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Florida 6B TODAY, Thursday, January Jl, 1W Reports From TODAY Staff Writers, Bureaus and Wire Services i3g The State Black Tuna Jury Has Own Clinic TODAY wire tarvtan MIAMI A Miami doctor set up an impromptu clinic in an unused federal jury room Wednesday and examined the Judge and several jurors in the month old Black Tuna drug smuggling trial after they complained of headaches colds and possible influenza. The jury had barely restarted deliberations Wednesday when the foreman sent U.S. District Judge James Lawrence King a note that several of the six men and six women had colds. Deliberations had to be started again after an alternate was seated Tuesday to replace 77 year old Isidore Zalc, who had a mild heart attack. By the time the Jury got back to work Wednesday, Dr.

Irwin Potash and his nurse had examined King and 10 of the jurors. Exile Reverses Stand MIAMI In a dramatic reversal of his previously stated position, the Rev. Manuel Esptnosa called Cuban President Fidel Castro an "unscrupulous beast'' Wednesday and declared "open war" against Castro's government and Communism. Espinosa, who had led the controversial m6ve ment to normalize relations with Cuba, said his public reversal was not a change in his personal beliefs, but the unveiling of his real position. He said his outspoken support for the normalization of relations and his friendship with the Cuban government had been a facade to achieve the release of political prisoners on the Caribbean island.

Espinosa said he is now able to reveal his position because his fight for the release of political prisoners is over. DNR Wants Legislation TALLAHASSEE The Department of Natural Resources will ask the Cabinet next week to endorse a 11 part legislative package that includes a ban on fish traps and strict rules for reclaiming phosphate mined land. link legislative airector I nomas uianes un Derelicts Get Bum's Rush in Downtown Miami! i veiled the program Wednesday before the Cabinet aides in advance of next week's Cabinet meeting. The package, which contains some bills that have been proposed and failed in past sessions, will go to lawmakers in April. The fish traps ban was opxipsed by sports fisher fpen who said it doesn't go far enough and commercial fishermen, who argued a ban would put SO percent of the fishermen who now rely on fish traps out of business.

Prince Charles To Visit LONDON Prince Charles will make a three day, private trip to Florida in April following an official March 30 April 3 visit to Canada, Buckingham Palace announced Wednesday. The official announcement said that while in Florida, the 31 year old heir to the British throne, a skilled polo player, will participate In an International polo tournament. Palace officials refused to name Charles' host or say where in Florida the prince was going. Cuba Releases Exiles MIAMI Two Cuban bom Miami residents arrested while visiting their homeland Jan. 20 are to be expelled from Cuba, the company that arranged the visits says.

American Airways Charters, which arranges tours of Cuba for Cuban exiles through Havanatur, said Jesus Lliteras and German Faustino Hernandez were to be flown to Miami Wednesday. The Cuban government said Tuesday it was considering expelling the two, whom it had charged with taking drugs into Cuba and illegally exchanging dollars. Black Market Probed LAKELAND Railroad cars of phosphate worth millions of dollars have apparently been illegally diverted to black market salvage sales over at least the past seven years, according to a newspaper report. "The Lakeland Ledger said prosecutors are Investigating a black market phosphate operation that dealt some $750,000 in chemical shipments each year. Salvage sales apparently have gone undetected since at least 1073, the newspaper said.

State Attorney Quilllam Yancey would not comment or confirm the investigation on Wednesday, but said he might have a statement late this week. Insurance Firms Hedge TALLAHASSEE Insurance executives and local leaders from around the state said Wednesday they want more specifics before they promise millions of dollars to fund a Florida insurance exchange similar to Lloyds of London. Ina meeting with state Insurance Commissioner Bill Gunter, the officials said current plans for a Lloyds of London type operation in Florida are top sketchy to win their financial commitments. Gunter wants to establish in Florida an Insurance exchange similar to Lloyds, that would sell coverage to high risk operations such as an oil derrick In the North Sea. A consulting firm has recommended Jacksonville or Miami as possible sites.

They Said It Commenting on a plan to create a Lloyds of London type insurance exchange in Florida, insurance pan and former Gov. Fartis Bryant wants more information first and said Wednesday in Tallahassee: "A development of this kind could in the long run be a profitable things But I couldn't rec ommend my company invest In this nebulous idea atjthispomr." MIAMI (AP) "Next to, parking, they are our major problem," a Miami businessman said as police carried out an informal campaign to move hundreds of derelicts and drifters out of city streets and parks. Emelio Calleja, executive director of the Downtown Miami Business Association, claimed as many as 4,000 drifters from the North crowd to Miami In winter. Calleja said they scare off the real tourists. $500,000 Bond Set I rf Tax Case MIAMI (AP) A 40 year old Miami beauty shop owner deposited more than $8 million in Spanish banks between 1975 and 1978, then moved it to numbered bank accounts elsewhere in Europe, a federal agent testified Wednesday.

Jose Medardo Alvero Cruz was released on $500,000 bond Wednesday after pleading Innocent to tax evasion charges. U.S. Attorney Jack V. Eskenazi said Alvero owed nearly $4 million in taxes for those years. U.S.

Magistrate Herbert Shapiro ordered Alvero to tum over his passport after his lawyer said the Cuban bom alien was about to leave for Europe when he learned of the Indictment and surrendered to federal authorities. "In the Cuban community, Alvero is known as 'El which means the godfather," said Drug Enforcement Administration Agent Avelino Fernandez. Alvero was arrested on cocaine conspiracy charges in 1978, but the government dropped the case "because the confidential Informant failed to respond to a subpoena In fear of his life," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Pat Sullivan. Alvero told the magistrate he is a permanent resident of Miami and had been imprisoned for two years in Cuba after his capture in the Bay of Pigs invasion.

"I wouldn't mind If they spent the winter somewhere else," added Roy Kenzie, ex ecutive director of the Downtown Development Authority. He said winter transients tarnish the city's image. The derelicts head south without a cent, carrying battered suitcases and sleeping bags to escape the freezing weather. Some make downtown Bayfront and Bicentennial parks their open air hotel rooms. Others live under expressway ramps, in doorways and back alleys and even sleep hi gutters.

"We have our own share" of bums an year, said Calleja. "But what we've got now is Chicago's, New York's, New Jersey's and everywhere else's "You've got to sort of keep them back during the daylight hours when the streets are full," Calleja said. "They're all sprawled out on benches and on the floor, they sleep In doorways and rummage through gar bage, we can have that. Police officials say the drifters are more a nuisance than dangerous, but Maj. Alfredo Bared reminded his uniformed squads this week "to control the undesirables." That means more arrests on minor charges like disorderly conduct, vagrancy and possession or drugs.

Two men were arrested Tuesday for smoking marijuana on the steps of the Miami Dade Public Library. A 24 year old Chicago mart was picked up for sunbathing without a shirt on In Bayfront Park. He was charged under a little used 1957 city law requiring sun bathers to wear "normal street clothes properly arranged" if they're not at a beach or pool. Vagrants staying in the park often venture into the library "to read the newspapers, magazines and actually use the books as other Bwt. aaavWr' aHHu, aw gGfBBBBMBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBn s3 JggjiBBflM la ilCHrltJLfc.

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A Turlington Asks Boost JFor Schools On the Wing Gov. Bob Graham works on a portion of a wing assembly Wednesday during his workday at the Piper Aircraft assembly plant in Lakeland. Graham is on the first of five such workdays part of a state drive to encourage industries to move corporate headquarters to Florida. TALLAHASSEE (AP) Education Commissioner Ralph Turlington said Wednesday he'll ask the 1980 Legislature for $180 million more tor schools next year to pay for maintenance needs and higher costs for fuel, utilities and student Instruction. Turlington said the $2.4 billion education budget lawmakers approved last June for the 1980 81 school year isn't enough to cover unanticipated expenses that have arisen over the 'past few months.

Included in his supplemental budget request, Turlington told a news conference, is $32 million for emergency maintenance projects at public schools and $12 million to replace school buses that are more than 10 years old. In addition, he said, school districts need $29 million to cover unexpectedly high enrollment in public schools, which is 15,000 students greater than originally estimated. Inflated utility costs at public schools, community colleges and state universities demand $35 million more than budgeted, he said. "It is my responsibility to call to the Legislature's Sbbbb bbbbV HMb? IbbbbI Bundy's Defense Gears Up in Orlando By GREGORY MILLER TODAY Staff Writer ORLANDO Death Row inmate Theodore Bundy returns to court today as defense lawyers try to discredit evidence linking him to the murder of a 12 year old schoolgirl. The legal team for the convicted Chi Omega sorority house killer will begin an expected three days of testimony before a jury decides if Bundy kidnapped and mur dered Klmberly Diane Leach of Lake City.

The trial paused Wednesday as defense lawyers lined up their witnesses and evidence. Testimony will resume at 9 a.m. today at the Orange County Courthouse. Prosecutors rested their case Tuesday after seven days and 65 witnesses. Piece by piece, they unrolled a largely circumstantial case brimming with fabric analysis, credit card receipts and people who saw Bundy or a lookalike driving a white van across North Florida.

State Attorney Jerry Blair and assistant Bob Dekle say the handsome former Utah law student stole the van and tried to pick up a Jacksonville girl before pulling Leach off the sidewalk and into the vehicle Feb. 9, 1978. Leach's partially nude and decomposed body was found eight weeks later in an abandoned hog shed about 35 miles west of Lake City. Receipts from stolen credit cards analyzed by a state handwriting expert placed Bundy In Lake City and Jacksonville 60 miles east in the two days before the girl disappeared. The credit cards were among the 21 found by police when Bundy was caught with a stolen Volkswagen Feb.

15, 1978. The former Pensacola patrolman who made the arrest said Bundy "wished I had killed him" and asked to be shot. Leslie Ann Parmenter, teen age daughter of a Shevin Leads Petition Drive For State Reapportionment ByBILLKACZOR TODAY OwMMtl Nwt rtiot TALLAHASSEE Robert Shevin will be leading a campaign to strike down a legislative reapportionment system that he successfully defended in the courts when he was Florida's, attorney general. "I think it's a concept that will eventually become the lawjn Florida," Shevin said of the Citizens Amendment. He is the newly named co chairman of a petition drive to put the amendment on the November ballot.

The measure would mandate use of single membermember legislative districts to prevent gerrymandering that discriminates against blacks, Hlspanlcs, Republicans and other minorities and takeaway the Legislature's right to reapportion itself. "I've sort of seen the handwriting on the wall," Shevin said in a telephone interview from his Miami law office His conversion, howtver, is not recent. Although he was mandated, as attorney general, to defend the state's apportionment lawsjagalnst tSBBfkwJ BBBBH 'aV SBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBbI viiSBBBBBflaaBSBBBBl PT JfflH ROBERT SHEVIN leads redlstiicung push legal attack, he helped lead reform efforts as a member of the Constitution Revision Commission two years ago, The commission placed a measure virtually identical to the Citizens Amendment on the ballot in 1978, but it and all other proposals the panel suggested west down to defeat Supporters believe the reapportionment amendment was victimized by a carry over of negative votes from other items on the ballot, including an initiative to legalize casino gambling. "Its going to be tough,) Shevin said of the Citizens Amendment initiative, but he expressed confidence that single member districts', the heart of the proposal, will eventually be mandated by the courts regardless of what happens to the Citizens Amendment. A glaring example of discrimination allegedly caused by large, multiple member districts (as many as six legislators per district) Is in Dade County Shevin makes his home.

Although Hispanics have a majority on the Miami City Council, there is not a single Hispanic in the Legislature from Miami. The large legislative districts overlap into adjacent suburban areas where the Hispanics are outvoted by the Anglo majority, Shevin said. The petition drive marks Shevin's return to the public spotlight following his loss in the Democratic gubernatorial run off election two years ago, but he insists It is not a forerunner of political rebirth. "I said when I left the political scene I intended to remain active in civic affairs," he said." Jacksonville police detective, said a Bundy lookalike in a white van approached her in a parking lot one day before Leach disappeared. He drove off after her brother arrived, she said, but not before the two wrote down a a license tag number later found on a credit card receipt signed by Bundy.

Handwriting analyist John McCarthy said Bundy was the man who charged food and drinks the same night to a room at the Holiday Inn two miles from the Lake City Junior High School. It was the next morning outside the school that former Lake City fireman C.L. Anderson said he saw a man pull "a girl dressed like Leach into a white van and speed away. Jacqueline Moore, wife of a Lake City surgeon, said she was driving home that morning when a van driver she identified as Bundy scared her off the road. The weaving driver appeared to be fumbling with something in the passenger seat, she said.

A state lab technician said a semen stain found on the dead girl's panties matched Bundy's blood type, and that blood the same type as Leach's had been found inside the van. Finally Tuesday, a fabric and footprint expert who ex amined stray threads on Leach's clothes said it was "probable" the girl had been in contact with a blue blazer owned by Bundy. She also said it was "very probable" Bundy and Leach had been inside the van and rubbed against a van carpet on the load Bundy says he's a victim of coincidence and wrong identifications. He admits to using stolen credit cards in Lake City at the time Leach disappeared, but denies he did anything to the girl. His lawyers have subpoenaed more than 70 witnesses, but Circuit Judge Wallace Jopllng said he hopes to send the case to the jurjSMonday afternoon.

In a futile attempt to have the charges dismissed Tuesday, Bundy argued that the state had failed to prove any kidnapping or murder occurred. The state produced no murder weapon and Anderson's story is "inherently unbelievable and incredible and not supported by any other witnesses," Bundy said. The fireman waited five months to tell his story, and then only after seeing Bunays picture on teie iiinrrfT Arguing that jurors should be able to see the school yard, Bundy said that if "one juror disbelieves that C.L. Anderson saw what he saw, then there's no evidence there was an abduction or a murder as the state contends." RALPH TURLINGTON wants $1M million more attention these needs that we have," Turlington said. "The Legislature has a public responsibility to meet the needs and see that the pub4 lie's dollars are used wisely." Turlington's request for more money comes at a time when Gov.

Bob Graham is asking departments to look for ways to cut their budgets at least 5 percent because of a weakening economy. Graham, who will submit his revised 80 81 budget to the Legislature Feb 22, said he may recommend $75 million in cuts. But Turlington noted that sales tax collections are stronger than expected this year, already producing more than $75 million more than economists predicted. He noted tax collections from other sources particularly the corporate Income tax also are hefty. Turlington recommended that $45 million for schools be withdrawn from the state's rainy day fund, which exceeds $450 Lawmakers set that reserve aside in case economic conditions cause state revenue to fall short.

Senate President Phil Lewis, West Palm Beach, and other legislative leaders have resisted efforts to dip into the reserve. They said they fear the money might be needed later this year if economic conditions deteriorate. Ellison's Audit Critical Of State Publications TALLAHASSEE (AP) State agencies spent more than $7 million last year putting out magazines, flyers, brochures and newsletters sometimes just to garner good public opinion, according to an audit released Wednesday; Auditor General Ernest Ellison said the real cost to the taxpayers was far more than what was reported by 30 executive branch agencies. He said many of the 366 state financed publications reported had "Inadequate or nonexistent" cost ac counting records while others were given away free when reci pients should have paid for them. The publications reviewed included everything from Department of State's "Administrative Weekly" to the 1 partment of Education's "Judging Dairy Goats" and from University of Florida's Review of the Bloodsucking Psychodid Flies of Colombia" to the now defunct Recovery Council's 'Garbage Gossip." Although Ellison said many publications appear valid sal worthwhile, he urged more rigid controls, including a requiL ment that agencies clearly specify In each publication if state law that clearly or implicitly authorizes the The audit, which included a 163 page appendix listing the publications the agencies reported, showed that: Development costs weren't reported for 1,700 publications, including the mammoth 1979 81 state budget, and dhi tribution costs weren't listed for 1,450 others.

Twelve publications costing $71,713 were not reportedly four departments that were subjected to very limited audit test." Seven unreported publications were by the Department of Health and Rehabilitative such as "Monthly Vhal Statistics fieport." ,1 jrrfv'S.

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