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r7r L12 Spacek and Nolte in 'Heart Beat': A portrayal of the Jack Kerouac era Iff See Entertainment, 5B IFdDint laiifeirdlsife News Home Edition 25 Cents TUESDAY, MAY 6, 1980 1M0 Owe Newspapers Company An rights imnnd $5 million Hollywood complex set ballrooms available to hotel guests and membership groups. Atlanta-based Thompson, Vantulett and Steinback, the architects of Omni "megastractures" in Norfolk, Atlanta and Miami, have been criticized for using a fortress-like design approach in its inner-city Omni complexes. This is the first Omni-type development to be built in a suburban setting. The development will overlook the Orange Brook Golf Course to the, east, the Hollywood Please turn to page 8A, column 1 management bidder. A second phase of development will add another 150,000 square feet of office space and 1,400 residential units.

An elevated walkway will connect the residential and commercial developments into a self-contained urban center, Expected to begin In the mid-1980s, the second phase will provide a self-contained city of residential, work, recreation and shopping areas within the 68 acres. The first phase of development will include rooftop tennis courts, swimming pools, spa facilities and By Todd Mason Hollywood Inc. plans to build a $50 million "urban center" with hotel, office and shopping facilities to be designed by the architects of the Atlanta and Miami Omni complexes, The News has learned. The development near the Hollywood Mall will include a 12-story, 411-room luxury hotel and 150,000 square feet of offices and small specialty stores. The company declined comment until a press conference that was to be held later today.

The development will have a landscaped ice skating rink as a focal point. It will incorporate vaulted glass and other construction techniques to enhance openness in the rink area, which is a commons area between the hotel and commercial areas. Construction will begin' within a year on the first phase of development on 68 acres south, of Hollywood Boulevard and east of 35th Avenue. The project's first phase is expected to be completed two years later. The company has approached major hotel chains but has not awarded a management contract as yet.

The complex will take its name from the successful hotel U.S. gets bodies of servicemen in Zurich "i -SD The Associated Press The bodies of the American servicemen killed in the failed hostage rescue attempt in Iran arrived in Zurich, Switzerland, today and were transferred to U.S. custody for the journey home. In Tehran, meanwhile, the newspaper Kayhan reported that an American woman had been arrested as an alleged CIA spy. She was not identified.

Iran's revolutionary guards contend they have documents proving that the woman was working for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, Kayhan said. The Iranian Foreign Ministry asked that she be handed over to its custody, it was reported. In Washington, State Department spokesman said they were unfamiliar with the report and could not comment on it. In a ceremony at a Zurich airport tangar, Greek Catholic Archbishop! Hilarion Capudji, who accompanied the coffins on a Swissair flight from Tehran, formally transferred the.

Americans' remains to Swiss govern-' ment and International Red Cross officials, who then passed them on to U.S. Ambassador Richard Vine. A U.S. Air Force C-141 transport plane stood by to fly the remains back' to the United States later today. Officials in Zurich said the plane would fly to Dover Air Force Base, Del.

Confusion persisted over the number of bodies. The United States has maintained consistently that eight men died in the April 25 rescue bid and has named them. But the Iranian Please turn to page 10 column 1 AH photo Swiss police guard nine coffins at Zurich airport after the bodies of U.S. servicemen were flown in from Iran today. Carter aide: Florida to get disaster funds assured Carter would take "prompt and positive" action on the request.

When approved by the president, the disaster declaration will clear the way for the federal government to take full responsibility for the refugees and speed up federal reimbursement to the state and local governments for money spent helping the Cubans. Graham said there have been no estimates prepared on the significant "indirect costs" such as the salaries of the state employees involved and the overtime they have been forced to work. Graham said the disaster declaration was needed, in part, because new federal refugee laws no longer automatically designate people fleeing communist countries as "political refugees." Short of an emergency declaration, a legal determination of the people being "political refugees" is needed to get the federal government involved, and that can, be a long-drawn-out legal process, the governor said. As of 6 a.m. today, Graham said, 17.636 Cubans had been processed in Key West and another 400 were on the docks awaiting screening.

More than 3,300 of the refugees were in Broward and Dade counties awaiting processing and by tonight 4,500 will have been flown to Eglin Air Force Base in Fort Walton where they will be temporarily housed in a tent city. Please turn to page 8A, column 1 Nests wire services aod ulaff reports President Carter will declare Florida a federal disaster area, making it eligible for federal aid to handle the massive influx of Cuban refugees, an aide to the president said yesterday. Governor Bob Graham, who estimated the state has already spent $300,000 in direct services for the refugees, asked the White House to immediately take over the refugee operation because "it's a federal problem and state and local services are being severely taxed." Graham, who said his request for the disaster declaration had been forwarded to the White House by the federal Emergency Management Agency at 7:30 this morning, added he had been Marriage-minded senor looks at refugees for a new 'novia9 Limelight disco in Hallandale is I destroyed by fire single Cuban woman interested in marriage. Not right away, mind you. There would be a little dating before hand and all that.

His real aim is to find a wife. Red Cross officials working at the armory sent Martini to the Club Cubano at 1301 Copans Road in Pom-pano Beach, where Cuban refugees already processed by immigration officials are waiting to be picked up by Please turn to page 8 column 1 By Andrew Froman Staff Writer George Martini is a fairly successful Broward real estate agent. He owns a comfortable home in Margate, drives a nice car and keeps himself in good shape for a man pushing 50. But George Martini (not his real name) lives alone and doesn't like it. So this week, he showed up at the Fort Lauderdale National Guard Armory on State Road 84, looking for a Inside today 2A Newsmakers Vol.

69, No. 171 5 Sections By George McEvoy Siarr Writer "I-- The Limelight in Hallandale, one of the top disco clubs in South Florida, burned to the ground early todaj despite the efforts of firemen who fought the blaze for three and a half hours before bringing it under control-Arson investigators from the Broward Sheriff's Office were on the scene this morning. They would not comment on a possible cause of the fire, but one investigatof said he was "intrigued" by two factors: The fire broke out when the club was closed, aslt normally has been on a Monday night or early Tuesday. When firemen arrived at the scene, flames were seen at two separate points in the club. Capt.

Joe Lello, of the Hallandale Fire DepartmenC said the blaze broke out about 1 a.m. in the club, at 1001 N. Federal Highway, and burned until 4:30 a.m. One fireman, Dean Conte, sustained a broken right foot. Lello said when his units arrived including two engines, two rescue vehicles and' a ladder truck -4 flames could be seen coming through the roof on the north end of the nightclub, over the bandstand, and also on the roof at the south end of the disco.

Ordinarily, two points of origin in a fire indicates arson, but Lello said he was not certain the blaze erupted at those two points. Lello said a multiple alarm was sounded at 1 a.m., and a second alarm then brought in an engine company from Hollywood, under the reciprocal aid plan. Before the night was over, Lello said, a third alarm State news 13A Sports 1-6D Television 7-8D Weather 2A World news 5C COLUMNISTS Dr. Joyce Brothers 2C Dr. Paul G.

Donohue 2C Ann Landers 2C Bernie Lincicome 1D Steve Weller 1B Advice 2C Bridge 14C Business 6-13C Classified 7-30E Comics 14-15C Crossword 14C Deaths 4B Editorials 14-15A Gossip 1SC Horoscope 14C Legislature 12A Lifestyle 1-4C Local news Newt Phone. Circulation, 761-4610 Classified, 761-4111 Other Departments, 761-4000' was suuuueu aim a suuraei ituck irom Hollywood responded. Sufr pboto by BOB EAST (II A fireman hoses down the Limelight club in Hallandale early today. Movie times 6B Please turn to page 7 column 1.

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