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Tuesday, August 9, 1988 The Miami News J7A tate sEhnrugs oifff.lb Noriega befriends Ortega AlSOf lfttd Pf9 ELLEN HAMPTON Miami NnCoi Nawi Mrvlc Ierfno Bedregal said both bombings were the work of cocaine traffickers. In Washington, the State Department said a team of U.S. agents would fly to Bolivia today to help officials investigate the bombing. After giving a talk entitled "Winning The War Against Narcotics" at a La Paz hotel last night, Shultz left through a back exit under extremely tight security and was driven to the airport for a flight to Costa Rica. This time, the airport road was cordoned off.

In his talk to government officials and business leaders, Shultz praised Bolivia's cooperation with the United States in recent anti-drug efforts. The blast ruptured a tire and blew out three windows, including one next to Shultz's wife, Helena, who was not riding with her husband. Another bomb went off at dawn yesterday at the U.S. Embassy commissary in La Paz. No injuries were reported in either blast.

Police said the roadway bomb, believed to be several sticks of dynamite, was set off by someone on a hill overlooking the road seconds after Shultz's car passed. The blast tore up pavement and threw rocks across the road. There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but Foreign Minister Guil- with Nicaragua's Sandinista government until after he left office. Now the Nicaraguans will fly to Quito the day after the inauguration. The Ecuador-Nicaragua split, Ortega told reporters at the airstrip, was fostered by the United States.

Ortega and Noriega reviewed Panamanian troops, with Noriega's appointed civilian president, Manuel Solis Palma, standing between them. Ortega said his visit to Panama was aimed at strengthening solidarity between the two nations. The Nicaraguans and the Panamanians, he said, share positions of persecution in the hemispheric strata of "the imperial against the weak." LA PAZ, Bolivia Secretary of State George Shultz, unscathed by a bomb attack blamed on cocaine traffickers, later praised Bolivian efforts he said have put drug lords on the run In this cradle of coca cultivation. The U.S. envoy, whoso visit was Intended In part to express U.S.

support for Bolivia's stepped up anti-drug efforts, told reporters he was not "intimidated by the tactic of using violence to try to scare government officials." A remote-controlled bomb damaged three cars in Shultz's 11-vehicle motorcade as he drove to La Paz from the airport yesterday. PANAMA CITY, Panama Nicara-guan President Daniel Ortega, In growing isolation from fellow Latin Ameri-cans, is reaching for support from another political pariah Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega. Ortega arrived in Panama yesterday aboard a Cubana Airlines jet for a three-day visit. It had been planned as a one-day stop for Nicaragua's delegation to tomorrow's inauguration of a new president in Ecuador.

But outgoing Ecuadoran President Leon Febres Cor-dero sent word that the Nicaraguans could not enter the country which In 1985 was the first Latin nation to break Englishmen are celebrating birth of their new princess Astoclatad frtf rang and cameras flashed outside Portland Hospital in central London with the announcement last night of the birth of a 6-pound, 12-ounce girl to the former Sarah Ferguson. Andrew, the Duke of York and second son of the monarch, drove his 28-year-old wife from their country home yesterday LONDON Bouquets, banner headlines and a wave of good wishes today greeted the news of a newborn Princess of York, first child of Prince Andrew and his wife, Sarah, and fifth grandchild of Queen Elizabeth II. Champagne corks popped, bells A LAWYERS, from 5A i 0, the planning stages, canvassed dozens of lawyers who were potential tenants. "They were talking about a gym and asking people if they'd like one, and I said, 'Well, are you going to have a day-care And they looked at me like I was totally insane." But not every law firm in Miami sidetracks the careers of lawyers who are mothers. Gail Serota, who practices real-estate law at Stearns Weaver, Miller Weissler Alhadeff Sitter-son, was made a partner shortly after she returned from a paid maternity leave.

She also Is permitted to work flexible hours, giving her more time to spend with her children, ages 4 and 18 months. "This has always been a very humane place to work," she said. "There are 12 women here out of A.1 1 tirrorc a nH ainht ft tfiam a a who had every type of policy from allowing people to take accumulated sick leaves to three months off with pay, which is the most generous policy I know of." At many Dade law firms, the prevailing belief is that having a family gets in the way of being a good lawyer, said Barr, a mother of two. Jean Perwin, a sole practitioner specializing in trademark law has two school-age children. She remembers that when she moved to Miami from Washington, D.C., eight years ago and began interviewing for jobs, ail of her potential employers asked how she planned to juggle work and home.

"Nobody would ask that of a man," Perwin said. Perwin found Miami firms offered fewer options to women with children than those in Washington and they still do, although they're beginning to catch up, shr said. While more firms have maternity leave policies on the books or in the planning stages, none have day-care centers in their buildings, she said. At a cocktail party a few years ago, she recalled, some of the developers for the downtown Museum Tower, which was still in Th Miami Html A G. MONTANANI Reporting for duty partners," said Serota, who often goes home, spends the evening with her children, then goes back to the office once they are in bed.

"I don't think that people here have been penalized because they choose to have children, but I know it happens in other places. It's a tough issue. I don't know if it will ever be resolved to everybody's satisfaction." Miami Police Department is hosting the statewide competition, which began Sunday and continues through Saturday. Police dog Wolf-Co takes part in Police Canine Association field trials at Curtis Park under the watchful eye of his master. Homestead Officer Tom Pritchett.

The Tom Jicha Ail new rules coming for Channel 6 TV Radio Editor JIM STEINBERG Miami Nwl Haertr Channel 7 has a lot of getting ready to do TOMJICHA Miami Nn TVRadia Editor LOS ANGELES WSVN seems determined not to make the same Channel 7 faces a tremendous programming transition and a search for alternatives to the network shows it no longer will carry. Frank Martin, media director for Harris Drury Advertising in Oakland Park, said the changes aren't likely to have any long-range effect on advertising rates. South Florida still has the same number of stations and is served by the same networks. Advertisers may shift their budgets around to different channels, but if they plan to buy TV time, they will continue to do so. Myer Berlow, a partner with Beber Silverstein Partners Advertising in Miami, said the changes couldn't have happened at a worse time for network television.

"Following the writers' strike, people are already sampling independents and cable television at unprecedented levels," Berlow said. By adding confusion to the pot, the trend can only intensify, he said. new philosophy and "management style of NBC. Meanwhile, Channel 6 employees will be confronted with the demands of a new owner and their first network affiliation. And by working for the new independent channel, Channel 7 employees will face the competitive South Florida market without popular NBC network programming.

"The last thing I would want today is to be an independent in Miami," said Ed Atorino, a media analyst with Smith Barney, Harris Upham Co. in New York. "The market is so fragmented. The two new Spanish Independent channels (WSCV-Channel 51 and WLTV-Channel 23) take such a large chunk out of it." Channel 6 is facing the "double-wham-my" adjustment that will hit everyone at the station, from news production to advertising sales, Garwood said. It must reposition itself in the market and beef up its news and community affairs departments, Garwood said, adding, "They are going to have to move quickly." mistake twice.

South Florida TV turmoil will confuse viewers, confound advertisers and disrupt the lives of many TV workers. But viewers soon will figure out where their favorite show has gone. And advertisers will buy time anyway. It's the employees who won't adjust so quickly. "The internal turmoil is going to be far greater than what happens in the (advertising) market," said John Garwood, general manager of WPLG-Channel 10.

The ABC affiliate is the only Miami station not changing its network allegiance next year. CBS announced yesterday it would buy WCIX-Channel 6 for $59 million, ending lengthy speculation about where that network would end up next year when NBC leaves WSVN-Channel 7 for a new home at WTVJ-Channel 4, the current CBS affiliate. In January, when the changes take effect, Channel 4 employees will face the Ed Ansin, owner of the station, said yesterday 7's priority is to prepare to become an independent station Jan. 2. Ansin said Jicha TV, from 1 A 6 If I've got to have a guy fighting for my livelihood, I want Ed Ansin.

I've stuck it out here working for the guy because I like it here. If anyone can make it fly, he can. Channel 7 features reporter Dan Tasciotti I'm sticking around. They've been good to me." Channel 4 workers took news of the deal in stride. Their future had been assured months ago, they said, when NBC bought their station, effectively ending a longtime affiliation with CBS.

Several Channel 4 employees said speculation centered on which, if any, anchors will sink when NBC takes over Jan. 1. Channel 4 anchor John Ham-brick was at the center of speculation because at his last NBC affiliate stint as a WNBC-TV anchor in New York City he was fired. He also is planning to sell his home. Hambrick said the home will be put on the market soon so he and his wife can move to a condominium now that their children are grown and gone.

"There's not a change that's taken place that I would feel negatively about at all," he said. "I think it's a positive thing. I feel very positively about everything that's happening. There's been every indication that NBC Is coming in In full force." Hambrick's optimism could hang on the fact that his Channel 4 contract was renewed in April for three more years. he still hasn't determined what if any actions he will take to attempt to block the purchase of WCIX-Channel 6 by CBS, which will leave WSVN without a network affiliation.

"We have a lot of time to think about that," he said. In the meantime, he will not count on such actions to prevent his station from losing its network partnership. It was his belief that the CBS sale never would happen, which contributed to the predicament in which WSVN finds itself. Because of Ansin's oft-stated expectation that "we will be an affiliate of NBC or CBS on Jan. 2," WSVN docs not have anything approaching the inventory necessary to program a station 24 hours a day without network support.

Ansin said yesterday the situation might not be so grave as it seems. "There is a presumption that the only way to program an independent station is with wall-to-wall sitcoms. I don't think that's going to be our approach." For instance, WSVN plans to retain its two-hour news block between 5 and 7 p.m. Of those independent stations that offer news at all, most restrict themselves to one program daily at 10 p.m. WSVN will adhere to this pattern and move its late newscast up an hour from 1 1 p.m.

when the switches occur Jan. 2. One of the reasons for the paucity of news on independents is that more ambitious efforts in other markets have ended in failure. There seems to be a mind-set among viewers that network affiliates are for news and independents are for alternatives. Ansin said he doesn't think this will be the case in Miami because of WSVN's news presence in the community.

"We have a tradition and an image we're not going to give up," Ansin said. It must be speculated that some of this talk is for the benefit of his demoralized news department. News Director Joel Cheatwood, who is on vacation and could not be reached, said after arriving in town this past winter that Ansin had made him "a blood oath" that WSVN would not be left without an affiliation. He said it was the Channel 7 features reporter Dan Tasciotti, a nine-year veteran, offered this comment: "I say damn the torpedos, full speed ahead If I've got to have a guy fighting for my livelihood, I want Ed Ansin. I've stuck it out here working for the guy because I like it here.

If anyone can make it fly, he can." Rick Sanchez only recently returned to Channel 7 after leaving the station for a Houston job in 1986.. "I think it's unfair, a horrible thing to happen to an extremely nice guy and a good friend," the "Live at Five" anchor said of Ansin. "I was really disappointed, I wanted him to fight this thing and he's basically saying he's not. I expected him to say there's no way they'd allow this to happen. I'm really shocked.

For right now, Ed Ansin only way he would have considered accepting the job. To buck up morale and possibly forestall a rush to the exits WSVN still must put on several newscasts a day until January Ansin suggested yesterday that WSVN could be doing so many local public affairs shows as an independent that it might Increase the size of its news staff. His good Intentions notwithstanding, anyone with experience in television who accepts this prediction at face value would have given up a spot in one of the Titanic's lifeboats because the captain was about to announce the next day's deck activities. The vultures were hovering over WSVN even before yesterday's announcement that CBS had indeed reached agreement to buy WCIX. WSVN General Manager Bob Leider said syndicators and other stations looking to get out of commitments started calling him Friday, offering him programs.

Common sense tells you the kind of shows being dangled in front of Leider. With six English-language commercial stations in South Florida, if a program were assessed as having any promise, it wouldn't still be on a syndicator's shelf, and rival stations aren't about to surrender something that might be used to out-rate their own shows. This, too, might be a factor in WSVN's announced intentions to retain a heavy news presence In the foreseeable future. One of the few potentially worthwhile offers came from the Fox network, which Ansin said had gotten in touch with him. Fox, which has been linked to Channel 6, offers only 10 12 hours a week "The Late Show" weeknights, two hours Saturdays and 3'2 hours Sundays.

A third night of prime time, most likely filled by a movie, is planned to debut next spring. White and Channel 4's Tony Segretto -even Channel 10's Ann Bishop, whose station is not involved in the changes. "If anything happens to (Channel 6 anchor) Barbara Sloan just before she has her child, that would be terrible," said Linett Harrison, 23, holding a year-old son. She paused. "Who knows what's going to happen next? But it's keeping everybody wondering.

This is like Miami's own soap opera." Another Channel 7 anchor, who didn't want to be identified, said some staffers headed for the phones to start looking for job leads as soon as the station's 3 p.m. staff meeting announcing the sale concluded. "(Station owner Ed) Ansin said, 'We've run into a wave of bad He said that in about 30 days we wiH have a game plan drawn out as to how they will deal with this. But we will not make wholesale changes and no bloodbath. 'CBS has made a big mistake' were the first words out of his mouth." Renick, a Miami broadcast newsman since 1949, who came out of retirement to join the Channel 6 staff in April, said the change could be good news for his jtation.

Renick said that, In a staff meeting, Eric Ober, president of CBS-owned TV stations, announced that the station would expand its news programming to include early-evening news. Asked if there was any indication in the meeting that Channel 6 employees should be concerned about their futures, Renick said the attitude was "the old story. If you're doing your job well, you don't have to worry." That was the theory held by Tim Melton, a Channel 6 assistant production manager, who said, "I feel that I have no problems getting laid off because I do well at what I do." Melton, a 12-year station veteran, said the staff had heard rumors of a sale, and had heard that CBS' negotiations with Channel 6 were simply a bluff to intensify the network's dealings with Channel 7, which, until last week, was considered the station likely to be bought. "We were hoping that it wasn't a bluff," Melton said. Later in the afternoon, Channel 6 reporter Bryan Glazer was sent to gather comments from Channel 7 workers.

But, in a twist worthy of Kafka, Glazer said he was not permitted to say anything about the changes at his station under orders from his superiors. The reaction he got was mixed. "We're still employed and happy to be here," offered Ray Burgos, a Channel 7 engineer for the past 10 years. Tom Martin, who has worked on Channel 7 electronic graphics for more than three' years, wasn't worried, either. "I'm really not too concerned," said the recent first-time homeowner and father of a 2-year-old son.

"I'm going to ride the storm. The whole situation's in God's hands." Cesar Aldana, a Channel 7 tape editor, took the same approach: "Right now I'll Just stay to see what happens. This is my first job. (Ansin) said everything will work out. I'm pretty confident." 1 WJMUi umfflffltMim! rt.