since June when she was arrested upon her arrival at Los Angeles International Airport.