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I WARMER TODAY A mix of clouds and sun expected with a slight chance of showers. Highs will be warmer, near 72. WEATHER, 2A CEMETERY SEARCH OFFICIALS WANT TO MAP STORM VICTIM GRAVES LOCAL NEWS, IB 'ROSIE' AT BAT WWII GAVE WOMEN A FIELD OF DREAMS ACCENT, ID PAYING THE PRICE DOLPHINS TO BOOST MOST TICKET PRICES SPORTS, 1C ie Palm Bead: St SATURDAY JANUARY 18, 1992 86 PAGES 35 CENTS FINAL EDITION XEL board flattens dissent 1 fired, 2 suspended after criticism of stations' CEO -LL ft A Yd! of the station's 64 full- and part-time employees had signed a petition calling for Sang to quit. Employees said their complaints include the recent hiring of an money-raising chief and what they claim is Sang's insistence on wasteful spending. They cited as an example this week's hiring of valets to park cars and waiters to serve fancy hors d'oeuvres, including fresh shrimp and cranberry muffins filled with committee of South Florida Public Telecommunications the not-for-profit corporation that holds licenses to WXEL-Channel 42 and Cameron Harris, WXEL's assistant director of development, said she was fired by Dorlis Johnson, senior vice president of finance and administration.

Johnson, the only WXEL employee who did not call for Sang's resignation at a Wednesday staff meeting, was appointed Friday as acting general manager of the pub lic broadcasting stations. She declined to comment. South Florida Public Telecommunications Vice Chairman Richard Kip told Barbaro of his suspension as three officers from the Boynton Beach Police Department waited in WXEL's parking lot on South Congress Avenue. The police were called by South Florida Public Telecommunication's executive committee. The suspensions and firing capped a tension-filled week at WXEL.

By Thursday, more than 50 ALLEN EYESTONEStaff Photographer Please see WXEL14A Sam Barbaro is bid farewell after being suspended with pay. Winning A Bear At Opening Of Fair actory rade output, I it'? eficit drop I Jf By ERIK MILSTONE and JANE VICTORIA SMITH Palm Beach Post Staff Writers BOYNTON BEACH Two top officials from WXEL were suspended, and one employee was fired on Friday after a week of protests that included accusations of financial abuse and calls for the resignation of chairman and chief executive Lewis "Dusty" Sang. President Sam Barbaro and vice president of development Anita Kirchen said they were suspended with pay by the executive Big Sugar, state reach Everglades cease-fire Both sides hope a 30-day legal moratorium will allow them to agree on a cleanup plan. By MARY McLACHLIN Palm Beach Post Staff Writer WEST PALM BEACH State government and Big Sugar have agreed to a cease-fire in their legal war over the Everglades. Both sides say they want to put a barrage of lawsuits and administrative actions on hold for at least 30 days while they try to work toward something both say they want a pollution-protection plan for the Everglades that doesn't shut down the Everglades sugar and vegetable industries.

"We may be building a breakthrough," said Dan Thompson, general counsel for the Department of Environmental Regulation. "There has been constructive dialogue between (DER) and the farm interests which hadn't been going on before." The break came after DER and other agencies said state-owned farmland should not be leased to growers involved in lawsuits against the state. Meetings on the Everglades land leases evolved into talks about cooling off the entire legal struggle, which has cost both sides millions of dollars. The pattern resembles actions that led to settlement of a federal lawsuit over Everglades pollution in 1991. The settlement began with a 60-day moratorium on legal maneuvers, which allowed closed-door negotiations to begin.

Both sides say negotiations between the state and farm interests will be open. Florida Sugar Cane League representatives have met five times in the past two weeks with officials and lawyers of DER and the South Florida Water Management District. The league is dominated by Please see EVERGLADES 18A if 4 0 I tj jf (jf Los Angeles Times News Service WASHINGTON The recession dragged down the nation's industrial output by 1.9 percent in 1991 for the first decline in nine years, but a strong export showing helped to shrink the S. trade deficit in November to the lowest level since early 1983, the government reported Friday. The Federal Reserve Board said that production at mines, mills and utilities fell by 0.2 percent in December as they operated at only 79 percent of capacity.

It was the third consecutive monthly drop in industrial production, renewing fears of economists that the recession was deepening. But other analysts said that unusually warm winter weather, lowering utilities' heating output, accounted for a large part of the December decline and did not indicate a renewed slump in the econo- IBM loses $1.38 billion in fourth quarter 7B my at the start of a presidential election year. "It confirms the 'little recovery we had hit a brick wall, and it's pretty much flat," said Rudolph Penner, an economist at the American Enterprise Institute. "But there's no sign of a cumulative decline." In the trade report, the Department of Commerce said that American export sales climbed by 0.9 percent to a record-high $37.5 billion in November, while imports plunged by 5.5 percent to $41 bil-' lion as the weak economy took its toll and worried consumers Cut back their spending. The new figures were certain to Please see ECONOMY 16A King's daughter chides Bush on civil rights ELECTION Additional coverage from the campaign trail 12A! Los Angeles Times News Service ATLANTA Singing and swaying to the civil rights anthem We Shall Overcome, President Bush linked arms with the widow of Martin Luther King Jr.

in an appeal for black votes and a bid to ease the racial strains of his civil rights policies. But at a ceremony in honor of the federal holiday commemorating King's birth, Bush ran into sharp reminders of dissatisfaction with what still remains undone. "How dare we celebrate!" asked the Rev. Bernice King, the slain civil rights leader's daughter, in an angry benediction, pointing to the tens of millions of Americans who are functionally illiterate or do not have health care. "How dare we celebrate!" she repeated again and again, "when GREG LOVETTStaff Photographer rides, arts and crafts booths, livestock exhibits and live entertainment, including the Elastic Gymnastics.

The group combines acrobatics and bungee-jumping in its show. They perform today through Feb. 2 at noon, 6:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. STORY, 2B WEST PALM BEACH Crissy Zrallack of Fort Pierce hugs a prize that David Meyerson of Long Island, N.Y., won for her on the opening day of the South Florida Fair on Friday at a basketball-shooting booth.

The fair, in its 80th year, features more than 100 midway Please see BUSH1 2A' Wr 1 State court ousts i judge for remarks; on blacks, Jews i 1 4 y-V. Inside FICTION California's governor creates 'composite' characters to illustrate a speech. STORY, 2A IMPLANTS A Dow scientist said in 1974 that silicone, including that in breast implants, can affect the immune system. STORY, 3A 1 -4 9f -j 'Vj1 4 LETTERS 19A LOTTERY 2A DAN MOFFETT 1C Shamir seeks elections as coalition slips By LOUIS J. SALOME Palm Beach Post Staff Writer JERUSALEM Breaking his silence about the impending collapse of his hard-line governing coalition, Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir said Friday that he favors early national elections rather than leading a minority government.

In interviews with state-sponsored Israel radio and television, Shamir, who was pushed into the Middle East peace talks by the Bush administration, emphasized his desire to continue with the negotiations, which ended their third round this week in Washington. By at least continuing to show up for the peace talks, Shamir hopes Israel will receive some of the $10 billion in loan guarantees it is requesting from the United States to house Soviet immigrants. Opposition Labor Party leader Shimon Peres told state radio on see ISRAEL 16A ANN ABBY 2D BUSINESS 7B CLASSIFIEDS IE COMICS 8D EDITORIALS 20A FLA. NEWS 8A HOROSCOPES 7D IN CANADA 10A LEGIS. 8A 6B 2A 8B 4D 6D 2C OBITUARIES PEOPLE STOCKS THEATERS TV LISTINGS TV SPORTS it P.

1 The Associated Press JACKSONVILLE The Florida Supreme Court removed the chief circuit judge in a northeast Florida district Friday for comments made Dec. 22 in a newspaper interview that some perceived as racist. The action came just a few hours after Judge John Santora, 69, strongly objected in a 27-page filing to an attempt by 20 northeast Florida lawyers to have him removed. The panel's vote to remove Santora was 6-0, with former Jacksonville Judge Major Harding presiding. The high court, however, said it did not "address (Santora's) fitness to serve as circuit judge." Instead, the justices based their action on Santora's statements in the newspaper.

In the interview, he blamed school violence on integration, opposed interracial marriage and complained that most welfare recipients are black. Santora said the district has enough black judges but needs more Jewish judges to work over the Christmas holidays. He later said his comments about Jewish judges were in jest. They "have been read by a significant portion of Pie" se see JUDG'-Vlsa" Vol. 25 No.

23 1992 The Palm Beach Post 4 Sections FOR HOME DELIVERY SERVICE 8204663 1800654 1231 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS U.S. 3rd Armored Division Departs Germany FRANKFURT, Germany The departure of the last of the 3rd Armored Division's 20,000 troops from Drakes Barracks, its home since 1955, marks the halfway point of U.S. troop withdrawals from Europe and the end of the 50-year-old unit. An honor guard, flying the unit's colors in closing ceremonies on Friday, later packed the flags for the last time. STORY, 16A i 1.

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