The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 331

Bird Road Rapist Getting Bolder Police Fear 16 Attacks Begin With Flashing Lights Gnu The rapist usually strikes between 2 and 4 am on Friday Saturday and Sunday mornings He usually begins to follow his target and blink his lights on Bird Road or US 1 Despite the frequency of his crimes and the growing number of victim-witnesses his description is confused and contradictory the victims are doing is looking at that gun and saying God let him kill Heller said THE 16 VICTIMS who have talked to police describe the rapist as: Anglo or Latin He has a slight Spanish accent police say it could be faked Any age from early 20s to mid-30s Anywhere from 5-feet-2 to 5-feet-11-inches tall Turn to Page 6B Col 1 By EDNA BUCHANAN Htt ald Staff Writer He drives by night flashing his headlights persistently at lone female motorists Some think he is a policeman instructing them to pull over and obey Others don't stop until he drives alongside points a 45-automatic pistol at them and orders them to the side of the road when the terror begins He is the Bird Road rapist responsible for 16 cases i-ight of hem sex attacks and eight attempts Police are certain there are others unreported all on heavily traveled Southwest-section thoroughfares in the area of Bird Road and US 1 is becoming more said Metro Rape Squad Lt Richard Calvert is getting bolder and more violent He is more brazen and striking more The sense of urgency is real WANT TO apprehend him before he kills said Rape-Robbery Captain Irving Heller thing that frightens us is that we know he has a They call the rapist a a sex offender whose crimes become more and more serious consider this to be a major case" Heller said Female detectives drove unmarked cars with male colleagues on the back-seat floor for hours early Saturday in the area where the rapist has stalked his victims Supervisors trailed them up and down Brickell Avenue and Bird Road Again the net came up empty far he blinked his lights at cruising police Calvert said More than 400 man-hours of stake-outs and surveillance have been spent stalking the Bird Road rapist not including intensive uniform patrol by officers from South Southwest and West Districts THE INVESTIGATION has been so intense that Calvert who has personally supervised the effort pulled up behind a female motorist at a traffic light planning to fall back to watch if anyone approached her and was quickly nabbed by patrol units who suspected him amiami Debate CHARLES WHITED Gets oisy Best Cops Ha ve Reasons to Quit And They Do Dave Green grew up in Dade County Twenty years ago he became a Metro cop He worked the past decade in the Organized Crime Bureau chasing racketeers illegal gamblers white-collar hoods At age 40 Green was a sergeant With overtime he earned around $25000 a year A man with so much street savvy experience and contacts is part of the backbone of any police agency Dave Green quit MURRY Herald Staff and Ariis Williams playing the Rubber Band Man for the kids Community Rally Against Crime (CRAC) an outreach group working to instill positive attitudes Rally Up disco day down at Bicentennial Park Airport Expansion Lpsets Neighbors By STEPHEN DOIG Herald Staff Writer Depending on whom you believe Tamiami General Aviation Airport in South Dade is either a big headache or the perfect remedy for one The Federal Aviation Administration believes the latter The agency has just announced funding for a sophisticated instrument landing system and is considered likely to approve a proposed $21 million 2700-foot extension of the main runway All this is designed to make Tamiami more attractive to the noncommercial aviation traffic that by 1985 threatens to overload the already-strained capacity of Miami International Airport a dozen miles north BUT IN THE rapidly growing West Kendall area the prospect of increased use of Tamiami already the 12th busiest in the country in terms of takeoffs and landings is being greeted with alarm by $100 000-homeowners who fear that 707s soon will be rattling the Picasso prints off their walls "We will oppose it to the governor and to the federal courts if we says Alan Markowitz president of the 302-member Devonaire Homeowners Association The subdivision lies about two miles east of the airport He argues that not only will there be increased noise but that South American that don't meet American safety standards will be flying overhead is little cause for con- Bud Carr head of planning for the Dade County Aviation Department insists noise footprint is quite is airport jargon for the zone considered too noisy for homes based on such factors as loudness time of day or night and number of times it happens IN THE CASE of Tamiami Carr assures the foot will be shod in sneakers Even by the end of the century he says the boundary representing at its edges the degree of Miami International aircraft noise heard on Miami Beach falls entirely within airport property or areas zoned for agriculture or industry In seeking federal approval to ex-Turn to Page 4B Col 1 among young people threw the outdoor party an event that featured a few words about where the life of crime can lead one High-Flying Pilots Worry FA A Medics ing to James Harris the seminar director and the chief of the aeromcdical education branch Nor are general practioners as familiar with drugs used in treating psychotics And that led to brouhaha have a lot of faith in anti-psychotic one doctor in the audience told Peter A Mansky alone among the five panel members who said he would fly with the pilot being treated with lithium "I wouldn't fly with him An airplane is the perfect vehicle for suicide" TO MANSKY a psychiatrist on the faculty of Albany Medical College in Albany NY the controversy over lithium symbolizes the difficulties most general practioners have in keeping up with new developments in specialized fields of these people deal with psychotics or lithium he said Lithium carbonate a prescription drug compounded from an alkaline metal has emerged in the past five years as an effective treatment for severe treatment for severe manic-depressives Non-narcotic lithium often prevents the dramatic swings in emotions that prevent some patients from functioning normally and allows many psychiatric patients to hold responsible In fact following the exchange between Mansky and the audience panel moderator Dr Richard Butler the regional flight surgeon in Atlanta told the doctors that atleast one air traffic controller working in the southern region is a psychiatric patient being treated with lithium THAT IN TURN brought forth other rumblings from the floor Butler said later he surprised that it got that violent a He said the traffic controller in this case had been certified by the surgeon general in Washington and was being monitored closely Dr Stanley Ilanfling a psychiatrist from San Mateo Calif and a member of the panel said he disagreed with Mansky on this particular case not because of the lithium but rather because of the hypothetical pilot's case history He added he did not think patients under treatment with lithium carbonate should necessarily be banned from either flying or working as air traffic controllers "The i'AA is extremely he said In other sessions scheduled during the three-day conference which ends today the doctors were briefed on ways to detect among pilots signs of dependence on alcohol and drugs By MIKE CLARY Herald Staff Writer Would you fly in an airplane piloted by a 30-year-old man who had once attempted suicide had undergone eight electroconvulsion shock treatments and whose volatile mdod shifts from manic highs to depressive lows were being controlled by regular doses of lithium? That was the hypothetical question before 128 physicians attending a Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) medical meeting Saturday at the Carillon Hotel in Miami Beach And one answer to the question prompted an uproar that typifies the aviation medical problems in dealing with a group whose incidence of drug and alcohol addiction is more and more being brought out into the open THE FAA estimates that some 5 per cent of the 49000 commercial pilots are alcoholics In the past few years with the exception of Northwest Airlines Inc every US airline has started an rehabilitation program The rate of drunkenness among the 700000 general aviation pilots is even more acute according to the FAA Drug abuse is not as great a problem accord ting in South Florida or thinking about it with eight 10 or 15 years on the job Cops on vacation are looking for jobs There are multiple reasons The threat of a Metro tax revolt next month cutting county funds to the bone has sapped county police morale Some 350 police jobs would be erased There would be numerous budgetary demotions Police also are defensive over brutality exposes public second-guessing of action in the heat of street combat the firing of Sheriff Wilson Purdy AT THE CITY of Miami Police Department American-born white cops with time service feel blocked from promotion by recent court mandates that blacks and Latins be moved into the upper command Stationhouse frustrations over the criminal-justice system range from release of felons on low bonds or no bonds to plea bargaining and judicial leniency in white-collar crimes Bad guys go free time after time on technicalities Amid all this there is the wooing of experienced police by other agencies both public and private at better wages This disclosure that Houston Tex will hire 50 to 100 additional officers and is looking to Dade County for applicants is an example Dave Green is among those going into private security work He talked of his discontents in a lengthy taped interview with Herald Investigations Editor James Savage GREEN SEES: Crime flourishing in a South Florida that attracts every illegal activity from narcotics to bookmaking and street assault a haven for every crud in the United Street policemen reluctant to move aggressively in confrontations for fear of being accused of overreacting or brutality police are constantly criticized the community suffers You force them police) to be more careful by doing less The potential for disaster if voters next month do approve the radical cut of Metro taxes scares me to think of what this area will be like My advice to people will be to YOU LINED them all up from the Courthouse how far would the line stretch? To And for the police officer there is the never-ending pressure the donning of the bulletproof vest the combat mentality the threat of lawsuit and repercussion In a way Green is glad over for him not worth it The salary high enough the danger is too great the pressures too severe Whatever you do you risk being criticized Every day you have these problems these pressures ridiculous for anyone to want to be a police officer a stupid job If you want excitement But then: loved the job I never thought live through the whole career I wake up every night regretting that I Culmer 20 Years Old God-Fearing Family Shares Day of Roots Stewart has 14 children 74 grandchildren 85 great-grandchildren and last and least two great-great-grandchildren Like many of the Paulk descendants she lives in Miami Annie Stewart remembers her grandmother talking about who owned her as a slave that family is the source of the Paulk name but she now thinks the country's fine for blacks Just keep NO ONE KNOWS how the family reunions began But the first was held in 1976 we come together except for a sad said Viola Hodge one of children The family has said William Ashley 30 "No one ever is down or sick without finding someone in the family to come in to give some form of This morning Ashley said family members will take their relatives with them to church Many of those occupying pulpits will be relatives And afterwards all are invited to welcome the newest addition to the family Hosea David Smith and his bride are getting married this afternoon By PETER ELKIND Herald Writer Descendants of the late David and Annie Paulk say the most notable things about their family are that religious and large There was ample proof of both Saturday as some 200 family members including at least 10 preachers attended an annual reunion at the Bayfront Park Auditorium The family's roots lie in Georgia where David Paulk was a sharecropper But now the clan is scattered across more than a dozen states and carries at least that many names Carrin Martin for example a granddaughter of the original Paulks who flew in from California with her husband and brother because love my THEN the Rev Rash Smith a minister at the First Mt Pleasant Baptist Church in Fort Lauderdale Also a third-generation family member Smith is the son of Maudie Smith who had ten sons Five of them are preachers I can say is the doings of the Almighty said Rash The family members are simply And of course Annie Stewart at 83 the oldest living member its grande dame By SARA RIMER Herald Staff Writer After two decades the rats the roaches and the roofs that leak in the inner-city slums of Culmer now arc an emergency No less than the Dade County State" Office has declared them so State Attorney Janet Reno who drives through dreary narrow streets on her way to appointments downtown says she means business She is going after the rats and the roaches and she is going after the landlords absentee landlords most of them who have allowed their buildings to crumble and decay until in the legalcse of the State Office constitute a public ARE GOING to make sure the building and zoning codes are enforced particularly with reference to human safety and human living she said anyone who thinks going to agree to court orders and then going to forget about them has another thing To that Ann-Marie Adker who was born in Culmer 54 years ago who raised six children there who admits that slum life leaves her little worried in spirit who serves on the Culmer Interim Task says: we welcome them with open Reno began her cleanup two months ago with a six-agency task force formed to investigate building-code violations within the 1 -square-mile neighborhood of an estimated 18600 people bounded by the Miami River and the intersection of the 836 express-! Turn to Pag 28 Col 1 MURRY SILL Miami Herald Staff R'J-Year-Old Annie Slewarl with ffreul-ftrandchihl Tvmictt Lunson.