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ivistro: Monday December 9, 1996 ma SUNNY AND COLD TAM MTEMUNE A MEDIA GENERAL NEWSPAPER http:www.tampatrlb.com TAMPA, FLORIDA Brace for chilly winds. Expect a low in the low-to mid-40s and a high in the low- to raid-60s. Florida Metro, In the wake Page 8 Russia, NATO get 1st EXTENDED FAMILY A jawbone found in Africa could push the known lineage of humans back nearly a half million years. It appears these creatures were toolmakers. This section, Page 6 WM ML RHODES SCHOLARS priority Two Floridians are among the 32 Americans named to the 1997 class of Rhodes Scholars.

This section, Page 3 SUMMARY: National Security Adviser-designate Sandy Berger ranks Russia-NATO the No. 1 foreign policy issue. He also says the Bosnia presence won't last. By JIM ABRAMS of The Associated Press WASHINGTON President Clinton's choice as national security adviser for his second term outlined five general foreign policy goals Sunday, chief among them to bring Russia into a democratic and united Europe. Sandy Berger, in his first interview since his appointment Thursday, also told IMPACT OF THEFT Auto theft is an expensive nuisance for victims, but the crime affects everyone who needs car insurance.

Florida Metro, Page 1 ROBERT BURKETribune photo Kathy Davis, above right, is joined by gather those belongings not destroyed families were left homeless as a twist-family and friends as she searches in Saturday's tornado. Davis' husband, er churned through a mobile home through the debris of her home to Gary Lee Davis, was killed and several park in eastern Hillsborough County. ABC's "This Week" the United States will not have a permanent military presence in Bosnia, and U.S. troops will not be involved directly in tracking down suspected war criminals there. But the first priority of the adminis TAKEOUT BOOM Although home-cooked meals are rare for many people these days, desire for them isn't.

Restaurants and supermarkets rush to cash in. Business Finance, Page 16 Deadly twister's survivors count their blessings ft Berger tration's new foreign SILENT STALKER SUMMARY: Riverview residents begin to pick up the pieces Sunday in the aftermath of a tornado those houses, and they all made it out without a scratch. It's almost like that thing had a vengeance for Garv." said his Although chlamydia is that devastated their community. By TRACIE REDDICK of The Tampa Tribune II 1 ubrother-in-law, Mike Matoka. ill 1 1 Davis, 50, was a trucker pro- filed in The Tampa Tribune last year after he befriended a lost treatable, many are unaware they have the "rf disease.

Its effects can be particularly devastating for women. Baylife, Page 1 HEARTWARMING PERFORMANCE Students in a Hanukkah play say performing helps bring home the message of the holiday. Baylife, Page 4 111 policy team, Berger said, will be "building perhaps for the first time a democratic and united Europe around an expanded NATO and a partnership with Russia." Clinton has promised to move quickly to bring Warsaw Pact nations into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic are most often mentioned and has tried to reassure Moscow that NATO's, expansion does not threaten Russia. He; announced last week he will meet Rus-: sian President Boris Yeltsin next March in advance of a planned summer meeting of NATO leaders. Other priorities Berger identified are to build U.S.

bridges to east Asia; to deal, with "a cluster of new security challeng-: es" such as drugs, terrorism, rogue states and the environment; to recognize "that we are the indispensable nation which can contribute to peace where our interests and our values are and to create American jobs by building the global economy. Sen. Richard Lugar, a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said Berger's goals "offer some possibility for a strategic vision." But Lugar, appearing later on ABC, said at the present time "there is not strategic vision and, secondly, there isn't money. And that's true whether it is diplomacy or whether it's defense." Berger, a longtime friend of the president who has served as deputy national security adviser in the first Clinton term, See POLICY, Page 8 dog that darted in front of his rig along the Crosstown Expressway near Gandy Boulevard. Although Davis had four male dogs, he brought home the female German shorthaired pointer he named Lady.

He placed an ad in the paper but secretly hoped no one would claim Lady while she accompanied him on a delivery route to North Carolina. When Davis returned from the trip, the owners had contacted his wife, Kathy, and he returned the dog to her Interbay home. "He was always doing good deeds," Matoka said. "I feel kind of bad because he was supposed to go with the rest of the family to my niece's ballet recital. But he wasn't feeling well, so he stayed at home." Sickness is what prompted the Carpenters, who lived next door to Davis, to leave their home shortly before it was Iev- RIVERVIEW Gary Lee Davis didn't survive the tornado that zig-zagged through his east Hillsborough County neighborhood Saturday.

But as his friends and family went through what was left of his belongings, they stumbled across something that reminded them of the joy he brought to their lives a box of unbroken Christmas tree ornaments. "Can you believe that something this fragile would survive all of that destruction? It's almost like a sign," said Carolyn Rolison, a neighbor who was sifting through the pile of debris that was once Davis' home. Six families were displaced after their mobile homes tangled with a tornado that ripped through a cul-de-sac along Cowley Cove Drive. Mangled carports and missing roofs were signatures the storm left at four other houses. Damage estimates had not yet been determined Sunday, police said.

"There were people in all of A CLASSIC WIN Golfers Mike Hulbert and Donna Andrew win the JCPenney Classic. Sports, Page 1 FIGHTING ABUSE Although fewer people are dying because of domestic violence, much more needs to be done to curb abuse. This section, Page 10 See TORNADO, Page 8 JAY NOLANTribune photo FINANCIAL UPDATE Miami's zest for life takes decided plunge A little bit of Vegas in Niagara Falls Keep track of the latest financial news at http:www.tampa trib.comsec tionsmoney.htm and select AP it Rim QOntint Breaking News. ANNABBY Baylifc-7 ASTROLOGY Baylife-7 BRIDGE Bayllfe-7 CLASSIFIED Clasalfled-1 COMICS Bayllfa-7, 8 DEATHS Florida Matro-7 EDITORIALS Thla aactlon-10 LOTTERY Florida Metro-2 MOVIE TIMES Bayllfa-3 PUZZLES Bayllfa-7 TELEVISION Bayllfa-6 SUMMARY: The city's financial woes will be painful to repair, but its leaders have yet to agree on a plan. Gov.

Lawton Chiles could step in. By BOOTH QUNTER and WILLIAM MARCH of The Tampa Tribune MIAMI In the heart of Little Havana, old men sit on brightly painted stools and play dominoes in the courtyard of Maximo Gomez Park. Downtown, the captains of finance toil in shiny office towers. And in South Beach, chefs busily prepare for the nightly horde of diners who will descend on the historic art deco district. Yes, life goes on in Miami.

But all is not well in this busy metropolis, which celebrates its centennial this year. Outward appearances of prosperity belie the turmoil that has beset Florida's most famous city as it reels from a financial calamity the likes of which the state has never seen. The city government is $68 million in the red the result of a fiscal shell game that city managers played for years under the nose of state auditors. It's so bad that two bond rating services have downgraded Miami's rating to junk bond status. If nothing is done to make up the deficit, the city could start bouncing checks by March.

Last week, after the extent of the problem became painfully apparent, Gov. Lawton Chiles declared a financial emergency and decided to use state authority to appoint a board of experts to help the city dig out of its hole. The political anguish has only begun. City employees are getting nervous, as are municipal bond investors. Residents could soon see their services reduced while their fees and taxes escalate.

A new firefight-ing fee is being contemplated. Police substations are slated for clos- where growth must be detected with a magnifying glass. "I see these casinos as giant, money-sucking machines," said the Rev. Patrick Warren, a Presbyterian minister and chairman of a grass-roots group called Citizens Concerned About Casinos in Niagara Falls, N.Y. "Every dollar put in a slot machine is a dollar not spent at a restaurant or a bowling alley." There's little doubt the casino's biggest winner will be its owner, the Ontario provincial government.

Through its Ontario Casino the government will collect a 20 percent tax on up-front earnings, then take all profits beyond expenses and the cut given to the Navegante Group, the Las Vegas-based operating company. Nave-gante's share will include a percentage of the games and depend on the number of visitors and total casino revenue. Dominic Alfieri, See CASINO, Page 8 SUMMARY: Casino Niagara is expected to squeeze millions from the wallets of U.S. tourists into Ontario's provincial government coffers. By JOHN AFFLECK of The Associated Press NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario Its front door just 100 yards from the U.S.

border, Casino Niagara opens today amid expectations it will rake in more money than any Las Vegas gaming hall. Predictions of 9,000 new jobs and more visitors to a city already flush with tourism have Canadian officials crowing about the four-story, $118 million casino, created out of a flagging shopping mall. On the American side of the falls, however, politicians, academics, clergy and business leaders are wary of their new neighbor. Although some anticipate beneficial spinoffs, many are bracing for another blow to a local economy Mayor Joe Carollo cites mismanagement and corruption in earlier administrations. 9 91 of The Tampa Tribune is ing.

Parks will be shut down or sold. Layoffs are possible. And looming over the city like a dark thunderhead is the specter of bankruptcy a thought so loathsome that city commissioners nearly choke on the word. See MIAMI, Page 7 recycled paper. 102nd Ylf- No.

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