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123 esehkhz 33 Pertly cloudy F33VlIirD Head to Eneadl High: mid-80s Low: mid-60s Family has sent four generations to FAMU This year's match up between Miami and FSU may be the biggest and best ever 1 3 crat REGIONAL EDITION MONDAY September 28, 1987 82nd Year, No. 271 Florida's Capital Newspaper 25 Cents msznn: 4 raw legal oyster harvests may Iranian's act spoke louder than rhetoric By Laurie Becklund Los Angeles Times ring jail term By George Thurston Democrat correspondent I 'i (111 r- VJi II 9 I It. -Ill 1 samer allowed oystermen to post a $250 bond and then forfeit it without appearing in court. That left them with no record of conviction, and did not identify repeat offenders. According to local officials, most poachers considered the fines simply a cost of doing business.

Some oyster workers bragged publicly about illegally harvesting oysters. State officials and Marine Patrol officers say the new policy may represent a major gain in their efforts to halt illegal oystering in Ap-alachicola Bay if it is enforced. "The Franklin County judicial system has been a weak link in the regulatory process," said John Schneider, oyster expert for the See OYSTER, 7A APALACHICOLA Franklin County oystermen found guilty of taking oysters illegally might find themselves spending some time in jail under a policy change announced last week by County Judge Susie Mesamer. Under the new policy, any person arrested by a Florida Marine Patrol officer for a major oystering violation will be required to appear in county court. If they plead guilty or are convicted by trial, Mesamer said, they face a maximum penalty of $500 and 60 days in jail, in addition to court costs.

A second offense could bring a fine of $1,000 and as much as a year in jail. Under her previous policy, Me "It is a lie to say that I am not afraid, or to claim that my goal is martyrdom. But if the necessity arises, I accept death so that I may leave an impact like every responsible person of the Third World, I know that he who has not suffered death does not know life." Neusha Farrahi LOS ANGELES Paradoxically, now that strangers finally want to know what Neusha Farrahi has to say, he lies in silent agony with deep burns over 70 percent of his body. A respirator and medication keep him from speaking. No one can say for sure if he will survive.

Outside his room in the Los Angeles County-University of Southern California Medical Center, in the large Iranian community in Los Angeles and in similar communities around the world, his name is being invoked. Neusha Farrahi, martyr. Nfusha Farrahi, show-off. The 31-year-old intellectual made headlines Sept. 20 when he took the stage at a demonstration at the Federal Building in Los Angeles and made a once-in-a-lifetime bid to make himself heard above the routine political chants.

"Death to the monarchy!" he shouted. "Down with the Islamic Then he set himself on fire. A leaflet Farrahi had written in English for the demonstration reflected his Marxist politics, but not the intense young man of letters who carried out what officials say may have been Los Angeles' first political self-immolation. "By setting fire to myself I am not only protesting the presence of the Iranian butcher, Khamenei, to the United Nations," he wrote in reference to the visit to the United Nations of Iranian President Ali Khamenei, "but also President Reagan's ultraright foreign policy as well as the poisonous activities of pro-monarchy elements." Farrahi's action spoke louder than the rhetoric of his leaflet It shocked his family and resounded through the large Iranian exile community both in Los Angeles and abroad. Many of the estimated 200,000 to 400,000 Iranians in the Los Angeles area share his profound hatred of the regime of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

Farrahi's act has prompted hundreds of telephone calls and letters to local Iranian media. Because the story was broadcast into Iran by the Voice of America, some of the responses have come from inside the country. See ACT, 4A Dm the Ortega's unrefined rebel-with-a-cause image gets results By Reid G. Miller Associated Press MANAGUA, Nicaragua His face contorts, his voice rises and his grip on the microphone tightens as Daniel Ortega nears the end of another familiar attack on the United States, his words tumbling forth in almost choked passion. "It is the government of the United States, it is President Reagan, who will have the last word on when peace will arrive in Central America!" the Nicaraguan president shouts to a sympathetic audience of government functionaries.

Ortega, 41, has preached an message since first taking to the streets as a 13-year-old activist against a U.S.-backed Nicaraguan dictatorship. He can be expected to sound the theme again when he addresses the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Oct. 8. "He's not polished and smooth, but he's an effective public speaker," said a Western diplomat who has watched Ortega for several years.

"He doesn't exactly exude charm, but he does come across as a strong, determined leader, committed and passionate in his beliefs." "He has given us fits at times," acknowledged a Reagan administration official who, like the diplomat, would speak only on condition he not be further identified. "They (the Nicaraguan government) have See ORTEGA, 4A 'i ihh 1 1 Phil Sears Democrat Confronted by destruction After arriving home and finding her house destroyed by fire early Sunday, Ethel Crump cries out. Sister-in-law Dorothy Crump and Ed Freeman try to comfort her. No one was injured in the blaze, which occurred off Thompson Circle. Freeman, who said he was in the construction business, estimated the damage at $25,000.

New system will help decide who gets organs From Democrat wires Associated Press Jf gree in business management. "I'm glad they won't do it until I really need it." The two suffer from primary pulmonary hypertension, a condition in which the blood flow from the right side of the heart to the lungs is restricted by increased blood pressure in the lungs, eventually causing congestive heart failure. Victims can feel and look fine for years then sink within weeks, the fate of Patrizio's brother, Bob, who died in 1984 at age 33. With medical urgency a key criterion in the scoring system that becomes mandatory Oct. 1, Rowe is worried.

He says he's not sick enough yet to get a heart-lungs transplant under that standard. But once he is, he may be too weak to endure the grueling surgery, assuming organs suitable for his See TRANSPLANT, 4A PITTSBURGH They have the same disease, need the same transplant and know the frustrations of the same three-year wait, yet Frank Rowe questions a new national system for allocating precious organs and Terri Patrizio does not. The two, who need healthy hearts and lungs, and thousands who need other organs, have no choice but to wait, their futures on hold and their lives on the line. "My wife has the best line. She says she wishes I could wear myself inside out so people could see the physiology of my problem," said Rowe, 37, an industrial psychologist from Philadelphia who appears robust yet is dying.

"For me, I'd rather wait as long as I can," said Patrizio, 24, of nearby Plum, who's seeking a de Ticket holders go wild over flight cancellation MIAMI Stranded when their Eastern Airlines flight was canceled, nearly 200 ticket holders stormed a counter Sunday at Miami International Airport, and five people were arrested in what police called an "unmanageable situation." Eastern ticket clerks called for help just after 5 p.m. when an L-1011 flight scheduled to carry 317 passengers to New York's Kennedy Airport was canceled for mechanical reasons and a replacement Boeing 727 could only hold 149. "The rest were stranded, and that's when things got out of hand," said Eastern spokesman Robin Matell. "Apparently there was some fighting among the passengers to get on that plane." "When police arrived there were about 200 people crowding around the Eastern ticket booth, and some were in the restricted area behind the counter," said Metro-Dade police spokesman Ray Valdes. Ticket clerks turned the confrontation over to seven Metro-Dade officers, who told passengers and bystanders that they were trespassing and began escorting them out, Valdes said.

Associated Press Cross burning White-robed Ku Klux Klan members cir- gether for the rally under the leadership cle a burning cross in Rumford, Maine, of Imperial Wizard James Farrands, the on Saturday. Klan members came to- group's national chief. This year, Ethiopia isn't exporting pictures of starving children yet By Blaine Harden Washington Post The drought situation is more or less the same as it was in 1984. Brother Caesar Bullo distribution system and there is time. "If we can get food and send it outside to the farms, we can avoid the creation of the shelters where so many people died." Tigray and Eritrea, the two northernmost regions of Ethiopia, are again the hardest-hit parts of the country as drought has forced the government to appeal for nearly 1 million tons of international food aid.

A survey in August by a team from the U.S. Agency for International Development reported a total crop failure in Eritrea and a 75-percent crop failure in Tigray. The regions have a combined population of 5.1 million people. Thus far, most Eritreans and Tigrayans are thought to be in a predicament akin to that of Gebre, the farmer whose crops have failed and who says God is against him. He has little food left in his house from last year's good harvest.

His wife and four children are not yet See ETHIOPIA, 4A Advice 4B International 2A Classified 4C Local State 1C Comics 3B, 4B Obituaries 2C Editorials 8A Sports ID Features 1B Television 4B Horoscope 8C Theaters 2B MEKELE, Ethiopia Gebre Miriam Ehiwot has done what good Ethiopian farmers are supposed to do. When the rains came in May, he planted corn. When the rains failed in July and his corn died, he plowed it under and tried again. He planted teff, a short-season grain. But again the rain, after sputtering for 22 days in August, failed.

"From now onward, there is nothing to be harvested," the 46-year-old farmer said recently. He stood in a field of teff, which by mid-September should be knee-high and flowering. Instead, the spindly crop was three inches high. "It is hopeless," Gebre said. "God wants to punish us.

God is angry." Gebre's fields are in the highlands of Tigray, the heart of Ethiopia's famine region. Records dating back to 1890 show that every eight to 10 years, there is severe drought and famine in the rocky highlands. Tigrayan farmers like Gebre expect it. What they do not expect, what they ascribe to divine retribution, is that severe and widespread drought should strike just three years after the worst-of-the-century drought of 1984. About 1.4 million Tigrayans were destitute then.

More than 120,000 of them descended on the regional capital, Mekele. Starving, diseased and oddly passive, they died at a rate of more than 100 a day as they waited for someone to feed them. "The drought situation is more or less the same as it was in 1984," said Brother Caesar Bullo, who now, as then, coordinates emergency operations in Tigray for the Catholic Secretariat. "The difference is that this year there is a famine-relief structure. There is a food- If you have a story or photo idea, please call the Democrat between 9 a.m.

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