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Sun-Sentinel, Wednesday, July 11, 1990 7A a Vt.li BAii PAIM BEACH Nel son expected to name Gustafson as running mater Chiles says he would seek change in federal court order for prisons it will bring us everything we're looking for." Nelson is a five-term congressman from Melbourne. His supporters hope Gustafson, a 14-year veteran of the Legislature, will help overcome the popularity of rival Democrat Lawton Chiles. Although Nelson has made gains with Democratic voters in recent months, polls still show Chiles running way ahead in the primary battle. Gustafson, known as a workhorse and a big money raiser, is viewed as a major attribute in that he could help capture the votes of Broward Democrats. Broward is the second-largest Democratic county in the state with about 380,000 registered Democrats, only slightly fewer than in Dade County.

Broward's Democratic voting bloc has proved helpful to other hometown candidates seeking statewide office. In 1986, former Broward Sheriff Bob Butterworth got a boost from his home county in winning the Democratic battle for attorney general. "Considering the amount of money Gustafson has piped into Broward County from the Legislature, he ought to be pretty popular," said Sam Bell, a Talla- hassee attorney who is a longtime Gustafson friend and Nelson supporter. "I assume he'll be perceived statewide as an honest, hard-working legislator who can deliver Broward." The other prominent Democratic team in the race is former U.S. Sen.

Chiles and former U.S. Rep. Buddy MacKay. Republican Gov. Bob Martinez's running mate is former Monroe County Sheriff Allison DeFoor.

During the past two years, Gustafson and Martinez have often been at odds over state priorities, state spending and taxes. This spring Gustafson won a battle with Martinez over a revamp of the state's juvenile justice system and a $5 billion transportation plan. "Now they have two guys from outer space on the ticket," said Mac Stipano-vich, Martinez's campaign manager, alluding to Nelson's space shuttle trip and Gustafson's nickname of "Whirlybird." "It's a good choice for Nelson it fills the spot on the ticket This lieutenant governor thing is not heavy lifting, so Tom can probably do it." sociation and introduced Martinez. The governor was applauded when he touted his record of building 28,000 new prison beds during the past four years. "You supply the prisoners," he told the sheriffs.

"We will provide the prison space required." Florida's prison system was sued by inmates 18 years ago and is under a federal court order to prevent overcrowding and guarantee humane conditions. "We really think that it's time that we revisit the federal court and point out they are demanding standards on us greater than we demand in the building of college dormitories," Chiles told the sheriffs. He said prison standards that require a certain amount of space for each inmate are stricter than those for housing members of the Marine Corps. career criminals get tough sentence law, which calls for longer sentences and eliminates many early-release programs, was enacted in 1988 and aspects of it were just taking effect. Silver, D-North Miami Beach, met with prosecutors, public defenders, law enforcement officials and prison officials on Tuesday to discuss how the law was being implemented statewide.

In the past three months, the number of defendants sentenced under the habitual offender law has climbed to about 7.5 per UNEMPLOYMENT day, left a job with a brokerage firm in 1988 during a downturn. He has landed only short-term jobs ever since. "I do this for a while, that for a while. It's what I call scratch and scramble," said Jamison, who has collected unemployment compensation checks for 26 weeks. Jamison thinks his age and experience are obstacles-because South Florida employers are looking for young and cheap labor.

"Business is so bad they can't afford to pay quality wages," he said. Gayle DeHart, manager of the Delray Beach unemployment compensation office, said she has seen nothing unusual so far in the number of people coming in to apply for unemployment checks. DeHart attributed the increased number of unemployment applicants to seasonal layoffs. The office now receives about 100 to 150 claims a week. Elsworth Watson, 28, a mason, has been out of work since December because of a By LINDA KLEINDIENST Tallahassee Bureau Chief TALLAHASSEE House Speaker Tom Gustafson is to be named today as the running mate of Democratic guberna- toriai nopeiui mil Nelson.

Gustafson, 40, a Fort Lauderdale attorney who had planned to retire from politics this fall, was unavailable for comment. But sources close to the campaign said the deal was sealed during the wppltpnrl The announcement Nelson of Nelson's choice for lieutenant governor will be made in Tallahassee, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach. Miami Rep. Mike Abrams, Nelson's political director, said, "It's no secret we were looking for a South Florida presence. And Broward County is the center of the Democratic primary universe now.

Tom's credible on state issues. He is energetic and a hell of a campaigner and Analyst: Few The Associated Press TALLAHASSEE Only about 5 percent of the inmates who are eligible for stiffer terms as career criminals are sentenced under the state's habitual offender law, a legislative analyst said on Tuesday. "On the face of it, it would seem to be a low figure from a common sense standpoint," said Rep. Ron Silver, chairman of the House Criminal Justice Committee. But he said the state's habitual offender FROM PAGE 1A Unemployment claims jump, reflect job lag throughout the state points of the increase in claims came from benefits paid to agricultural workers in the wake of last winter's freeze.

Construction and manufacturing are suffering slumps, too. Geographically, more and more of the people filing claims are Floridians, as opposed to those who are laid off in another state and file here, Switzer said. On the unemployment lines and in state and private employment agencies, the sense of a downturn was often reinforced. Sandy Jamison, 45, of Delray Beach, a former stockbroker, has been looking for a full-time job "with a future" for the past two years. Jamison, who visited the Job Service of Florida office in Delray Beach on Tues- FROM PAGE 1A Strike violence grips Nicaraguan capital; street battles spread public order and avoid sabotage and anarchy of Sandinista vandals" and to "cooperate in the removal of the -anti-social gangs which have taken over public buildings." At one of Tuesday's confrontations, former Contras and other government supporters gathered around the conservative Radio Corporacion station, in a middle-class Managua neighborhood.

Armed men carrying AK-47s and pistols and wearing bandannas over their faces, took control of the neighborhood around the station. They burned an army jeep, overturned other vehicles, and erected barricades. Earlier on Tuesday, four Central American presidents called for foreign support of 'Chamorro. The presidents of Guatemala; El Salvador, Costa Rica and Honduras issued a joint communique "calling on the international community to lend its valuable assistance to the Nicaraguan government in its search for a solution to the crisis it is undergoing." Chamorro on Monday ordered the army and police to clear blocked streets and dislodge striking government workers supported by the opposition Sandinista Front from government offices and state-owned businesses. Bulldozers manned by army troops knocked down paving-block barricades, but some were promptly rebuilt by Sandinistas, who pledged to continue the general strike that has paralyzed the capital.

Although the Sandinistas still play a large role in the army and the police, they FROM PAGE 1A Bosch balks over one condition of U.S. offer; negotiations to resume partment was negotiating the terms, Eramian said, "We are willing to listen." "I wouldn't rule out" the possibility of more discussions today, Eramian said. The Associated Press PENSACOLA Lawton Chiles told Florida's sheriffs on Tuesday that if he was elected governor, he would seek changes in a court order he says gives prison inmates better living conditions than students in college dormitories. The former Democratic U.S. senator, accompanied by his running mate, Rep.

Kenneth "Buddy" Mac-Kay, appeared at the 77th annual conference of the Florida Sheriffs Association being held in Pensacola. Republican Gov. Bob Martinez addressed the group on Tuesday night and presented the sheriffs with a $500,000 check representing a state appropriation to the group for use in anti-drug activities. Martinez's running mate, former Monroe County Sheriff J. Allison DeFoor was once a member of the as offenses on inmates' records.

About 1,000 of the 44,000 people admitted to Florida's prisons in the last year were sentenced under the habitual offend-, er law, Stevens Inmates typically serve about a third of their sentences before they are freed under a variety of early-release programs. Inmates sentenced under the habitual offender law, however, serve about 70 percent of their sentences, Stevens said. porary-to-permanent," employers who contract with a worker for a limited period and hire that person if they like him. Yet Goldman also reported that many job applicants do not have the skills employers seek. "We're trying to place applicants that don't have as many qualifications," she said.

Tom Shea, partner of Right Associates, a national consulting firm with offices in Fort Lauderdale, said, "The mood is becoming more conservative in terms of people's outlook for their own career opportunities. A person currently employed will take a little longer to find new opportunity." Shea also said that although businesses are planning more conservatively, "it doesn't mean a disastrous economy." Goldman is convinced that the economy will improve. "I experienced this in Chicago in 1974," she said. "It got better. It will get better." market economic reforms.

The broader general strike began on Monday. Workers remained in control of dozens of government ministries and state-owned industries. Pro-Sandinista radio said that striking farm workers in the countryside took control of more state and privately owned farmland. Dozens were injured in Tuesday's violence, officials at area hospitals said, although information was incomplete and confused. The casualty toll since the disturbances began on Friday was four dead and about 100 injured, police said.

The strike has evolved into a major test of force between Chamorro's U.S.-backed government and the Sandinistas, who gov-erned Nicaragua until losing February elections and handing over power in April. "No matter who looks like the winner at the end of this, Nicaragua's chances for recovery are badly hurt," a diplomat said. "Nicaragua is the loser." In addition to government ministries and industry, the nation's international airport, land borders, and most businesses were closed on Tuesday. The governent and its supporters have accused the Sandinistas of trying to overthrow Chamorro's government. The Sandinistas claim Chamorro's economic policies squeeze workers' incomes to benefit the wealthy and try to turn back the revolution with plans to sell state-owned companies and farmlands.

The Sandinistas remain the largest single political force in the country. Chamorro won the February elections with the backing of a 14-party coalition that ranged from the far right to the Communists. This report was supplemented with information from Sun-Sentinel wire services. General's Office, and I've signed the paper and I've served it" Perry Rivkind, who preceded Smith as INS director in Miami and who was in charge when Bosch returned to the United States from Venezuela in 1988, said the Department of Justice has no choice but to release the anti-Castro activist. "It's unheard of to detain someone indefinitely," said Rivkind.

Staff Writers Monica Rhor, Luisa Yanez and Liz Doup contributed. NICARAGUA I I DIGEST Staff and wire reports 7-1-1 win in Cash 3 -5 might break the bank The numbers 7-1-1 are normally lar with Florida's Cash 3 players, but the ll state could be a whopper of a loser if they come up in tonight's drawing. Had the numbers normally associat- ed with a dice game come up on July," 11, 1988, the state lottery would have paid $5.3 million, despite only $920,000 in sales. The state would have had to pay just over $5 million to holders of tickets with "aj 7-1-1 had it floated up on July 11, 1989. To- tal Cash 3 sales: $739,399.

In both years, the numbers 7-1-1 did not come up on July 11, however. "Seven-eleven are traditionally lucky numbers. I think it will be highly played," Lottery Secretary Rebecca Paul said. Ev- ery Cash 3 winner receives $500 for pick- ing all three numbers. Rap lyrics' distribution by paper sparks lawsuit FORT MYERS A newspaper's distri- bution of lyrics from a 2 Live Crew album that a Lee County judge declared obscene has sparked a citizen's complaint to the State Attorney's Of fice.

A front-page editorial last month by Everett Landers, executive editor of the Fort Myers News-Press, resulted in the 1 complaint by resident Phil McCorkle, said 1 1 1 T- I puuue spuiteswunian caruara lance. --Landers' editorial offered free copies of the lyrics to anyone over 18 who stopped by the newspaper's office and requested them. -3 Man nears execution as appeals are argued TALLAHASSEE A man condemned for beating, strangling and raping an el- 5 derly woman in Dade County 11 years ago came within 12 hours of his scheduled exe- cution as a hearing continued early today on his appeal. The execution of Roy Allen Stewart was originally set for 7 a.m. Tuesday, but if was pushed back until this morning by a Miami judge who scheduled an evidentiary hearing for Tuesday afternoon.

The hearing before Circuit Judge Mi-chael Salmon began 15 hours before Stew-1 art, who has survived two other death i warrants, was to be electrocuted. Stewart was moved to Miami Florida State Prison near the North Flori- da town of Starke for the hearing, said 11 Paula Tully, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Corrections. State education leader touts 'one-stop' schools 2 TAMPA Besides reading, writing and arithmetic, Florida schools should of- "7 fer "one-stop shopping" for family health care, counseling, food stamps and job referrals, Education Commissioner Betty Castor said. Castor talked about the need for such "full-service schools" during a general meeting on Monday of the Florida Study Commission on Child Welfare. "We need to exert a feeling of urgency," Castor told the panel, which legislators established in November.

"We need to do something yesterday. This is not a subject we can put off." The 15 judges, lawyers, legislators and social service workers meet about once a month. Their report is due in March. Auto crash at Disney leaves 3 dead, injures 1 LAKE BUENA VISTA A high-speed 'IK IB Lb UK on cent of those who meet the state's minimum requirements, said Richard Stevens, an analyst with the Legislature's Division of Economic and Demographic Research. But since the law took effect, the statewide average has only been about 5 percent of the defendants who could get stiffer sentences under the law, Stevens said.

He said, however, that the estimate was based on data that considered only the number of prior felonies not the actual construction industry slowdown. "It looks like the whole state of Florida is out of a job," said Watson, of Delray Beach, who was greeted by a long line of people filing claims at the Delray Beach office on Tuesday. In Watson's search for a full-time job, he's found "nothing, period." "I haven't seen it this bad since 1982," he said, referring to a slump in the construction industry. The sense of a slump was also felt in Broward. "It's the first time I've ever seen the economy in such bad shape in Broward," said Barbara Goldman, executive vice president for1 Personnel One, an employment agency.

She arrived in the county in 1975. Older, more skilled workers have had a hard time finding well-paying jobs. "We're not getting the quality permanent orders we used to get," Goldman said. Goldman's business has shifted to "tem- 1 AP photo barricade in Managua on Tuesday. ed by the Sandinista Party, has demanded that the government agree to negotia- tions on economic and political issues that are central to Chamorro's plan to re- vitalize and restructure Nicaragua's economy, one of the poorest in Latin America.

Chamorro has offered a "broad national dialogue" but stopped short of agreeing to direct talks with the strikers, Pro-Sandinista union workers have been on strike for 11 days to protest against the Chamorro government's free- "We've been through this sort of thing before. It wasn't surprising to me that this happened," she said. "I'm just neutral on this right now. The lawyers are waiting for a reply from Washington. That's all that's standing in the way right now." Richard Smith, INS district director in Miami, said his office was not directly involved in the negotiations.

"The parole conditions were worked out in the Justice Department," Smith said. "I'm serving as the agent of the Attorney a.i..;,i,w.. 1 i i Ktjt.fcW An army bulldozer clears a makeshift appear to be responding to the govern- ment's orders. Police had reported 12 arrests. Many supporters of Chamorro said that they distrusted the security forces, however.

Striking workers appeared determined to continue the confrontation, which has rocked the fragile 10-week-old Chamorro government and left many Nicaraguans wondering who is in charge. The National Workers' Front, support- BOSCH 111 wo Bosch, 63, has spent much of the past 17 years in jail for anti-Castro activities, including firing a bazooka at a Polish freighter that was supplying Cuba in Miami harbor in 1968. He was imprisoned for 11 years in Venezuela on charges of masterminding the 1976 bombing of a Cuban jetliner that killed all 73 people aboard. His daughter Myriam Bosch said he was hopeful and in good spirits. She said she was not dismayed by the delay.

crash at Walt Disney World killed three teen-agers and critically injured a fourth early Tuesday, the Florida Highway Patrol said. The four were in a late-model Ford Mustang traveling at more than 85 mph when it smashed into the rear of a bus at the Caribbean Beach Resort hotel complex, said Lt. Chuck Williams. There were no passengers aboard the bus, the patrol said. vt-'r.