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11 ILITCZE'Wdt51NMiUt School Board hears Belle Glade parents Aussies remain alive in America's Cup 1 '041Pal REGIONAL NEWS PAGE 1D SPORTS NEWS PAGE 1D "-41 117 04 Palm Beach Final Partly Cloudy Details on 2A mi Her cPlaorut dl yy T1 Ali to I Details on 2A Ue tnt ger tb 9 II I 2 3 4 5 II 7 8 2 10 Thursday September 22 1983 25 cents Omega 7 chief turned in his men On I 1 I r'' -r 'f'' Azt' 1 ir 1-1 lk -1- 1 ifii ---E1-'--1'4 ---s 4i--" '-r 1 kir A i ti 14 ri A1 Err lk Cuban expatriates react with shock disbelief over allegations Arocena told FBI of bomb plot Cuban over all( He was arrested in July after FBI agents staked out a Little Havana apartment where he had been living Before his arrest Arocena continued placing telephone calls to an FBI agent according to testimony Wednesday's surprising disclosures came at a preliminary hearing during which Arocena's lawyer urged that his $1 million bond be lowered US Magistrate Nina Gershon refused "Mr Walpin has said I should treat Arocenal not as a common criminal but as some suaded to cooperate in order to "strengthen his organization" which he felt was being undermined by some members who may have been associated with drug dealers After several 'meetings with FBI agents in which he allegedly admitted his role and the role of associates in bombings Arocena dropped from sight after a trip to Miami and disappeared Arocena had promised to find a 600-pound hidden cache of explosives when FBI agents permitted him to travel to Miami in September 1982 He disappeared after he arrived in Miami and the explosives were never recovered courtroom listening to the testimony cooperated with the FBI after he apparently became convinced his associates had become "Communist sympathizers" one FBI official said Arocena thought that by turning them in to the government it would "cleanse his organization" FBI Deputy Assistant Director Kenneth Walton said Arocena's court-appointed defense attorney Gerald Wa lpin said Arocena was per By JIM McGEE Herald Staff Writer NEW YORK Eduardo Arocena the feared leader of the Omega 7 terrorist group met secretly with FBI agents last year and provided information about a bomb that led to his own arrest and the arrest of four alleged associates an investigator testified Wednesday Arocena who sat quietly in a Manhattan By JIM McGEE Herald Staff Writer NEW YOR1 feared leader met secretly provided infon to his own an leged associat Wednesday Arocena wi Eduardo Arocena: Talked to FBI Please turn to AROCENA I 14A Marines come aboard Wometco price tag is $1 billion WOM price 81 10 Are Slain 200 Hurt in Manila From Herald Wire Services loodiest anti-government rioting in ar rule rocked Manila Wednesday nd nearly 200 injured by official Vet: lc ''''s f--P- 1'-legti- rr4''''' 7 i I v' 1's4 tt i I 4 i 496 t''! ----00t' lAg-st -t v-I 0o-' i --tNI I- 1 77i i I 4 -t 0- -lik r---'! seeks price slash on long calls Bid for 10-15 cut tied to access charge Corporate sale will be largest in Florida By MARTIN MERZER Herald Business Writer In the largest corporate sale In South Florida history the family that controls Wometco Enterprises Inc agreed Wednesday night to sell the entertainment conglomerate for more than $1 billion The preliminary deal would convert Miami-based Wometco from a publicly owned to a privately held company controlled primarily by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts Co a New York investment firm Under the agreement Kohlberg Kravis and the undisclosed investors it represents would pay $4650 a share for all of Wometco's 181 million shares a total of $8416 million Wometco's stock the subject of much speculation in recent weeks was selling at $4250 a share at Wednesday's close of trading on the New York Stock Exchange The buyer also would assume Wometco's debts of about $180 million bringing the total cost to more than $1 billion Wometco founded in 1925 by Mitchell Wolfson and Sidney Meyer owns WWI-Ch 4 in Miami and five other television stations 100 movie theaters cable-television systems bottling plants the Miami Seaquarium and other properties Wolfson a pioneering South Florida business leader who had maintained firm control of the corn- pany for 58 years died Jan 28 at the age of 82 One of the most enduring and tenacious figures in local business circles Wolfson had insisted that his company would never be sold even after his death "I have taken care of all that" he said late last year "I have confidence in the executors of my will The company will not be sold and it will not be broken up" Wolfson did not designate a successor however either as corporate chairman or as family leader Relatives who control 26 per cent of Wometco's stock had expressed lit-Please turn to WOMETCO 3A largest By MARTIN MI Herald Business Wr In the large! South Florida that controls Inc agreed Wei the enterfainmf more than $1 bi The prelitnin vert Miami-bas publicly owned company cont Kohlberg Krav New York inve Under the a Kravis and tin tors it represen a share for all million shares million Wometco's much speculati was selling at Wednesday's cl New York Stoc The buyer Wometco's deb lion bringing t' than $1 billion Wometco Mitchell Wol Meyer owns and five other 100 movie thea systems bath Seaquarium an Wolfson a Florida busine maintained fin pany for 58 yo the age of 82 One of the nacious figures cies Wolfson 1 company woul even after his "I have take said late last dence in the will The cl sold and it will Wolfson did cessor howeve chairman or as tives who cot Wometco's sto! Please ha Index 132 pages anommon 1 biCorporat I Index TIM CHAPMANMleml Herald Staff Hand signals guide pilot to landing on deck of USS Virginia MANILA Philippines The President Ferdinand Marcos' 18-ye leaving at least 10 people dead a count The violence exploded after a peaceful demonstration by about 500000 Filipinos in front of Manila's central post office exactly one month after the assassination of Marcos' chief political rival Benigno Aquino Street fires and rallies continued late into the night in both poor and wealthy Manila neighborhoods but the worst violence was on Mendiola Bridge leading to Marcos' palatial residence A presidential spokesman appealed for calm this morning and said the government would try to open a dialogue with protesters to avoid more of the bloodshed that had left the capital strewn with smoldering fires and debris Nearly 1000 youths shouting "Ninoy Ninoy" Aquino's nickname threw stones and charged police lines set afire two buses and a dredging crane and threw homemade bombs into police ranks Police at first retreated but then fought back with clubs and gunfire clearing the rioters and thousands of other students off streets in the university district about a half-mile from the palace The dead were identified as two firemen two marines and six civilians the government said It said at least 50 riot troops were injured including a brigadier general hit by shrapnel from a bomb Injured civilians including five reporters covering the riots suffered cuts and bruises and wounds from shrapnel or bullets Rioters in a neighboring district looted and burned a government US Navy aims its big guns at unseen Lebanese targets By BRIAN DICKERSON Herald Business Writer American Telephone Telegraph Co announced Wednesday that it will seek permission to cut interstate long-distance telephone rates by 10 to 15 per cent The company whose charges for Interstate long-distance service are set by the Federal Communications Commission said it would reveal details of the proposed reductions in an Oct 3 filing with the FCC "The filing is very complex but residential customers are going to see an average 10 per cent reduction in what they pay to make a long-distance call" said spokeswoman Edie Herman If the commission gives its OK the new rates would take effect on Jan 1 the day is scheduled to be broken apart under terms of an agreement ending a US government anti-trust case against the company As it has previously made it clear Wednesday that the pro War Powers wrangle I 19A Hawk for Israel 17A Orders came from the commanderof the American forces in Lebanon Capt Morgan France to "fire on my command" "We are ready to fire" said Joseph King captain of the Virginia at his post below deck in the Command Information Center "Commence firing" The guns boomed out sending shells across the sea and into Lebanon at the rate of 16 a minute Each shell landed near the contested town of Souk el-Gharb perhaps 20 seconds after firing That was the sequence of the Virginia's barrage earlier this week in support of the hard-hit Lebanese By DAN WILLIAMS Herald Staff Writer ABOARD THE USS VIRGINIA The captain of this nuclear-powered missile cruiser put his sailors on Condition 3 alert "Man all gunnery stations" called out the boatswain's mate on the bridge Gunners scrambled to the tight quarters below where they control the weapons that would hurl 70- pound shells into the mountains about five miles away Please turn to PHONES I4A Please turn to RIOT 28A Please turn to NAVY17A 31 4-4 4 er 4 44 4' 4 4 14 44 444 44 Autumn due Friday but frost puts bite on the summer's tail Atilt puts Eastern's leader grounds his pay for ailing airline Bois Idaho 346 Twin Fails Idaho 20 'Bois 11 Idaho 34 Choyonno Chicago 39 25 Wyo -I 1 13 111 I 34 Chynns Chicago 39: Twin Falls Idaho 25 Wyo 20 13 16 1 Billings Mont 33 Williston ND Omaha Neb 34 Denim W---1 St Louis Mo 40 gillie mom 33 Williston ND 20 AllAt 1001 I Omaha Neb 34 Denvw 31 St Louis Mo 40 forecasters say And when it arrives in northern and central Florida today the weakened cold front will set no low temperature records they say After one of the hottest summers and the hottest August ever recorded a bitter taste of Great Plains winter preceded fall which will officially arrive at 12:33 am Friday From the Rockies to east of the Missis By GEORGE STEIN Herald Stall Writer The tomatoes and marigolds died frozen in chilly Cheyenne Wyo It was 20 degrees Wednesday morning "It was very sad" the gardener said In frigid Valentine Neb the school principal canceled outdoor gym classes The temperature was 16 A pre-fall cold wave which set record lows in the nation's midsection Wednesday will bypass South Florida altogether By GEORGE Herald Staff Wr The tomat zen in chilly grees Wedn sad" the gat In frigid principal ca The tempera A pre-fall lows in the day will by Kansas City 37 Kansas City 37 Oklahoma City 39 Little Rock Ark 44 1 Abilene Texas 43 Fort Worth Texas 45 I -z----n joAustin Texas 53 Kansas City 37 t-ir-- Oklahoma City 39 Little Rock Ark 44 1 Cold sets or or matches record for Sept 21 I Please turn to COLD 15A Watt fires a scattershot of insults Section Section Regional News Living Today Regional is1( Living Toth What Watt Saki By MARTIN MERZER Herald Business Writer Eastern Airlines Chairman Frank Borman trying to dramatize the need for sacrifices by his work force will cut his own salary from about $331000 a year to a month company officials said Monday In a letter distributed to Eastern employes Wednesday Borman sought an across-the-board wage cut of up to 20 per cent and reduc- tions in vacations and some other benefits 0-1505' Company officials said Borman was eager to show his employes 1 that he too was willing to make a sacrifice to help return the financially ailing company to profitabili- ty "The primary reason is to inchcate very strong signals to the employes that everything they have Borman heard about our losses and about the importance of the latest wage-concession proposals is absolutely said Richard McGraw an Eastern spokesman According to company financial documents Borman earned $331524 in salary and another $81000 in benefits during 1982 His 1983 salary and benefits were believed to be at about the same level according to company officials McGraw said that Borman's self-imposed salary cut would begin immediately and would last "as long as necessary" The announcement marked the beginning of East-era's attempt to persuade its 37500 employes (including 12500 in South Florida) to accept the new wage and benefit reductions Officials said the new concessions which follow 'Li Palm Beach News Sec P13 Amuse GC Goren 23E Bishop 23E Horoscope 23E Business 11D Landers 3C Classified 17D Lat News 26A Comics 22E Movies 6C Crossword 22E People 2A Deaths 4B Rubin 1D Editorials 30A Television GB Fla News 4A Weather 2A Palm Beach Amuse Bishop 22 Business 11 Classified 17 Comics 22 Crossword 22 Deaths 4 Editorials 30 Fla News 1 1 'We have every kind of mixture you can have I have a black I have a woman two Jews and a cripple And we have talent' 46p sc I 'k From Herald Wire Services WASHINGTON Interior Secretary James Watt drew laughs when he told a business group Wednesday the commission reviewing his embattled coal-leasing program is loaded with talented minorities "a black a woman two Jews and a cripple" but he later issued an apology Watt made the remarks in a speech defending his energy-development programs at a breakfast meeting of 200 lobbyists from the US Chamber of Commerce Amid the torrent of criticism that followed from commission members Jews blacks members of Congress environmentalists and the handicapped Watt issued a statement calling his words Commission member Richard Gordon a coal-policy expert from Pennsylvania State University said In a telephone interview that Watt called him shortly after the speech said he had made the remarks "in jest" and apologized for referring to him as a "cripple" Gordon's right arm is paralyzed "Depending on how you define crippled I am the cripple and I am one of the Jews I fit two of them Watt's categories" Gordon said after hearing a tape of Watt's remarks "I am disturbed that he decided to describe our race religion and other characteristics" Watt appointed the five-member panel at the behest of Congress to investigate charges that his coal-Please turn to WATT24A Dimwits Copyrighte1913 Thi 'Miami Herald Contefits Citpyritit II I k)1 I A I "I have apologized to the one member of the commission who is handicapped" Watt said in a statement "I remain very proud of the commission which is made up of highly talented people reflecting a broad cross section of our population" Today's Chuckle You're only young once but you can be immature Watt Please turn to BORMAN 14it A 1 1.