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-t STATE PAGE 12B SOUTH BRQWARD Sun-Sentinel, Thursday, November 5, 1 998 Section MS JOSE LAMBIET South Florida Insider Teen in deatK charged stabbing Police also name accused accomplice in gang-related incident in Weston Tyf 1 stabbed. Police say Lugo is also a Latin King. Both charges could be upgraded because of Ibarra's and Lugo's gang memberships. Ibarra's parents declined to comment on their son's arrest The three teens fought after Ibarra flashed a gang hand sign at Berrios-Cruz at the Weston McDonald's on Indian Trace Road on Monday night a "cardi- PLEASE SEE STABBING 6B trusted employee, could be "King Bru-jo," a member of the Latin Kings gang, as police said he is. On Tuesday, Broward Sheriffs Office deputies charged Ibarra, a Weston resident, with attempted murder for twice stabbing David Berrios-Cruz, 16, of Weston, a member of a rival gang called the Unfadable Gangsters, police said.

Ibarra's friend, Andres Lugo, 17, was also charged with being an accomplice to attempted murder and battery, for kicking Berrios-Cruz after he was By VANESSA BAUZA and DIEGO BUNUEL Staff Writers He swept lint off the floor for $45 a week and called his boss at the Davie dry cleaners "Dad." After a year, Yasbeth Ibarra, 19, was trusted with the keys to the store. But recently Arthur Wilson, Ibarra's boss, worried about the crowd he hung out with. Never did he think Ibarra, his most Ibarra Lugo Staff photoURSULA E. SEEMANN THE GRATEFUL ESCAPE A victim involved in a two-car crash at the intersection of Stirling and Dykes roads in Davie was able to crawl out of the overturned car he was in and walk to an awaiting 1 ambulance on Wednesday. Glam couple's shaky marriage on rocks? One of the golden couples of Fort Lauderdale's charity circuit Jack and Kathie Jackson is splitsville, and my sources tell me they might get a divorce.

Jack, the Jack in Burt and Jack's restaurant and the Jackson in the chi-chi Las Olas Jackson's 450, and former model Kathie have been living apart for weeks. Friends say the couple are looking for an amiable, quiet divorce to end their 24-year marriage. "We haven't even filed paperwork yet," said Kathie, who moved to Pompano but has been showing up at the couple's Las Olas Isles home once a week to pick up her mail. Considered the business mind behind the couple's rapid rise in the restaurant biz and high society, Kathie now sells therapeutic magnets. Jack still runs Burt and Jack's, the Port Everglades restaurant he started with Burt Reynolds.

He also runs Jackson's 450, which became known as H. Wayne Huizenga's favorite hangout when the soon-to-be-ex Mr. Marlin announced on national television last year that he would celebrate the World Series victory there. Friends say that Kathie didn't like Jack getting too caught up in Jackson's 450 live-fast-and-hard world. "We are trying to save this marriage," Jack said.

"We are working on it." Maybe so, but Kathie left while Jack was on a fishing trip. The couple have a 19-year-old daughter, a college sophomore. Taylor grins and bares it Snarling linemen don't scare Dolphins pretty boy Jason Taylor, and neither does hot-rodding in and out of 1-95 traffic on his yellow motorcycle. But having teammates get hold of Page 242 in this month's Ocean Drive magazine, that freaks the dude out. Taylor, fullback Jamie Reader and special teamer Nate Jacquet parked their bikes outside Hollywood's Mama Mia restaurant the other night and were accosted by a friend waving the mag.

It has a full-page glam shot of the bare-chested Taylor. With Reader and Jacquet cracking up and quipping that Taylor looks a tad skinny for a football player, Taylor left strict instructions that the mag wasn't to find its way into the restaurant, where Shawn Wooden, Calvin Jackson and other Dolphins were doing tequila shots. "He didn't want them to give him a hard time about it," the friend said. "But he was pretty impressed with his picture." For those who may get ideas after seeing the pic, Taylor told the glossy he looks for his girl in the stands before games. She's Katina Thomas, who happens to be Zack Thomas' sister.

Fast-tracking to a job Going through a red light in Broward these days could actually get you a job. Discreetly slipped in the payment envelope handed to traffic criminals is a message from the folks who process tickets, the Clerk of Courts: "Quality applicants wanted," the note reads. A phone number is added, along with an e-mail address and info on how to apply for a job at the clerk's office. "Sounds like a good recruiting device," said Clerk of Courts Bob Lockwood. "We have a few openings and they're hard to fill." No wonder.

Rookie salaries start around 6 bucks an hour. Here come the stars The Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival rolls into gear this weekend, and some of the stars are already here. Titanic producer Jon Landau read the traffic report on ZETA's morning show Wednesday. Love Story director Arthur Hiller is expected to be at Friday's kickoff shindig at DCOTA, as is the drop-dead gorgeous red-headed Melrose Place starlet Cheryl Pollak. Pollak came in early to try on a fabulous emerald-and-teal ensemble designed by Fort Lauderdale designer Shirley L.

Huskey. She'll wear it at Friday's opening night gala. And finally If you see Chastity Bono about town next week, don't ask her about The Sonny and Cher Show. Bono, who'll be in Lauderdale for a Gay and Lesbian Community Center fund-raiser, says she's tired of being asked about being routinely dragged on stage by her parents. "I don't remember anything," she told the Sun-Sentinel's Jody Benjamin.

The cowboy hat Larry Hagman wore in Dallas will be auctioned at the fund-raiser Fledgling model Ivanka Trump, the 17-year-old daughter of The Donald and Wife No. 1, Ivana Trump, will be the first cover girl for the new mag Ocean Drive's Palm Beach, It's owned by the folks who run SoBe's hip mag and the Palm Beach edition, due to hit the stands on Nov. 15, will carry society stories by gossip column fodder Roxanne Pulitzer. Administrator's fate a thnrnv issue Mitch maroons murder suspect in Honduras town 7 7 School Board tackles double standard in coverup Jf By DANA CALVO Miami Bureau MIAMI A killer hurricane in Honduras may have helped corner a man who thought he got away with murder in Miami. Initially, Miami police had little hope of catching a one-time butcher suspected of strangling to death his girlfriend and then fleeing to his homeland of Honduras.

Then things changed because of family ties, international cooperation and massive flooding from Hurricane Mitch. Now police think they have their man cornered in a small town in Honduras, isolated by flooded roads and downed bridges if he survived the storm. "It's going to be a couple of days before they can get in and arrest him, but they know he's in that town already," Miami Detective Octavio Aguero said. "We don't know if he's alive. It's very possible that he's buried under a ton of mud." The man they want is Dalio Ordenez, 22, who allegedly strangled to death his live-in girlfriend.

PLEASE SEE SUSPECT 6B Seigle The Broward County School Board must wrestle with a few issues on Tuesday as it decides the fate of personnel chief Mark Seigle. mediate loss in pay. He would be demoted to director of labor relations, a job that would not be opened to other applicants, under the agreement that the School Board must decide whether to ratify. The agreement also halts a five-month internal investigation before a personnel committee can decide whether he violated policies. The terms concern some School Board members, as well as people who have fought the district on similar issues.

"The main issue should be consistency," said Nina Ashenafi, an attorney for the Broward Teachers Union. "Certainly, teachers are not given that opportunity" to cut a deal before the district determines if wrongdoing occurred. PLEASE SEE FATE 6B By BILL HIRSCHMAN Education Writer Should every government employee be disciplined the same way regardless of circumstances? Should longtime employees be treated more leniently than newcomers? Are you guilty of double-standards and favoritism if you do? The Broward County School Board must wrestle with these issues on Tuesday as it decides the fate of personnel chief Mark Seigle. Seigle was accused of covering up a 1979 shoplifting case, lying on records, falsifying records, destroying records and abusing his power by running an unauthorized background check. Seigle has signed a proposed settlement that allows him to escape a reprimand, a suspension and an im Condo voters were not MacKay's buddies Big Broward County condos that rolled up huge victories for Gov.

Lawton Chiles in 1994 produced smaller margins for MacKay this year. Broward on Tuesday than four years ago, although there were 155,823 more registered voters. Because of that, the big Broward County condominiums that rolled up huge victories for Gov. Lawton Chiles in 1994 produced smaller margins for MacKay this year. "A lot of Democrats in Broward County stayed home because of the colorless campaign of Buddy MacKay and because they thought he had no chance of winning," said Jim Kane, editor of Florida Voter political journal and an observer of Broward politics for the past two decades.

Kane also said condominium residents are aging, and "it's having an effect on their ability and desire to vote." The results in places such as the Cen- PLEASE SEE MACKAY 5B By BUDDY NEVINS and RAFAEL LORENTE Staff Writers Low turnout in Broward County's vote-rich condominiums killed Buddy MacKay. But blacks, who many expected would stay home or vote for Jeb Bush in larger numbers than four years ago, stuck with the Democratic Party. MacKay, the Democratic nominee for governor, needed a large number of voters going to the polls in heavily Democratic Broward County to offset the win Bush, the Republican nominee, received in the rest of Florida. He didn't get it. Instead, turnout dropped dramatically on Tuesday from the 1994 governor's race from 61.6 to 46.6 percent.

There were 34,833 fewer votes cast in The number of people casting ballots dropped by 34,833 since the last governor's race, although Broward County has 1 55,823 more registered voters. Condominium voters cast fewer votes for MacKay, but not necessarily more votes for GOP nominee Jeb Bush. Despite a major push by Bush and the GOP to win black votes, MacKay won almost the same margin of African-American voters as Gov. Lawton Chiles did four years ago. State Rep.

Tracy Stafford, D-Wilton Manors, won almost every part of his district although he was faced by the toughest challenge of his eight-year legislative career. School Board candidates Paul Eichner, a Democrat, and Judie Budnick, a Republican, beat their opponents throughout their entire districts. South Florida Insider appears Tuesday and Thursday. Call him at 954-3564529 or e-mail him at.