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tC TM Miami Nww Monday, August 21. 1978 President's mother taken for a ride in a hot limousine ART PETACQUE and HUGH HOUGH Chkaaa luw-Tlmes CHICAGO This will come a surprise to Lillian Carter, the President'! mother, but she was riding In a bot auto during her recent visit to Chicago. And we don't mean one without alr-condltloning. As Mrs. Carter cruised about Chicago's streets in an elogated Lincoln limousine, police received a report that it had been stolen from a leasing service.

Furthermore, the driver was arrested, along with a gun-carrying man who accompanied him, shortly after Mrs. Carter stepped from the auto for the final time during her visit last Sunday. The President's 80-year-old mother doesn't appear to have been In any danger. Rather, she unwittingly landed in the middle of a corporate dispute. Here's the story, as pieced together from police records and other sources: As on a previous visit by Mrs.

Carter, arrangements were made for her to lease a limousine. During a busy day here last Sunday, she traveled in the limousine with a Georgia state trooper as a bodyguard. Her lim ousine driver was Identified as Benjamin Burns, 21, of suburban Schiller Park. Burns was accompanied by Fred Pavllch, 35, of suburban Fox River Grove, who identified himself as a stockholder in the leasing firm. Now the report gets a bit sticky.

It seems the leasing firm Is in the process of being liquidated, and several associates in the firm felt Pavllch and Burns had no right to be using the limousine for the Carter assign-ment. So they filed the stolen auto report. The report was forwarded to a pair of Chicago police officers who had been assigned to escort Mrs. Car ter. They waited until she was settled in her hotel room, at day's end, then arrested Burns and Pavllch.

Limo driver Burns wis charged with criminal trespass to a vehicle. The same charge was placed against Pavllch, along with a second one unlawful use of a. weapon. (Police said he carried a revolver and claimed to be a private detective.) I Mrs. Carter rode to O'Hare Airport the next day In a Chicago police squad car rather than i limousine.

Police said the down-to-earth mother of the President seemed happy with the service and didn't Inquire about the absence of the limousine. l- Did moon spur the violence of last weekend? DARY MATERA Miami Hews ft" 4 Vf Promises at the ready Florida's seven Democratic candidates for governor offer something for everyone this year. Shown here sprucing up before they appeared on Channel 7's Florida Forum, most of the candidates opposed casino gambling, came out for tough law enforcement, backed regular law enforcement, said a businessman should run the state, said a politician should run the state and promised the elimination of property taxes, drastic cuts in property taxes, average and small cuts in property taxes. The hopefuls are (left to right, bottom row) Leroy Eden, Bob Graham, Claude Kirk and Robert Shevin. Top row, Bruce Smathers, Hans Tanzler and Jim Williams.

Tin Mlrt Nwt MICHELLE SOftC 1 Visually, It was a beautiful weekend. The fat, ripe moon came up just after sundown each night, a huge, Orange orb rising out of Biscayne Bay. It also was a violent weekend. Locally, four people were murdered; a man was killed In a police shootout; a mad dog was hit by a car, then shot; a train was derailed, and a fan was injured in a freak accident during a football game. Are these incidents connected? A Miami psychiatrist thinks they are and has written a book connecting the moon's cycles to human violence.

Other scientists scoff at the Idea. Many police officers, emergency room nurses and newspeople have long suspected the moon as a force for irrational behavior. Circumstantial evidence often bears them out. Scientists say a full moon has 72-hour life. Under the picture-postcard moon last weekend, these events occurred: After a fight, a running Elton James Jenrette, 18, was cut off by three Metro police officers Friday near 7410 NW 19th St.

Instead of giving up, police said, the youth turned and fired a .357 magnum at them. All three officers returned fire and a single bullet struck Jenrette in the head, killing him instantly. t. -t le1- vi -A 7f A I- 'i An enraged German shepherd, hit by a car, bit a woman who went to its aid, sending her to the hespital Friday with hand and stomach bites. North IMjaml detectives chased the animal In the area of NE 130th Street and 13th Avenue for an hour before kill' Ing it with a shotgun blast.

An overzealous fan scrambling for a football de layed the nationally televised Miami Dolphlns-Minneso-'ta Vikings pre-season game in the Orange Bowl for 15 minutes when he fell on a fence and dislocated his Raiders take swipe at medical records secrecy Chlc95uw-Tlmti urnrriaA 1oc ahnut thMr liPalth after thfiV had a clian the of their worried less about their health after they had a chance knee. barriers to rights patients to see records Saturday, after an altercation in northwest Miami, Jiles Baker, 30, was found shot to death in a Ralph Nader's raiders have taken a swipe at anoth parking lot at NW 17th Avenue and 68th Street. er sacred bastion of the medical profession the traditional veil of secrecy thrown over a person's health records. Saturday morning, James Edward Williams, 42, was murdered. Williams' body was found in the rear of a residence at 3034 NW 46th St.

Nader's Washington-based Health Research Group A small plane hit a windmill and crashed in a Tfiery explosion Saturday in a South Dade avocado grove. The two Homestead natives aboard the craft has published a consumer guide entitled "Getting Yours" to tell patients how to get 'their own medical files from hospitals and doctors. to read their own medical records. For patients In federal hospitals and tinder care In states where there are access laws, the Nader group said these steps can be taken: Check the provisions of the state law Itself to see what it covers and whether it makes specific exclusions for certain types of information. If the records are in a federal facility, a request should be made under the Privacy Act.

Check to see what facilities are available to copy the records. Once the file has been opened, take notes or copy important entries. If terminology is too technical, arrange for an Independent physician to review the records or contact a patients' rights group. If a health center specifically covered under an access law still refuses to make the records available, consider a lawsuit. and the guide reports that half of the SO states still have not enacted statutes that guarantee a patient's right of access to files.

Ted Bogue, a Nader lawyer who edited the guide, said, "Access to their own files will give patients information sufficient for them to participate in their own health care and to evaluate what the doctor is doing to them." "If your record showed that you had an allergic response to a certain drug in the past, you would know not to consent to its use in the future," the Nader guide says. "If it is discovered after you have been treated that a drug may have produced ill side effects, you should be entitled to examine your record to determine whether you were given that drug." Nearly all of the subjects in one study said they burned to death. The guide details procedures a patient may use to A car driven by a North Miami policeman plunged into a canal off 1-95 Saturday during a chase in extract records from wherever they are kept and challenges doctors' traditional fears that patients will find the records incomprehensible, misleading and scary. which a traffic offender tried to force the pursuing of ficer into a concrete guardrail. The officer was slightly The guide reviews the state laws protecting a pa injured, but his car was destroyed.

The offender, identi- lied as Spencer Booker, so, was arrested. tient's rights to see his or her own medical chart, finding Illinois, Colorado and Massachusetts the most progressive. But the Nader group contends there are still Yesterday, an early-morning argument between, Thomas Nelson, 53, and Mary Jane Miller, 56, both of 441 NW 7th ended with Nelson's being stabbed to death. Miami police have charged Miller with first-de sree murder. An unidentified black woman, 20 to 25, was found shot to death on a canal bank at SW 344th Street and 97th Avenue.

Five railroad cars and three diesel engines head it Ing north on tracks paralleling 27th Avenue derailed yesterday. A pipe wedged into a rail switch is believed '16. have caused the accident. No one was injured but 96X manager reports attempt to buy good Arbitron ratings traffic along NW 27th Avenue and 71st Street was snarled for some time. Investigators are calling it Six years ago, Miami psychiatrist Arnold Lieber SHERRY WOODS TVRidio Editor studied 2,000 Dade County homicides over 15 years.

Lieber discovered homicide frequencies peaked signifi cantly at the times of the full and new moons. A study in Cleveland produced almost identical results. Lieber is the first to admit his findings are not con elusive. In "The Lunar Effect," he says, "If you think 'of violence as a big American apple pie and you want to know what size is the slice attributable to the Influ ence of the moon, I would say It would be no more than 2 or 3 per cent. But when one considers the total popu-latlon of the world, this amounts to a significant abso lute number of violent acts." The diary holders Involved were two young men in the 18-24 age range and their parents, in the 45-49 and 55-64 demographic ranges.

Those categories will be revised to discount the questionable diaries. Hodgson describes the incident as disgust ing.r' "There was no need for It. We're doing all the right things to get this station back on track. This was an unfortunate distraction," he said, Hodgson was equally distressed by the re action of Arbitron officials, who, he said, laughed when he made his report and sug gested he should have kept it to himself. "That's not the way I Intend to run this place," he said.

He declined to name the three station staffers involved in the Incident, but con firmed that all have left or been fired. Hodgson has had no word from Arbitron on whether it intends to instigate any legal proceedings and spokesmen for the company in New York confirmed that they had made no decision. In yet another blow to its attempt to rebuild its image, WMJX-FM (96X) has been fixing the most recent Arbitron ratings survey by "buying" four local diaries. Station general manager Morton Hodgson III discovered the fix and reported it to the rating company. As a result of the company investigation, which showed that $3,000 to $5,000 in stereo, equipment was given to a family holding four Arbitron diaries, the May books for Miami and for Miami-Fort Lauderdale will be revised.

The effect on the survey will be minimal, even though the affected books were "loaded" In favor of 96X, a spokesman for Arbitron in New York says. The weekly cumulative audience for the station will come down only 3,100 listeners and the average quarter-hour audience will decline only 200. The station's over-all share will be affected only slightly, if at all. In short, Lieber believes the moon's effect on the body's biological tides causes mood changes and bllity. "In persons already predisposed toward aberrant behavior or violence, the biological high tide can act as a stress trigger that releases irrational outbursts," he says.

Lieber cites five of the eight Son of Sam murders, Ji--- i Patty Hearst's kidnaping and Sarah Moore's attempt to shoot former President Ford as occurring during a 72- hour full-moon period. Despite many policemen's opinions to the contrary, 4 15 most departments show little official concern for lunar happenings. At Metro police, where an article about crime rising during a full moon stayed on the public relations office bulletin board for months, shift commander Lt. Jerry Zimmerman said, "I have heard that for years but it doesn always bear out." Fifth of U.S. Latins live in poverty Zimmerman suggested a detailed study of crime statistics and how they correlate with the lunar cycle would be needed in order to draw conclusions.

Associated Press After his research, Lieber asked the National Instl Associated Press Smooth rido tute of Law Enforcement for funds three times but was turned down. His goal is to enable police departments fire departments and rescue squads to beef up staffs during critical lunar stages and set up educational pro- grams to teach people how to tell when It's dangerous About 700,000 people of Cuban origin live in the United States, half of them in Miami. The median age of the country's 12 million people of Latin origin was 22.1 last March, compared with 30 for the remainder of the population, the report said. Fifty-eight per cent of employed Latin-origin men had blue-collar Jobs last March, the report said, and 24 per cent had white-collar jobs. Thirteen per cent were service workers in such places as hospitals and restaurants.

WASHINGTON Twenty-one per cent of this country's Latin American-origin families had incomes below the poverty line last year, the Census Bureau says. This compares with about 9 per cent of the non-Latin families, the bureau reported yes-' terday. Only 9.7 per cent of the Latin-origin families had incomes of $25,000 or more, compared with 23 per cent of other families. drink, drive or handle a weapon. "I let my data speak for itself," he said recently, 'There is no use defending lt.

The lay public accepts it, This may be one way to absorb the shock of a bumpy ride in a small car. Actually Jodi Mullen, of Sudbury, is taking it easy (she's probably all tired out) while waiting for friends in Gay Head that's on Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts. Jodi was on her way to the beach yesterday when this picture was taken. However, she got inside the car for the ride to the beach. Scientists who are biased are not going to be con vinced, no matter what I or anybody else says.

If i only to their own detriment to reject it." 'People cried and jumped over each other' in burning theater fcomblmd Miami Newt lervlcet the government said killed 377. It was assumed the fire was the work of ultra-conservative Moslem fanatics. The fanatics oppose the Shah's reform programs and demand all public entertainment be shut down during the holy month of Ramadan, now in progress. Since Ramadan began Aug. 8, they have made bomb or arson attacks on movie houses, restaurants, nightclubs, banks and private and public buildings.

Officials say several of those arrested were carrying explosives. Two employes of the movie house were among the suspects, and the owner was arrested for "negligence," because to save money he did not heed police instructions to hire more guards. The search for more victims in the charred theater continued yesterday as many of the victims, their bodies burned beyond recognition, were buried. Police said families were wiped out. It was a hot, muggy night in Abadan, an oil-refining city of 335,000 on the northern tip of the Persian Gulf.

The crowd had gathered at the Rex Theater to see the Persian-language film "The Deer" and to escape the heat in the air-conditioned hall. Iranians often attend movies to escape the heat. The reactionary Moslems stepped up their paign about eight months ago to oppose the Shah's reforms that emancipated women and moved control of massive tracts of farmland from Moslem leaders to peasants. About 1 00 have been reported killed In riots opposing the reforms. The Shah pledged to crush the riots and continue the reforms.

An angry crowd of 2,000 gathered outside the no lice station a Jiaif block from the theater yesterday to demand the expulsion of the religious leaders. Radio Tehran announced a period of national mourning. All theaters in the country were closed yesterday. All businesses in Abadan were closed as relatives and friends of the dead attended funerals or memorial services. Empress Farah ordered the provincial governor to meet with families of the dead and determine their ur gent needs so charitable organizations which she heads could supply; them.

But Prime Minister Jamshid. Amuzegar said the tragedy would not deter the reform program. All the country's major religious leaders except one issued condemnations of the massacre. The silent exception was Ayatullah Khomaini, an exile in Iraq since 1963. He fled the country after campaigning against the Shah's land-reform program because it provided for the sale or lease to the peasants of the vast landholdings of the mosques.

Since, then, his supporters have carried on an anti-ShahVcampaign which in the past eight months has become increasingly violent and in which about 100 people have been killed. Since Ramadan started Aug. 8, extremist religious leaders have been addressing rallies throughout the nation urging Iranians to attend prayer sessions at mosques instead of watching movies or television and not to eat in restaurants. Reports from Abadan said the fire followed such a meeting there. At least six theater fires have been attributed to the extremists since Ramadan started.

Ramadan is a month of fasting during daylight hours for devout Moslems. The extremists, who seek a ban on all alcohol, in keeping with Moslem teachings, also have wrecked liquor stores, nightclubs and restaurants. ABDAN, Iran "In total darkness, with the rest of the happy spectators, was watching the beginning of Ihe movie when suddenly I heard noise from the back and smelled smoke and then saw flames, all in minutes I "People cried and jumped over each other as 'they tried to escape." The speaker, Gholam-Hussein Nemayandeh, 20, 'was one of a handful of survivors of the theater fire that killed at least 377 people Saturday. I An Iranian newspaper, in an unconfirmed report, 430 died in the fire. The paper, Ettelaat, said only 200 of the badly burned bodies have been identified so 'far.

Nemayandeh told the Tehran newspaper Ettelaat 'that the fire broke out "from all sides of the hall," and spectators trying to escape found the only exit closed. Many were trampled in the panic, he said, adding that he and nine others found an exit to the roof. Au-' thorities said between 20 and 40 people survived the blaze. Ten suspects have been arrested in the fire which.