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Star-studded Derby Picking a jockey FEATURES, SECTION SPORTS, SECTION 14.... i. 1 LATE KENTUCKY EDITION, 74 PAGES, COPYRIGHT 1988, THE COURIER-JOURNAL, LOUISVILLE, A GANNETT NEWSPAPER WEDNESDAY MAY 4, 1988. 35 CENTS toward nomination, Steaming Dukakis abs Ohio, Indiana gr Communication failures let convicted dentist keep practicing By GIDEON GIL and DEBORAH YETTER Staff Writers Eight months after he was convicted of sexually abusing five patients in Memphis and lost his Tennessee dental license, Dr. Gilbert Franklin opened a dentist's office in Louisville's West End.

And he was able to participate in Kentucky's 9 I WW ana and District of Columbia contests without real opposition. Dukakis built his victory in Ohio using the same formula that gave him his triumph in the Pennsylvania primary last week: He bested Jackson among white voters by a margin of about 5 to 1. Jackson, once again, won almost all the black vote, but it was not nearly enough to give him victory. The results were much the same in Indiana, where a CBS News exit poll of 1,375 voters found Dukakis defeating Jackson by a margin of 8 to 1 among whites. Jackson's showing among Indiana's whites was his worst since the Southern primaries.

In Ohio, with 26 percent of the votes counted, Dukakis had 219,769 votes, or 65 percent, to Jackson's 78,857, or 23.3 percent On the Republican side, Bush had 176,695 votes, or 79.7 percent, with Kansas Sen. Bob Dole and former tele-See STEAMING PAGE 8, col. 1, this section By EJ. DIONNE Jr. New York Times News Service CLEVELAND Massachusetts Gov.

Michael Dukakis, building up steam in the homestretch of the Democratic presidential race, battered Jesse Jackson in both the Ohio and Indiana primaries last nigffu Dukakis whipped his last remaining rival by a 3-to-l margin in Indiana, and partial returns in Ohio indicated that he would have a 2-to-l margin there. Jackson salvaged the District of Columbia with a commanding win, but only 16 delegates were at stake there, compared with 159 in Ohio and 79 in Indiana. Since the Southern contests on March 8, Jackson has lost every primary except Puerto Rico's, although he won a major victory in the Michigan caucuses. Vice President George Bush, who has already clinched the Republican nomination, captured the Ohio, Indi Democratic front-runner Michael Dukakis carried Ohio and Indiana by big margins as Jesse Jackson scored in the District of Columbia. 1 I 1: -v Medicaid program, even though he had been suspended by the Tennessee Medicaid program for fraudulent billing practices.

He has since been indicted on Medicaid-fraud charges in Kentucky. Franklin's case illuminates gaps in communications among state and federal agencies that allow a dentist who gets into trou i St Vice President George Bush cruises to victory, his eyes firmly on the fall campaign. AP PHOTOS Franklin Israel meets no challenge in Lebanon oSSstsC' All ill lm xt'Ai 4 ble in one state to set up shop undetected in another. Franklin obtained dental licenses in Kentucky, Arkansas and Virginia in 1984, after he first got into trouble in Tennessee. He had been suspended from that state's Medicaid program in November 1983 after the Bureau of Medicaid found that Franklin billed the program for services he did not provide.

See COMMUNICATION Back page, col. 4, this section Strikers push Walesa back to center stage By NESHA STARCEVIC Associated Press GDANSK, Poland More than 7,000 strikers at the Lenin shipyard where Solidarity was born eight years ago demanded yesterday that the outlawed union federation be made legal again. The government said that demand was "not negotiable." The founder of Solidarity, Lech Walesa, spoke to the strikers several times yesterday and was hailed as their leader although he said he won't lead their strike. "I am not your leader. I'm tired," said Walesa, 44, who vaulted a shipyard fence in 1980 and took charge of a labor revolt that brought down a government "You need a new Walesa, many more new Walesas.

I can see a few Nobels, a few doctorates and a few Walesas here. "I've done what I had to do. But I don't want a past I only want bread, calm and peace for us all. I want to help Poland enter a road of reforms. "You declared this strike," he pointed out, then added: "I'm with you, and I'll always be with you.

I can advise you. I have some experience. If we do not have perestroika, If we do not have peaceful reform, with the people and with compromise, then we will be threatened with a revolution, and a bloody one," he de-See SHIPYARD STRIKERS PAGE 8, col. 1, this section 1 3 y. 1 By SHIBLI ABI-ASSI Associated Press AIN ATA, Lebanon Israeli tanks and troops pushed unchecked through Arab villages and towns to within four miles of Syrian positions yesterday In Israel's largest incursion into Lebanon in two years.

The tanks rolled north of Israel's self-proclaimed security zone, backing up hundreds of heavily armed troops who combed southern Lebanon's rugged foothills for Palestinian guerrillas. Lebanese police said the 16,000 Syrian forces In the Bekaa Valley went on "maximum alert" as Israeli fighters neared. Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir said Israeli forces would not remain in the area long or provoke the Syrians. "There's totally no danger of entanglement in Lebanon," he said. Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, Shamir's rival in the coalition government, said the operation was within "the routine framework of preventing infiltrations into Israel." Col.

Ranaan Gissin, deputy army spokesman, said the Syrians understood the operation was not a threat to them. "Our intentions are limited," he said on army radio. "We are not out there to go to war with Syria but simply to control the security of our northern border settlements." The operation was part of a push into the southeastern Arkoub region that began Monday evening, an incursion the army said was aimed at smashing Palestinian guerrilla groups responsible for recent raids into northern Israel. Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin See ISRAELIS Back page, col. 1, this section 4 'Il 1 I STAFF PHOTO BY TODD BUCHANAN A ROSE FINISH: Vickie Newton, of Dagwood's restaurant, raced past the crowd near the Jefferson County Courthouse yesterday during the Run for the Rose, a Kentucky Derby Festival event Waiters and waitresses carrying trays with six glasses of wine run in separate heats to achieve the fastest time while spilling the least wine.

Story, Page A 9. 'Goosing' settlement costs company $350,000 $530,000 for pain and suffering, saying he thought the jury verdict was "out of line" with the evidence. He let the remainder of the verdict stand. Mudd said he had not been convinced that the broken metal hip rod had caused the kind of permanent pain and lifestyle changes Sigler claimed. The judge ordered a new trial to determine how much Sigler should receive for physical suffering.

Last week, however, while Mudd was out of See 'GOOSING Back page, col. 1, this section By CARY B. WILLIS Staff Writer A Jefferson County auto dealership has paid $350,000 to a former employee who claimed his co-workers harassed him by "goosing" him, according to the employee's lawyer. The sum is a settlement of all claims in Lowell Sigler's lawsuit against Town Country Ford, said the lawyer, Michael McMahon. Sigler, 52, of Cicero, sued Town Country in 1985, claiming his work had suffered, his emotions were shattered and, one day, a prosthesis in his left leg was broken all as a result of continual jabs by his coworkers.

Sigler, who began work in May 1983, said the employees' harassment and the management's tolerance of it forced him to quit by the following February. A Jefferson Circuit Court jury decided during a trial last July that Sigler had suffered damages totaling $795,000 with $530,000 awarded for physical pain and suffering because of the broken prosthesis and $265,000 for "severe emotional distress for extreme and outrageous conduct." However, Judge Jack Mudd threw out the Death March survivors remember horrors of the trek I I LEBANON I LEBANON BEKAA AREA VALLEY ENLARGED GortrdtadbySyrli fyy SYRIA Yohmor isRAELjjp I HELICOPTER-BORNE I I TROOP LANDING AIN Khalwant Mount HebbariyeJ I Hermon Marjayoun KfarChouba? YRIA JrTANKSWEEPl ISRAEL surprise of Japanese bombing attacks, the siege of Bataan and Corregidor despite the Americans' heroic and bloody defense, the dissipating tropical diseases, and the long and agonizing trek of American prisoners up the Bataan peninsula. Many survivors say they weren't sufficiently equipped or supplied to fight the war. Enlisted men were ordered on half-rations and their uniforms and weapons were leftovers from World War I. "The bullets I had wouldn't fit in my gun, and most of the mortar we had wouldn't fire," said Dr.

Paul Ashton, 77, a Santa Bar bara, physician who was head surgeon at a Bataan military hospital. To hear the veterans tell of their ordeal Is to rekindle the pain and tragedy of World War n. Harold Kurvers, 69, a retired postal employee from St. Paul, served in a tank battalion on Bataan. He fought until surrender in April of 1942, and then walked with thousands of other captured American soldiers up the peninsula from Mariveles to a See BATAAN Back page, col.

1, this section By LAWRENCE MUHAMMAD Staff Writer For more than 40 years Frank Bigelow has walked with a limp. A big, swarthy, 66-year-old U. S. Navy veteran, Bigelow was captured during the Japanese invasion of the Philippines in World War II and slaved for nearly two years in a coal mine on Fukuoka Island where a boulder fell and broke his leg. "The Japanese wouldn't give me any plaster of Paris or medicine at all, gangrene set in, and doctors had to cut my leg off," he said.

Now a trucker living in Pensacola, Bigelow wears an artificial leg. He's a member of the American Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor, a group that has been in Louisville since last week for its 43rd annual convention. The convention will end today with an 11 a.m. memorial service in honor of the Americans who died in the conflict The service is open to the public. Though four decades have passed since Bigelow and his compatriots breathed the crisp salt air of wartime Manila Bay, it was a time they will never forget Numerous military volumes record the STAFF MAP BY STEVE DURBIN INSIDE Business.

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