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SATURDAY, JANUARY 3. 1981 Telephone 929-2000 gSE, MIW222 40 Pages 25 Cents -J mm Florida's tarnished Gold Coast Carter renews ban on grain By Lee Lescaze Washington Post PALM SPRINGS, Calif. President Jimmy Carter extended the embargo on grain shipments to the Soviet Union yesterday, and President-elect Ronald Reagan indicated that he has not decided whether he will cancel the embargo as he promised during the presidential campaign. -m CD r0ti li if ft i The 104-year-old Boylston Building in Boston's Combat Zone is to house a branch of the computer firm Wang Laboratories. Wang Laboratories plans Boston plant By Ron Rosenberg Globe Staff 104-year-old building near Chinatown will soon become a high computer manufacturing facility a branch of Wang Laboratories the Lowell computer company.

Wang Laboratories will use the four upper stories of the Boylston Building, at the corner of Boylston and Washington streets in the Combat Zone near Chinatown, for light manufacturing 2nd assembly work. Wang Laboratories will lease the Boylston Building from the city's Chi- nese Economic Development Council, which recently purchased it for $1.3 million. A formal announcement by the council and Wang is expected on Jan. 19. About 250 to 300 Jobs will be created but the building must first un By Mark I.

Pinsky Special to The Globe MIAMI BEACH Miami police say they are near the limit of their ability to deal with murders. Last Saturday night Dade County, which includes Miami and Miami Beach, recorded its 578th murder of the year when a man in the Little Ha vana section was shot point-blank The previous record had been 365 kill ings, In 1979. "I just go from murder scene to murder scene, says Andrew Sund-berg, a homicide detective. "I don't have time to philosophize anymore. I don't have the luxury to sit back and contemplate what makes people do it.

I just handle the deaths and do what I can." The number of murders here and the fear they engender in resi dents and tourists is a growing problem for southern Florida. But it's not the only one. For more than a year, this multinational and multi-ethnic metropolitan region of 3.5 million people, stretching from Key West to Palm Beach, has been battered by a series of political, economic and social storms that, in sum, seem far more severe than most of the hurricanes that occasionally slam ashore. Because of a variety of factors fear of crime is the most frequently cited occupancy rates along this fabled strand were off by about 30 percent the week between Christmas and New Year's, a traditional barometer of the coming winter tourist season. Not all the signs were bad, however.

On Dec. 28, 1980. car rental agencies reported no vehicles available in the area of Miami International Airport. And transportation officials earlier that day announced that the trans-Atlantic supersonic Concorde may soon be making landings there. But the concern over a sharp rise in violent crime has set off waves of depressing, communal introspection about the future of the four southern Florida counties along the Atlantic that make up the famed "Gold Coast." From north to south the counties are: Palm Beach, Broward, Dade and Monroe.

The mood in the area has become so pervasively pessimistic that the editor of the Miami Herald felt compelled to launch a "Light a Candle for Miami" campaign through the morning daily's community relations department, if only to counter the almost daily articles on the news pages of MIAMI, Page 12 After many increases, prime rate goes down Banks across the nation wasted little time in 1981 cutting the interest rate they charge to their most-favored loan customers. Yesterday. Citibank led most major banks including the First National Bank of Boston to a prime lending rate of.20'S percent, down from 21VS percent. the Dow Jones average of 30 industrial stocks closed the holiday-shortened week at 972.78 points, up 6.40 for the four days. And the federal government reported increases in December factory orders and new construction, giving officials what they said was further proof of a strong economy.

Stories, Page 15. if 2 -v dergo extensive renovation. The build ing's ground floor will house a Chi nese Arcade retail center. The downtown facility marks Wang's first move into Boston. Most of its Massachusetts manufacturing plants are around Tewksbury, its original home, and Lowell, its current headquarters.

The fast-growing com pany was founded by An Wang, who came to Boston from China about 40 years ago. It is Lowell's largest employer. Wang will be the second major high technology manufacturer in downtown Boston. Teradyne a manufacturer of industrial test and measurement equipment, Is on the edge of Chinatown, near South Station. Last year, Digital Equipment Corp.

began building video display terminals at a WANG, Page 14 Gloucester, West Newton, Woburn Square and Uphams Corner in Dorchester. Also effective Feb. 1, the Belmont Center. Prides Crossing in Beverly and Waverly Square, Belmont, commuter rail stations will be closed on Saturdays, Sundays and on weekdays outside of peak hours. The following trains will be eliminated: Monday through Friday: Two midday round-trips between Boston and South Acton.

Two rush-hour round-trips between Boston and Hastings. One morning train from Fra-mlngham to Boston. One morning round-trip between Boston and Stoughton. One midday round-trip between Boston and Attleboro. Saturday: Two round-trips between Boston and South Acton.

MBTA. Page 14 17' I A Reagan won farmers' applause with campaign attacks on the embargo, but he said here yesterday that ending the embargo "is something for a great deal of study." "You have to determine whether we're having as much effect on the Soviet Union or if that's being offset by a worse effect on our own agricultural community," Reagan said. Although aides had indicated since the election that Reagan was having second thoughts about the embargo, this was the first time since he won the presidency that Reagan has discussed the issue. The Carter Administration has argued that the embargo, which covers grain, phosphates for fertilizer, oil and gas equipment and parts for the Soviet Kama River truck plant, is hurting the Soviets and that it continues to be justified by the Soviet presence in Afghanistan. Carter imposed the embargo in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and Commerce Secretary Philip M.

Klutznick, in announcing the one-year extension, again cited the Soviet occupation of that country. If Carter had not ordered the extension, some parts of the embargo would have expired at midnight Wednesday. The grain embargo is unpopular with farmers who accuse the Carter Administration of making them pay an economic price with a measure that is not seriously Injuring its target the Soviet Union. Throughout the presidential campaign, the Carter Administration attempted, with little apparent success, to convince farmers that the embargo was working and that it was not damaging their efforts to sell their crops. The Carter Administration helped to open new export markets, and farm exports reached record highs last year, but fanners countered that the totals would have been even higher without the embargo.

In a brief exchange with reporters at Palm Springs Airport, Reagan also said he has not decided whether to reduce cost-of-living increases in Social Security and other federal benefits as part of his program to balance the budget. "I think we're looking at everything." Reagan said. He added that he won't know whether benefits will be cut until he has had time to study all the reports that have been prepared by his task forces. "We have discovered that the (budget) deficit is going to be double what it had been estimated," Reagan said. "The budget is going to be much bigger than they've been talking about all these past several months of the campaign." (Related story.

Page 2.) Bowdoin, Symphony stations close today ti SEVEN FOR SNOW The storm that hit New England yesterday caused problems for drivers, but pleased skiers. In Manchester. N.H., seven snow-lovers lined up for a toboggan ride. Story. Page 20.

giobe photo by ted ouliy The MBTA is permanently closing the Bowdoin and Symphony subway stations in Boston today and will close nine commuter rail stations Feb. 1. the transit authority announced yesterday. "The service reductions are part of the MBTA's determination to live within the legally authorized budget approved by the Advisory Board," MBTA Chairman Barry M. Locke said in a statement.

"Efficiency and economy are our goals and lightly patronized stations must be closed." Locke and George Bailey, chairman of the board's commuter rail subcommittee, estimated that the retrenchments in this phase alone will save $1.1 million a year, with 9.7 percent fewer trains in operation. The commuter rail stations that are to be closed permanently on Feb. 1 are Auburndale, Cross street in Wo-burn. Morton street in Boston, Plimp-tonville. Silver Hill in Weston, West TH AT'S LIFE Chris Ayers of Cape Elizabeth.

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