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A A cosmic gathering for 8-8-88 ic High-priced Strode to shop around ib Departure saddens teammates 40 How Florida's numbers fall Will Wynn's lottery analysis 4A 5f Jrw 1jsww': t.eHBpfe wwspw' METRO EDITION Tuesday, August 9, 1988 TV ffBop-iitop loDce Rffliainniii's owoi soap peirs)' x. IT" (Channel 6). then I'll watch that one. I love John. He tells me the straight up." Oswald Geddes, 44, a construction worker, quickly jumped in.

"I'll go with Sally, wherever she Is," he said, referring to Channel 7's Sally Fitz. "I can watch her news, and then switch the channel to whoever's got Alf and Cosby and the rest of those (NBC) shows I watch I've watched Sally Fitz for years." Others wondered what will happen to Channel 6's Ralph Renick, Channel 7's Denise Please see TV, 7A It was a wacky day to work for a Miami TV station. CBS bought Independent station Channel 6 for $59 million. Channel 7, which had been negotiating to become a CBS affiliate, yesterday suddenly found itself an independent station. All this followed the January 1987 purchase of former CBS affiliate Channel 4 by General Electric, NBC's parent company.

Meanwhile, at a downtown jitney stop, just south of the Channel 4 studios, a group of waiting riders clustered around as a man read aloud a Miami News story about the TV changes. The following Miami News reporters contributed to this report: Mike Ward, Paul Lomartire, Bonnie Anderson and Tom Jicha. They agonized over the fate of their favorite anchors speaking of them as if they were family, not TV personalities. "What will happen to John and Susan?" asked Jenette Louis, referring to Channel 4's anchors, John Hambrick and Susan Lichtman. "John is my boy," she said, clutching her two small children.

"If he goes with (CBS) to 1 Sanchez: 'It's unfair' White: 'Big surprise' Hambrick: Renick: 'Positive thing' The old story' Lebanese admits he's TWA hijacker, but denies killing Anoctaitd Pmi FRANKFURT, West Germany Mohammed Hamadi, on trial for air piracy and murder In the 1985 TWA hijacking, today admitted for the first time that he was one of the four hijackers, but said it was not he who killed the American sailor. Thirty-nine Americans were held captive for 17 days, and U.S. Navy diver Robert Stethem was killed during the ordeal. The Lebanese Shiite Moslem made his confession in the last court session before a summer recess. "If this act which I committed is against the law, then it is a result of illegal conduct on the part of Israel," Hamadi, speaking in Arabic, said through an interpreter.

While the United States and West Germany had said Hamadi was one of the four, there previously had remained questions about a precise identification from photographs taken at the scene. JOHN H. CUSHMAN Jr. Mw Yrfc Tim Nwt torvlct contracts worth a total of $54.3 billion for a wide variety of products. The report provides detailed evidence that excessive charges by military contractors are commonplace, even if individual cases are rarely made public.

Although the margins of overpricing are usually slim, and the excess charges represent a small Please see PENTAGON. 4A The report describes what appears to be the most comprehensive coordinated examination ever conducted by federal auditors of the pricing of military contracts. During the audits, which began in July 1984, officials of the Defense Contract Audit Agency and the Inspector general's office reviewed contracts held by 460 divisions of 95 contractors. They examined WASHINGTON A four-year Investigation by Pentagon auditors discovered repeated overcharges totaling hundreds of millions of dollars on military contracts by 95 suppliers, according to a confidential report by the Defense Department inspector general's office. Hard bargaining alfoead vor Aran, lrac Aiwcatd Prtss New book on John Lennon hits some real sour notes John Lennon can't be resting in peace these days.

A new 719-page biography of the slain rock star drives another nail in the coffin of the Beatle legend. "The Lives of John Lennon," by Columbia University professor Albert Goldman, offers an intimate look at the man who was the driving force of the world's most successful rock group. Goldman alleges that: A ft Lennon and Yoko Ono were heroin junkies, with Yoko stoking a habit before her husband was slain in 1980. Lennon, toward the end of his life, was a skeletal anorexic, often stickina his finaers John Lennon down his throat to make BAGHDAD, Iraq The three' weeks of haggling over conditions for an Iran-Iraq cease-fire are omens of hard bargaining ahead as the war foes plunge into the process of peace after eight years of fighting. Diplomats in Baghdad say that while a cease-fire may halt the shooting fairly soon, efforts to keep the guns silent could stretch on for years.

It took three weeks for U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar to win agreement on truce conditions after both sides finally agreed In principle to a cease-fire. The agreement was announced yesterday that guns will be laid down Aug. 20. Peace talks to end the deadliest military conflict since World War II will begin five days later in Geneva.

"The restoration of peace will bring to the peoples of both countries victories far greater than those of war," Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar said yesterday in announcing the truce. The Security Council meets today to authorize a 350-man unarmed U.N. peacekeeping force to monitor a cease-fire and troop withdrawals. "I have been assured by the two parties to the conflict that they will observe this cease-fire in the context of the full implementation of Resolution 598," the Security Council's comprehensive peace plan, said Perez de Cuellar. Potential problems lie ahead at jmi CtCbcu- I I I 1 himself retch up food; Goldman says Lennon began starving himself after a critic called him the "fat Beatle." Lennon became a hermit In his apartment building in Manhattan, sleeping with two spotlights on over his bed because he was afraid of the dark.

After Lennon married Yoko, he became childlike, calling her "Mommy," conversing in baby talk, Because of his phobia about germs, Lennon took a dozen baths a day and was a compulsive hand-washer. Please see GULF. 4A Auoclatd Pratt 1M2 Rubble litters streets of Iranian town of Khorramshar. a testimony to the eight-year war Quote unquote Lauren Bacall, asked why she's still making movies at the age of 64: "The minute you reach an age, you're supposed to disappear. I hate it when people say to me, 'Are you still Am I walking! Breathing?" Loser's corner welcomes Seagram's wine coolers.

The Seagram Co. hoped to give its coolers a much-needed shot in the arm (sales of all wine coolers are lukewarm, at best, these days) by becoming an official sponsor of the 1988 U.S. Olympic team. But when it comes to sweet, fizzy wines, the Olympic committee is a bunch of blue-noses. Ruling that an alcoholic beverage would not be the proper image for our young athletes, the committee rejected Seagram as a sponsor.

Joe Modzelewskl Low-key U.ll. chief known for diligence GULF DAMAGE: Lloyd's, the London CASUALTIES: More than 1 million people were killed or wounded. Anthony Cordesman savs in his Si i Vl reported 90 ships sunk or destroyed In the UNITED NATIONS Javier Perez de Cuellar Is mild of manner book "The Iran-Iraq War and Western Security," that at least 300,000 Iranians were killed and 600,000 wounded through 1987, with corresponding figures for Iraq of 120,000 and 300,000. Persian Gulf and 546 attacked, with at least 300 sailors killed and 300 Injured. A report by Klyotakl Tsuji of the Japanese Institute of Middle East Economic Studies estimated that damage to oil installations alone, from bombing and shelling raids, amounted to $28 billion for Iran and $8 billion for Iraq.

Our 93rd year serving South Florida 34 pages 198S. The Miami Newi and would not boast of his diplomatic skill, but he had reason for pride when he announced a cease-fire In the Persian Gulf war. The Iran. CIVILIANS: Among the casualties, thousands of innocents were killed by bombs and surface-to-surface EMM EMI western Africa and the Western Sahara have asked the world organization to find ways of ending their wars without a defeat for any party. The soft-spoken diplomat from Peru, 68, is known for discretion and diligence.

He likes to quote the French aphorism "Le ton fait la chanson," which means the melody makes the song, not a loud voice. Perez de Cuellar's diplomatic successes in Afghanistan and the gulf contrast with his early disappointment in the 74-day Falkland Islands war between Argentina and Britain. It was fought in 1982, the year after he became U.N. chief executive. The secretary-general tried to create harmony between Britain and Argentina as London's fleet of warships steamed toward the Please see PROFILE, 4A MILITARY EXPENSES: Estimates of military equipment purchases for the war, above normal pre-war Twilbysays: Low tonight mid to upper 70s missiles that struck hospitals, schools and residential areas in Tehran, Baghdad and other cities.

expenditures vary, from $25 billion to $40 billion for Iran and from $35 billion to $70 billion for Iraq. Paying, feeding and treating wounded soldiers added billions more to war expenditures. ECONOMIC COSTS: Hundreds of billions of dollars In lost revenues, damaged and destroyed Iraq war is the Porei de Cuellar latest in several seemingly Intractable conflicts for which the United Nations has been asked to help find a solution. The Soviet Union is withdrawing its estimated 115,000 soldiers from a 10-year-old civil war In Afghanistan under a U.N.-mediuted agreement signed April 14. Combatants In Cambodia, south Classified 5C Columns 11 A Comics 4C Deaths 4A Editorials 10A Lifestyle 1C Local BA Money 8A Movies 3C Racing Green 4B Sports 1B TV 6A buildings, industrial plants, ships and military equipment.

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