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2A two words police families fear Cop sh11 ELLEN HAMPTON $pecial to The Miami News said. "It's like the whole world crumbles around you. You don't know what you can do." Piedra, 28, said he Is feeling angry, frustrated and a little guilty. "I wish I had been there, and at the same time I'm glad I wasn't," he said. "Maybe I could have seen something he might have missed.

I don't know. You feel like you could have done something about it." Sgt. Bill Garrison, Metro-Dade Police assistant for psychological services, said the feelings are common: anger, depression, guilt. He calls them 6 When any officer goes its a bad feeling. It's like the whole world crumbles around you.

You don't know what you can do 9 i Miami Officer Octavio Piedra 12-gauge shotgun that killed three others, Piedra requested guard duty outside his hospital room. Mendez was in stable but serious condition yester- day at Jackson Memorial Hospital. "We grew up together, we rode together for two years, we hang out together off-duty, Piedra Cop shot. That's the first thing police families hear, not who or how bad. Just shot.

It sets their stomachs on ice. "They hear an officer's hit and they think, They get pretty torn up," said Metro-Dade Police Capt. Larry Foreman. This week, three families learned that the cop shot was theirs: Miami Officer J.C. Mendez, shot Monday while off-duty, outside his apartment; Metro officers William Paul Wessel and Steve Ellison, shot yesterday while securing a house for a I search warrant to be served.

"When any officer goes down. it's a bad feel- Ing," said Miami Officer Octavio Piedra. When the officer is a husband, a sister, a son or a best friend, it's a nightmare. After Mendez was shot, hit with a round from a I warrant to be served. 1 i When any officer goes down, it's a bad feel- said Miami Officer Octavio Piedra.

'hen the officer is a husband, a sister, a son or I friend, it's a nightmare. 1 fter Mendez was shot, hit with a round from a I Please see POLICE, 4A r. era 1 7 deplrOSd (0) Elc1E1 MARVA YORK Montt News Reporter Miami News Reporter Zap! Crackle! Pop! These gizmos drive her buggy Looking for peace and quiet? Try Iowa City (90 miles west of Davenport, 140 miles north of Keokuk). No crime, no pollution, no nothing. How peaceful and quiet is Iowa City? This peaceful and 111i quiet: Bug zappers, those elec.

tronic thingamajigs that zap flying bugs in mid-air, have been deemed too noisy for Iowa cClittyy 1s a Iowa 41111,011:11 proposal by upstanding citizen Vida Brenner to bar the elec- tronic zappers from suburban 0 1010, backyard homes because they disturb the towns tranquil II. nights. "Mrs. Brenner's prob. lem is that her neighbor has one 9 of these bug killers," explains councilman Larry Baker.

"Like a lot of people, she has trouble Bug zapper steeping sometimes, and the bug killers keep her awake." Baker was Instrumental in getting a noise-control ordinance passed in sleepy Iowa City, where the racket these days is the sound lot crickets' chirping. The winds around the system and the winds steering the system are two different winds," said who anticipates that the depression may slow to 15- 4 mph or less today or tomorrow. But, Gerrish said, "It's still too early to tell" if it will become a tropical storm. If winds intensify and the depression Is upgraded to a tropical storm, it will be called Arthur. Weather officials expect the system to "stay over the waters of the Caribbean for the next day or Gerrish said.

"If the system stays on its present course, then the major impact will be over open waters for the next 24 hours." tropical storm strength," Gerrish said, noting that the turbulent weather system is moving "progressively closer" to Miami. "There's a good possibility it could intensify within the next 24 to 48 hours and go to tropical storm status," Gerrish said. He said the depression was movibg west-northwest at about 20 mph this morning, slightly faster than yesterday, As the system continues westward, Gerrish said, officials expect it to slow down, which could cause its winds to gain strength. "The maximum sustained winds tend to increase when the system slows down. The tropical depression over the Caribbean.

abou' I 1,200 miles southeast of Miami, Is just short becoming the first tropical storm of the hurricanf season, weather officials say. The depression. with sustained winds clocked a 35 mph just under the 39 mph necessary for it ti be upgraded to a tropical storm was 250 mile south of San Juan, Puerto Rico, at 6 a.m., said Ha Gerrish, hurricane specialist with the Nations Weather "It's kind of a borderline depression, just belo4 MMIMMIMIE Gator aid 5-inch-wide lot Associated Prins So you'd like to Invest In a little land? In Mason City, Iowa, The Cprrb Gbrdo County Board of Supervisors might have just the slice for you. Its just the thing if you're looking to practice a putt or put a little work into your bowling form. The land, 5 Inches wide and nearly 124 feet long, is available near-the south edge of Mason City Tent and Awning Co.

The supervisors will try to sell that strip, along with six other properties acquired after taxes were at least three years overdue, at a public auction Aug. 6. The slender strip of land most likely Is the result of an error on deeds over the years. made one of his sharpest attacks on the United States. calling President Reagan "the most brutal and U.S, leader since Castro took power in January 1959.

But this year's speech comes just a month afterCastro met with the Rev. Jesse Jackson and freed 26 Cuban political prisoners and 22 jailed Americans to go back to the United States with the presidential candidate. Two weeks ago, Cuban and State Department negotiators met for three days in New York in the first round of talks on the thorny issue of resumption of Cuban emigration to the United States and the proposed return to Cuba of some 1,000 hardcore criminals sent in the 1980 boatlift But while Castro has apparent motive for improving U.S. relations, he hasn't yet offered any concessions. U.S.

officials will be listening carefully to Castro's speech tonight for more signals. z- Clmarir the ElOtS, anvuebrasar.5-, outbhea )' '4 t.b..,,,,z, lution with i -nationwide celebrations today and a 'speech by Cas- er id, Aro tonight el that may indi- cate whether 1 he wants bet- 1 ter relations Fidel Castro with the United States. The annual 26th of July holiday commemorates the Castro-led rebel attack on an army barracks. The attack failed and Castro was exiled to Mexico, but it established Castro as leader of the opposition to rightist dictator Fulgencio Batista, who was overthrown 5IA years later. Castro normally delivers a .1 "state of the union" speech on the l' holiday.

In last year's address, he 4.WIO5t. 1A.4' did ye' Deal them out They opened a new hotel in Las Vegas the other day. No big deal they're always opening hotels In Vegas. This one's a little different. It doesn't have a casino.

Owners of the Alexis Park Resort Hotel are betting $40 million that some people who visit Glitter Gulch can do so without gambling. The Mediterranean-style 500-room hotel Is on a 19-acre patch of desert half a mile from the Strip. Owner Robert Schulman claims Las Vegas Is "long overdue for a luxurious, non-gaming hotel." Schulman admits he has not ruled out adding a casino at a later date. Twenty years ago, the Tallyho Hotel was built on the same no-gambling concept. It folded and was later reopened as the Aladdin Hoteland casino.

a Federal subpoena issued for records of city-sponsored agency Quote unquote Richard Nixon in a speech to the New York Economic Club: "Two billion people living in poor countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America have an average per capita income of less than $500. The people in those countries have enormous problems. The communists at least talk about the problems. We too often just talk about the communists." BILL WORE mismi NI loportor Porter .00 7 it ay 1 4 i Loser's the Washington, D.C.. Lottery Board.

An Egyptian exchange student named Hesham lbrahem this month won a $100,000 prize in the D.C. lotteryor at least he thought he did. The lottery board gave him a $100,000 check, then asked for it back, claiming that because of a clerical error check was $50,000 too much. After Ibrahem balked at returning the money, U.S. Immigration and Naturalization agents had him thrown in Jail and threatened to deport him.

"If my mother knew this, she would t.te," Ibrahem sighs. "It was the first time I've been arrested. I had a piece of metal to sleep on. I woke up and found a bug In my mouth." The lottery people finally let Ibrahem keep his $100,000 prize. Joe Modzolowski Vow, MCDI yet, according to Juan del Cerro, MCDI's president and chairt man.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark P. Schnapp, whose name appeared on the subpoena, declined to corn- ent and would not confirm that there Is an investigation. Gallogly, Izaguirre and Juan del Cerro, Miami Capital's president and chairman, said they have no Idea why the subpoenas were is)poena, sued or whether they are related to the recent city report that critimection cized MCDI. Since the past management.

problems were disclosed, Gallogly said, "I have no knowledge of abuse." She said since the report. Miami Capital has made "major improvements" in management of loans. "I have no idea what they want," del Cerro said. "I have no idea what it's tied into. We have' been audited, monitored by federal agencies, by three of the eight big accounting firms and each and ey- ery single penny has been account-material ed for.

"All the monies loaned were used for the purposes loaned. Where the grand jury is coming from, I have no Izaguirre, who recently became acting director, said he doesn't A. 4 IF I A federal subpoena has been issued for what has been called a truckload of records from a city-sponsored agency that recently came under harsh criticism for mismanagement of at least $6 million In federal loan money used to assist small and medium-size businesses. The subpoena. Issued through the U.S.

Attorney's Office. report- edly in connection with an investigation by a federal grand jury, asked for a wide range of records from Miami Capital Development Inc. (MCDI), a private, nonprofit agency. Charlotte Gallogly, director of Miami's Department of Economic Development. which issued the critical report several months ago.

and Alfredo Izaguirre, acting director of MCDI, said the records originally sought were not delivered to the U.S. Attorney June 28 as requested because of the large volume of material subpoenaed. They said they told the U.S. Attorney's Office that it would take a truck to deliver all the records. They were then told that the federal agency will reduce the number of documents it wants to review.

The revised list of documents has not been submitted to LI subpoena has been is- what has been called a of records from a city- agency erhenarcsyh that recently for ement of at least $6 mil- ral loan money used to II and medium-size bust- issued through Itorney's Office, report- with an investi- a federal grand jury. a wide range of records ni Capital Development a private, non-profit Gallogly, director of iepartment of Economic ent, which issued the 3ort several months ago, do Izaguirre, acting di- MCDI, said the records sought were not deliv- U.S. Attorney June 28 ed because of the large subpoenaed. xid they told the U.S. Office that it would ck to deliver all the re- ey were then told that I agency will reduce the documents it wants to ti 44 It M.

it 4.11 r7-41ir JP4711141- Classified 5C Money 10A Columns 13A Movies 2C Comics 7E Olympics 1D Deaths 4A Racing Green 58 Editorials 12A Religion 7A Fishing Report. 4B Sneak Preview 1C Food 1E Sports 1B Local 5A TV 4C i I.a NOOMI NOWS A.G. MONTANAR I On the set of 'Miami Vice: anim al handler Arti Malesci cools off 'Elvis, the watchdog alligator. with liquid from a spray can. Elvis and its 350-pound double, 'Pres ley: appear in the new TV series which was being filmed yesterdily at Miamarina.

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