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6A Fort Lauderdale News, Tuesday, January 6, 1987 hf The State n0l7! AT THE Oriental Ru Palace. 3-day governor busy 10-year-old hostage called mature, level-headed for age IS YOUR CHANCE TO SAVf ON. HUNDREDS OF GENUINE HANDWOVEN, 100 WOOL SUPER FINE 90 LINE ft" CHINESE CARPETS For eight hours they negotiated with the gunman until he released the boy. "It was clearly a horrific situation for the boy, but he is holding up very well under the circumstances," airport spokesman Joe Dealey said. Officials praised Michael cool under pressure, which came as no suprise to neighbors.

"Michael has always seemed mature for his age," vernor who did the least damage." There was a more serious side to Mixson during his caretaker term between the outgoing Democratic administration of Bob Graham who cut his governorship three days short to be sworn in Saturday as Florida's junior U.S. senator and the incoming Republican administration of Bob Martinez. (Martinez will be inaugurated today). Mixson is preoccupied still with his role for the past eight years as the state's commerce secretary and ambassador to the business world. And after helping to diversify Florida's economy, to raise state per capita income to the national average and to make the state one of the tops in business climate in the nation, Mixson now is worried.

By DIANE HIRTH Tallahassee Bureau TALLAHASSEE Forty-eight hours into his 72-hour term as Florida's 39th governor, Wayne Mixson was a busy man. By noon Monday, the former lieutenant governor and longtime cattle rancher had concluded the one and only Cabinet meeting of his administration, installed a new commerce secretary, made 105 appointments and held a press conference. He even was proffering cards saying, "Wayne Mixson, Governor, The Capitol," affixed with a gold seal and a phone number that will no longer be his as of noon today. Still, Mixson graciously conceded he hoped his legacy would be this: "I want to be known as the go said Kathy Farrow, another neighbor who said she has known the Carusos since they moved to bunrise five years ago. Both Michael Sr.

and Cindy Caruso work for American Express in Plantation. Michael Sr. was the director of data processing and his wife worked in the fi By JONATHON KING Staff Writer Level-headed, mature and strong-willed were the words friends and teachers used to describe Michael Caruso the 10-year-old Sunrise boy who was held hostage by a gunman for eight hours at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport on Monday. "It doesn't suprise me to hear that he handled himself well," said Patty Preble, a neighbor of the Caru-sos in the 5800 block of Northwest 12th Court in Sunrise. "He's a very mature child.

Certainly not your typical 10-year-old." Michael, who was travelling with his parents, Michael Caruso Sr. and Cindy Caruso and their 6-year-old daughter, Rosey, were waiting at the ticket counter about 4:45 p.m. Monday when a man brandishing a black snub-nosed revolver grabbed the boy around the head and demanded that bystanders hit the floor. When Michael Sr. reached for his son, the gunman fired a single shot into the air, causing bystanders to hit the floor for cover.

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5, 1987, gunman, identified as Solah Abdou-Kassem, held 10-year-old Mike Caruso Jr. of Sunrise hostage for eight hours while demanding to be flown to Egypt In November 1985, a man pulled a pen knife on a male steward and held him hostage in the aircraft for several hours before releasing him unharmed. In August 1985, Delta Flight 191 from Fort Lauderdale crashed during a severe thunderstorm, killing 136 people. Abdou-Kassem, who appeared to be of Middle East descent, was questioned by airport security and FBI agents, then taken to the Dallas County Jail, about 25 miles away, Dealey said. FROM PAGE 1A New governor vows to cut $800 million in state spending The new governor will submit his recommendations for a proposed 1987-88 budget to the Legislature in late February, but lawmakers are under no obligation to comply.

The current state budget is $16.5 billion. Yet while there were promises of belt-tightening, Martinez did not rule out the possibility of new taxes and did admit the budget will probably keep growing: "$16.5 billion. A big number that will get bigger as Florida continues to be the pacesetter of national growth," he said. The former Tampa mayor is the first Republican to become governor in 20 years and only the second since Reconstruction. "Much has been said and written since my election about how different I am that I am Hispanic, a Republican and a former mayor.

All of this is true. But I did not come here to be different. I came here to make a difference," he said. Martinez, 52, listed the improvement of education and quality health care among his top goals. He also vowed to get back to the basics of government, "public safety, public education, public health and public works." The former city official, who until last summer was president of the Florida League of Cities, also vowed to bring local governments into a closer partnership with the state.

He hinted that decision may not be met with joy in all quarters of state government. "I sometimes suspect that there is a school on the road to Tallahassee that teaches those who come here that most local government officials are stupid or corrupt and Abdou-Kassem was being held in Dallas in lieu of $750,000 bond on investigative charges of aggravat ed kidnapping and terroristic Oriental Rug Palace 11865 U.S. Hwy. 1 N. Palm Beach (One Block North of PGA Blvd 152 S.

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When Abdou-Kassem grabbed the boy, he fired a shot into the ceiling and yelled at people to get down on the floor. Then Abdou-Kassem took the boy, ran through a security checkpoint and down a concourse toward Boarding Gate 10 in Terminal 4-E. Gov. Bob Martinez the deluded people who elect them cannot be trusted to know what is good for the communities in which they live and work," Martinez said. "I came here by a different road, so I did not graduate from that school, and I intend to reach out to local governments and bring them into the decision making circle." Florida's education needs highlighted much of the new governor's speech, not surprising since Martinez is a former teacher and served many years as head of the Hillsborough County Classroom Teacher's Association.

He said he will not be obsessed by raising teacher salaries saying the focus should be instead on improving student performance. "I believe the emphasis should be on the students who come out of our schools, not on the money we put in," he said. The terminal was evacuated, stranding as many as 6,000 passengers and affecting as many as 50 OPALM BEACH 627-0052 the gunman was the boy's father just playing around." Fuerstenau, an IBM employee returning to Austin after a trip to Palm Beach County to visit relatives, said others near the ticket counter became hysterical after the gunman fired his weapon into the ceiling. "Everybody was screaming, especially the boy's mother," said Fuerstenau, whose mother. Marge, lives in Delray Beach.

Staff Writers David Uhler and Steven Girardi contributed to this report edly threatened to kill the child unless he was flown to Egypt. Shortly before the gunman surrendered, six Islamic leaders, one dressed in a long white robe and a turban, the rest in Western garb, were brought to the police command post at the request of airport authorities, but they did not talk to the gunman, Dealey said. A witness, Rick Fuerstenau, 34, of Fort Lauderdale, said he was 10 feet behind the family when the gunman burst into line and grabbed the child. "The boy's father told everybody to hit the ground," Fuerstenau said. "I thought it was a joke.

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