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COURT OF APPEAL DOW DOWN 41 HEAT STREAK HEMINGWAY IN NEW SHOW MONDAY'S REBOUND WINOVERJAZZ weather1 9 a FROM 'LA. LW' CREATOR i AS ONLY A BRIEF RESPITE MAKES MIAMI 6-2 "MTHER, 2A REVIEW, ID BUSINESS, 6B SPORTS, 1C Z. he Palm Beach Post WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1991 56 PAGES 35 CENTS FINAL EDITION 4 1 I I Graham wins mayor's race set ud a transition team of about a dozen people, she said. She will meet with the team and city department heads Friday. The election marks the first time in more than seven decades that West T- 1 I A 1 1 A-J Voting Results WEST PALM BEACH MAYOR 100 of precincts reporting VOTES PERCENT Nancy Graham 4,199 55.8 Mike Hyman 3,332 44.2 the city at this point can come back together again.

That's what we're both in this for, is to take the city forward." Graham, celebrating at Chukker's Lounge in the Ramada Hotel Resort, said she was thrilled and numb. With their votes, residents demanded change, Graham said. "They don't want the same people in charge anymore. And they clearly know that that's going to happen with me." In her victory speech, Graham said, "I believe we can do things differently. I believe that we can do things a lot better.

And, most importantly, I believe we can do things honestly." Her first order of business will be to By ANGELA BRADBERY Palm Beach Post Staff Writer WEST PALM BEACH Voters on Tuesday chose environmental attorney Nancy Graham to become the city's first elected mayor since early this century a victory Graham said was a clear cry for change. Graham, a former city commissioner, won by a comfortable margin over Mike Hyman, owner of a jproperty management company. With 28.7 percent of the city's voters going to the polls, Graham received 55.8 percent of the vote to Hyman's 44.2 percent. With 4,199 votes, Graham carried 22 of 31 precincts, including the precinct designated for absentee voters. Hyman raim neacn residents nave eieciea a mayor.

Before now, city commissioners had selected someone from among themselves to hold what had been a largely ceremonial post. Residents in March voted to change the government, the idea being that West Palm Beach needed an elected official to act as both a leader and a lightning rod. With no one in charge and with constant infighting, the five-member City Com- Please see GRAHAM8A -vvik -i won nine precincts with 3,332 votes. Hyman, flanked by supporters and his wife, Sherry, at the Governmental Center, accepted his defeat quietly and graciously. "It's a tough loss because we put our whole heart into it," he said.

"I hope that C.J. WALKERStaff Photographer Nancy Graham hugs her daughter Ashley during a celebration Tuesday at the Ramada hotel. Sutherland Reunited With Family Abortion aw an rum C7 A S. zk 1 survives State seeks psychiatric exam for yeast doctor By MICHAEL LASALANDRA Palm Beach Post Staff Writer State medical authorities want a judge to force an unorthodox Palm Beach doctor who specializes in the treatment of yeast infections to take a psychiatric exam to determine whether she can safely practice medicine. Dr.

Suzanne Peoples, 44, is known throughout the county for her television and billboard adver-, tisements that ask: "Could you be a victim of the yeast syndrome?" i According to the ads, symptoms include allergies, anxiety, asthma, constipation, diarrhea, earaches, fatigue, gastroenteritis, headaches, infertility, muscle weakness, muscle aches, persistent coughs, PMS, skin irritations and sinusitis. In September, the state Department of Professional Regulation found probable cause to believe Peoples was "unable to practice medicine with reasonable skill and safety to patients by reason of a right to get an abortion. All 24 of Bush's vetoes since taking office have been upheld, i The president was supported by 113 Republicans and 43 Democrats just hours after he announced his veto of the $205 billion appropriations bill for the departments of Labor, Education, and Health and Human Services. Voting unsuccessfully to override were 222 Demcn crats, 53 Republicans and the House's only independent. Rep.

Harry Johnston, D-West Palm Beach, voted to override the president's veto; Rep. Tom Lewis, R-North Palm Beach, voted to support the president. Bush's veto was directed at one Please see ABORT 1 OA The House fails to overturn a ban on abortion counseling at federally financed clinics. By JEANNE CUMMINGS Palm Beach Post Washington Bureau WASHINGTON The House failed Tuesday to override President Bush's veto of a bill that would have eliminated rules against abortion counseling. The 276-156 vote was 12 short of the two-thirds needed to override Bush's veto.

The result salvaged a regulation prohibiting workers at federally financed clinics from telling patients they have illness or as a result of a mental or physical condition," according to a petition filed Monday in Palm Beach County Circuit Court. The department concluded that the evidence warranted a mental examination, which Peoples refused to take, the suit said. If the exam shows she is impaired, the state Board of Medicine can revoke or suspend her license. A Palm Beach police officer also told the DeDartment of Profes Prosecutor switches jury-selection tactics wr I By CHRISTINE STAPLETON and FRANK CERABINO Palm Beach Post Staff Writers WEST PALM BEACH The lead prosecutor in the William Kennedy Smith case offered poten- sional Regulation that Peoples is "possibly unable to make rational decisions concerning her business and private life," the petition states. Peoples denied that she is mentally unfit.

"Absolutely not," she said Tuesday at her office. She said charges were being made to discredit her medical iiai a WILLIAM KENNEDYj ing during the first day of group interviews Tuesday. Lasch had asked only superficial questions about pretrial publicity and the Kennedys. But in the courtroom crowded with the 43 prospective jurors, she challenged them to disagree with a battery of common-sense questions: "Do you agree that the laws governing criminal conduct apply to every hour of the day or "Do you think a woman loses her right to say no to sex if a man asks her to give him a ride home?" Please see QUESTI0NS4A jil primer on prosecution tactics Tuesday by asking questions about under THE ASSOCIATED PRESS tages. Sutherland said his captors told him Americans Joseph Cicippio and Alann Steen would go free soon.

U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar said there is an agreement in principle for release of all Western hostages by Christmas. STORY, 3A WIESBADEN, Germany Former hostage Thomas Sutherland hugs his wife, Jean, Tuesday at the U.S. military hospital in Wiesbaden. Sutherland, 60, was held hostage for 6'2 years in Lebanon.

He and freed hostage Terry Waite appealed for release of all hos- wear brands and women who keep late hours. Assistant State Attorney Moria Lasch drastically changed the topics and techniques of her question- views, including the belief that common ailments ranging from allergies to PMS are caused by yeast infections throughout the body. Please see D0CT0R7A No license to lie: Collector gets probation for faking tag losses Inside REBUKE Ethics panel votes to punish Sen. Alan Cranston. STORY, 3A MEDICAID MONEY The House moves to spend more on health care.

STORY, 10A SOVIET SALVATION Seven nations to defer debt. STORY, 13A By TIM O'MEILIA Palm Beach Post Staff Writer WEST PALM BEACH An Indiana man who wants to collect car license plates from every Florida county could have landed in a state prison making all he wanted. That's because Lee Roy Troyer, i. 16A 5B 2A 1C 10 6B SO 6D 2C McEVOY OBITUARIES PEOPLE ROSAFORTE THOM SMITH STOCKS THEATERS TV LISTINGS TV SPORTS ANN ABBY 2D BUSINESS 6B CLASSIFIEDS IOC COMICS 80 EDITORIALS 16A FLA. NEWS 12A HOROSCOPE 70 LETTERS 15A LOTTERY 2A Judge orders halt to forced return of Haitian refugees WASHINGTON A federal judge in Miami on Tuesday ordered a five-day halt in the forced repatriation of Haitians trying to flee to the United States by boat, as hundreds more Haitians put to sea.

The ruling came only hours after a second group of more than 300 Haitians was returned to the island. The United States resumed a decade-old policy of returning Haitians on Monday, after a period of relaxation following a military coup Sept. 30 that ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. The State Department says 538 Haitians have been returned In the past two days. Only 53 in the present exodus have been given asylum.

Despite the forced repatriations, the flight from Haiti increased suddenly in the last 24 hours The Coast Guard said 650 more Haitians were picked up Tuesday, the largest number to date, and that the total number of refugees in American custody had passed 3,000. Coast Guard officials said they feared that news of the stay order will encourage many others to flee and that many will drown. Thirteen Coast Guard cutters circled in choppy Caribbean waters in 6-foot waves Tuesday The ships are laden with Haitians plucked from the sea, includ- Pase see HAItTt'12A A 49, claimed he lost the tags to his 1961 Ford or 1985 Toyota pickup 41 times in 12 counties in the past two years and bought new tags for $17 each. "It's the his- tnrv hphinrl this spring. He was arrested on 12 counts of lying to obtain the new plates and faced five years in prison for each count.

Instead, Palm Beach County Circuit Judge Marvin Mounts put Troyer on probation for a year after he pleaded guilty to one count. He's also serving a year's probation on an identical charge in Sarasota. Troyer said most of his collection of 3,000 license plates from every state and some foreign countries is on his father's farm in Millersburg, Ind. He spends the winter living with friends in Sarasota and Palm Beach counties. "Is a Gator plate more valuable than a Seminole plate?" his lawyer, George Barrs, wanted to know.

Mounts ordered the out-of-date plates seized from his car trunk to be returned by police. "Uh, oh, I see a Florida plate with a Hurricane on it," the judge said with some distaste. "If you'll notice," Troyer said, "it's exp.ed." Vol. 83 No. 201 1991 The Palm Beach Post 4 Sections FOR HOME DELIVERY SERVICE 8204663 1 800654 1231 POSTLINES: PAGE 12B i is III '7 them," said Tryer Troyer, who appeared in court wearing a shirt painted with license plates from around the country.

"I've got nearly all the Florida counties." He swaps the extras with out-of-state collectors. The Division of Motor Vehicles computercaught up with Troyer THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WE RECYCLE For Information, call 1 800-432 7595 7 ext. 4638. Red Cross, workers help a refugee in Port-au-Prince as rhers leave a U.S. Coast Guard shi.

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