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-i-- Jl I P'll OETBfl Spaces! se IPA TRIBUM METRO Tampa, Florida Friday, August 28, 1992 54 pages dion inside HP IhT hj iL i Dome lease looks to 26-year deal be Partly cloudy with a 50 chance of afternoon showers. Highs: low 90s. NationWorld-12 "Someone who interferes with this agreement does so at his own risk. Mike Davis, St Petersburg city attorney FloridaMetro news can be found inside this section. "Someone who interferes with this agreement does so at his own risk," City Attorney Mike Davis told the St.

Petersburg City Council Thursday. Officials said quick approval of the Florida Suncoast Dome lease agreement would signal the city's resolve to Major League Baseball owners who have yet to vote on the proposed relocation. San Francisco officials have mounted an effort to keep the team. City officials said negotiations began Monday morning. Instead of meeting at city hall where they might be noticed, negotiators huddled at the Barnett Tower and the Dome and By JOHN STEBBINS Tribune Staff Writer ST.

PETERSBURG City officials emerged from three days of secret negotiations Thursday with a proposed long-term lease agreement with prospective buyers of the San Francisco Giants and sent a stern warning to anyone who might try to sabotage the deal. The 26-year agreement with the Tampa Bay Baseball Ownership Group sends a clear warning particularly to Charlotte Hornets owner George Shinn, who is leading an effort to keep the team in California. also communicated by fax and by telephone. A marathon session that lasted until 11 p.m. took place Tuesday night.

The final agreement wasn't faxed to city hall until 10:41 a.m. Thursday, while the council was in regular session. Davis, who led the city's negotiating team, said after the council meeting that the agreement would help prove the city's losses, estimated in the tens of millions of dollars, if someone did thwart the sale. "Yes, if some third party tries to come in and interfere Shinn or somebody else See DOME, Page 9 fciDxerate for help "vL1 ffl ii; Jrnmanes; XL XL Bush aior drat Off to the races: Need to know who's running for what office? What they stand for? Where to vote? Find all the answers today in the Tribune's Primaries '92 tabloid. Special section urn Teachers flunk Bush: Average teacher salaries reach an all-time high of $34,213, but a teachers union 'criticizes President Bush for dumping the costs on the states.

NationWorld-2 By MICHAEL BERG, TIM COLLIE and STEVE HUETTEL Tribune Staff Writers MIAMI The hungry and homeless waited for help and frustrated volunteers tried to provide it Thursday as federal, state and local officials blamed one another for the slow pace of Hurricane Andrew recovery efforts. President Campaign stop: Hillary Clin ix i i 4 JOBLESS Andrew to boost unemployment Business Finance-1 LUMBER State probes profiteering Business Finance-1 Bush pledged to dispatch federal troops in a massive relief effort, but only after bitter Dade County relief officials complained that the federal ton, holding little Lakeisha West, touts the Democrats' party line, takes a few jabs at President Bush and raises about $200,000 for her husband Bill's presidential campaign dur -J I ing a visit to Tampa. FloridaMetro-1 1 rr-JT vs. Browns: Some fans jnay not like it, but Vinny Testaverde Js the' Bucs' starting quarterback and he. says he won't let the jeers get him down during tonight's game against peveland.

Sports-1 Tribune photograph by COLIN HACKLEY Miriam Deborah comforts her mother Ir-ma Cabrera in LaPlace, Thursday. Andrew takes home, husband Father of 6 a victim of tornado in Louisiana zzz i ifK Price of progress: Kash Karry executives will take pay cuts and employee wages will be frozen for one year to pay for renovations and new grocery stores. Business Finance-1 wmm 1 response was inadequate. "If we do not get food and water into South Dade, there will be more casualties," said Dade County disaster coordinator Kate Hale, choking back tears as she described families going days without food or shelter. Federal officials said they have responded to every plea for help by Gov.

Lawton Chiles and local authorities. But a top aide to the governor said a regional federal emergency official turned down a request earlier this week for federal reserves to help provide support because Chiles hadn't yet called up enough of the state's National Guard. A request for federal troops was made Thursday and the first brigade of U.S. Army troops to be deployed to South Florida will leave Fort Bragg, N.C., today, military officials said. Between 1,500 and 3,000 troops from the Army's 18th Airborne Corps will help feed and house hurricane survivors.

They include medical, engineering, communication units and tent-building crews, said Lt. Col. Bill Reynolds of the U.S. 2nd Army, which controls the Airborne Corps. "We have more assets than the state National Guard would have and the operations to bring them down there," Reynolds said.

"Our main concern right now is to help those people who need food, shelter and water." See DADE, Page I Fashion flashback: Designer By BOOTH GUNTER Tribune Staff Writer LaPLACE, La. Irma Cabrera came home to 702 Belle Pointe Blvd. for medicine and clothes. But she could hardly bear what she saw, and what she knew. Every few minutes, she sobbed quietly.

Carlos Cabrera, her husband of 42 years, was dead found on their bed, buried beneath the wood and wallboard that had been their home. His was one of two deaths attributed to Hurricane Andrew in Louisiana. Another man in a shelter suffered a heart attack. At least 33 were injured, one critically. By Thursday, Andrew had been downgraded to a tropical depression and had moved into Mississippi and Alabama with winds of about 35 mph.

It was expected to move Into Georgia today. The storm swept through Florida on Monday, spawning 15 tornadoes and causing up to See TORNADO, Page 8 Norma Kamali takes her cues from the era of the silver screen with her 1940s-inspired slim suits and dresses that flatter the female form. "It doesn't matter If a dress by her is a 4 or a 14, It is shapely and sexy," says Debbie Skyrms, owner of BayLlfe-1 "25Sn Tribune photograph by DAVID KADLUBOWSKI An inspector examines the wreckage of a plane carrying relief supplies that crashed in Miramar on Thursday, killing two. Story, NationWorld-8. Deborah Kent's.

Aquarium bonds sold; may bring jobs downtown ANN LANDERS CItWd Comlct-2 'ASTROLOGY Clil(ld Comlca-2 BRIDGE Clatlfld Comlct-2 CLASSIFIED ClMiWd Comlc-3 jPEATHS FlorldtMttTO-9 EDITORIAL Regional fctlon FOCU3 ON FLORIDA FlorldeMttro-S LOTTERY FlorldMetro-a PUZZLES Comlct-2 TELEVISION BeyLlfe-4 WATCH NetlonWorld-10 'yP 75 of The Tampa Tribune It printed on recycled paper. 'j C' 8m Vif No. 207 Copyright 1992 ThoTrlbon Co. i Joe Valentl, executive director of the Tampa Port Authority, called the aquarium the "linchpin." 79 plant species, with a focus on Florida marine life. Within 60 days, port officials hope to reach agreements to develop a music amphitheater and the Garrison Seaport Channel a project that Includes shops, restaurants and a possible hotel on port-owned land next to the aquarium.

"We've been waiting like everybody else for the aquarium," said Grant Weyman, a spokesman for the EricChandler Entertainment Group that wants to build i YL. By KEVIN SHINKLE Tribune Staff Writer TAMPA The remaking of downtown Tampa's waterfront should begin in 2 weeks as the city sold $84 million in bonds to finance the Florida Aquarium. The Tampa City Council approved the sale Thursday, ending a 5-year trek for aquarium supporters and triggering what could be years of downtown construction. Work will begin Sept. 15 on the $94 million project and its signature shell-shaped glass roof, aquarium officials say.

That should bring jobs, money and 1.6 million visitors a year downtown, say business and government leaders. "The aquarium really Is the linchpin," said Joe Valentl, executive director of the Tampa Port Authority, which owns the land where the aquarium and other developments will be located. "Everything else was contingent on the aquarium," he said. "This Is really a big step for us." i the retractable-roof amphitheater. "That was the key to the deal.

We'll be cranking back up." The final deal for the aquarium financing didn't come easy, however. What aquarium officials thought might be a routine municipal bond sale turned serious Wednesday when a shaky market made some investors shy, especially since the aquarium's total cost was financed with debt. See AQUARIUM, Page V- The aquarium is expected to open on May 1, 1995, and Include about 4,350 specimens of 486 animal species and 1 rrr 141.