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CLASSMATES GET ANTIBIOTIC FOR MENINGITIS LOCAL NEWS, IB WEATHER: Sunny. High 77, low68.2A HEAT 103, WARRIORS 93SP0RTS, 1C AAAAAAAAAAAAA he Palm Beach Post SOUTH COUNTY FINAL THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1995 386 PAGES 50 CENTS 4 Happy Heiress Jacquie Levitz missing iA The former Palm Beach resident may have been murdered, police in Mississippi say. 'It's reassuring to me that there are still people in this world that are willing to put their lives on hold to extend themselves and help other JKiYMFEIt TATIIAM her sister's house in Tallulah, one day before Thanksgiving, isn't giving up. "We're still hoping that she is alive," said sister Tiki Shivers. "This was a lady who did nothing but kind things.

She spent her lifetime helping people, and whoever did this to her, she would have helped him too." Known as Jacquie, Levitz was a charity fund-raiser, interior decorator and former Texas beauty queen. For the past five weeks, she lived alone in the brick house Please see LEVITZ 13A white, convertible Jaguar is still in the driveway. The front door was left unlocked. I Ier bed sheets are also gone. Barrett thinks Levitz's body was wrapped in them after a struggle.

"The biggest mystery to me and I've been in this business 42 years is that they would take her," Barrett said. "If it was just robbery, why take her? If it was a kidnapping, and she was certainly wealthy enough, you'd think there would be a ransom demand by now." But Levitz's family, some of them gathering 20 miles away at By BETH REINHARD Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Jacqueline Levitz, 59-year-old furniture heiress who left homes in Palm Beach and California to return to her Southern roots, has disappeared from her new house overlooking the Mississippi River. Police think she may have been murdered. They found blood under her mattress and on the bedroom carpet. They also found the tips of fake fingernails, indicating a struggle.

They were called Monday by one of Levitz's sisters, who couldn't reach her by phone for two days, said Warren County Sheriff Paul Barrett. Police could not confirm Wednesday that the blood belonged to Levitz. So far, the clues to her disappearance are few and befuddling. Police say only two purses are missing, presumably carrying her credit cards and checkbook, which apparently haven't been used. Her Jacqueline Levitz, furniture heiress and charity fund- raiser, is missing from her Mississippi home.

Police suspect foul play. jreace in warriors lianas V-- I' Aij I UN MS1 A 1 7 Kk aJ rM 1: '(? Vlf 4 f- j. JASON NUTTLEStaff Photographer Keith Mclntyre and his daughter, Rachel, have received several awards for rescuing Jennifer Tatham (foreground). Her blessing: One family's heroic gift A year ago, a firefighter and his family helped save the life of a Royal Palm Beach woman. By MICHELE GELORMINE Palm Beach Post Staff Writer ROYAL PALM BEACH Jennifer Tatham doesn't remember being pulled from her burning car last Thanksgiving Eve by off-duty firefighter Keith Mclntyre.

She doesn't remember his daughter, Rachel, making sure she could breathe until paramedics arrived. Tatham doesn't remember anything from last Thanksgiving. Or the next few days. But she knows this: Without the Mclntyre family, she might not be alive. The car Tatham, 22, was driving collided head-on with another car on State Road 7.

Her right knee was split open to the bone. Blood covered her face and mouth. "I tried not to look at her face," Rachel, 12, said. "And I just kept trying to calm her down by talking to her." Mclntyre's wife, Terri, collected jackets to cover the injured woman while 8-year-old Adam Mclntyre sat in a dark car about 300 feet away, waiting and worrying until Tatham was flown by helicopter to St. Mary's Medical Center.

Because of their heroics, the Mclntyre family has received several awards, including the Royal Palm Beach citizen of the year award. Mclntyre, a captain with the Lake Worth Fire Department, received the Samaritan Award last month from the Palm Beach Please see RESCUE 13A i' REUTER A soldier grips his automatic rifle and a boy holds a flower while they Balkan leaders returned from peace talks in Dayton, await the arrival of Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic in Sarajevo on Ohio, and now must sell the agreement to their people. Christmas in Bosnia for 25,000 Americans "We've got to be able to withstand those casualties." The four-star general made no estimate of how many might get killed. Reimer, speaking with defense reporters, said this was "a major concern on my part." At the White House, press secretary Mike McCurry said President Clinton was prepared to justify to the nation and the balking Republican Congress that American lives are worth ending the carnage in Bosnia. Please see BOSNIA20A By PATRICK J.

SLOYAN Newsday WASHINGTON A NATO police force including 25,000 U.S. combat troops will begin arriving in Bosnia before Christmas with authority to use tanks, helicopter gunships and other weapons to enforce peace in the former Yugoslavia, U.S. officials said Wednesday. Leaders of Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia who initialed a peace agreement Tuesday to end the 3Vi-year-old Balkan war have armed NATO commanders of an estimated 60,000 troops with a military annex, a document that authorizes use of is Virtual diplomacy: Computer aids talk 19A all necessary force to suppress armed opposition. But U.S.

military commanders anticipate casualties from snipers, more than 1 million land mines and problems during a tour of at least one year. Gen. Dennis Reimer, chief of staff of the Army, which would do the lion's share of the work in Bosnia, said U.S. troops are well-trained but still vulnerable. "If we make a commitment to this, we've got to expect some type of casualties," Reimer said.

Inside Chiles besieged with letters blistering Sachs nomination CB. HANIF 16A ANN LANDERS 2D BUSINESS 11B LETTERS 15A CLASSIFIEDS IE LOTTERY 2A DEAR ABBY 2D NEWSMAKERS 2A EDITORIALS 16A OBITUARIES 10B FLA. NEWS 6B STOCKS 12B DAVE GEORGE 1C TV SPORTS 2C HOROSCOPE 2D RON WIGGINS ID MOVIES, TV LISTINGS IN ACCENT CROSSWORDS 24-hour sports, tAli. miicir MCfl IMS. Man wins harassment suit against Domino's By JOHN FERNANDEZ Palm Beach Post Staff Writer MIAMI The former manager of a Domino's Pizza in Port Richey has become the first man in Florida to win a sexual harassment lawsuit against a woman, his former boss.

U.S. District Judge Henry Lee Adams ordered Domino's to pay David Papa $237,257 in back pay. In a ruling issued Friday, he also ordered the pizza giant to post a written "sexual harassment and retaliation policy" in each of its stores for at least two years. The judge also ordered Domino's to educate its managers and supervisors about sexual harassment as part of their training. The case was the first undertaken by the Miami-based Equal Employment Opportunity Commission involving a man sexually harassed by a woman.

"I hope people will start realizing that men can be victims of sexual harassment," said Papa, 32, who lives in Deltona. "This is not a gender issue, but a Please see HARASSMENT26A swwi ii'uaxi Finn breaking news and tjUU much more. See (SJlOlltJ 2A for details. appoint a judge to the vacancy. During a special meeting Monday, committee members castigated Smith for publicly expressing disappointment with the nominees.

Smith responded by calling the selections "abysmal" and suggested that Sachs' nomination had been engineered by her husband, attorney Peter S. Sachs, a Boca Raton lawyer in the firm of Sachs Sax and a member of the Florida Bar Association's Board of Governors. In letters to the governor, several local attorneys echoed those sentiments. Carol McLean Brewer, presi- By GARY KANE Palm Beach Post Staff Writer WEST PALM BEACH A barrage of letters decrying the nomination of Boca Raton attorney Maria Sachs for appointment to a vacant circuit judge's seat has rained upon Gov. Lawton Chiles' office.

Included in the mailbag is a letter signed by C. Culver Smith, chairman of the local committee that nominated Sachs, who states he is "deeply concerned about the events surrounding the nominations." Smith wrote the letter on Nov. 15, a day after submitting the names of three nominees to the governor, who has the pqjer to FOR HOME DELIVERY SERVICE 8204663 1 800654 1231 Basketball Preview Staying home: More and more Florida prep basketball players are staying in the Sunshine State for college. An NCAA preview, 1C. The nomina- tion of Boca Raton lawyer Maria Sachs for a judicial appointment has created protest.

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