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Who benefits from charity auction? Page 1C 6rt1 Fair Mild Details on 2A Final Edition imi 76 pages Saturday April 25 1981 25 cents The US Coast Guard picked up 13 former Mariel refugees who had returned to their homeland but were imprisoned then turned out to sea by Cuba Returning Cubans are rejected set adrift at a time when some US politicians are urging that undesirable Cuban refugees be sent back to Cuba via the US Navy base at Guantanamo Bay going to happen now a game of seesaw? Fidel sends them over and we send them back and they send them back Please turn to CUBANS 1 20 A the same two boats in which they had returned to their homeland They said they were among 213 refugees who had tried to repatriate themselves because of unhappiness in the United States and had been jailed at Combinado del Este They said they believe the others also will be forcibly removed Their forced departure from Cuba comes The men were originally aboard two boats but were picked up in a single craft by the US Coast Guard Friday afternoon The men said Cuban authorities had tied the wrists of 55 refugees put them aboard eight boats and towed them out of Havana Harbor on Wednesday the anniversary of the Mariel boatlift The fate of refugees aboard the other six boats was not immediately known The 13 men who had close-cropped hair and welts on their wrists said they left Key West to return to Cuba in late October 1980 aboard two 21-foot runabouts Upon their arrival in Cuba they were jailed at the Combinado del Este prison in Havana for six months until they were towed out of Havana Harbor Wednesday aboard By ROBERT RIVAS and LIZ BALMASEDA Herald Staff Writers KEY WEST Thirteen Cuban men part of the group of disenchanted Mariel refugees who returned to their native island last fall said they were towed 40 miles out to sea Wednesday and set adrift by Cuban authorities Severe short shuts down FPL unit Reagan Lifts Grain Curbs On Russians Nuclear generator to he out for months THAT TIME AGAIN GANG TIME TO TORN THE OLD CLOCK AHEAD ONE HOUR By MIKE TONER And JAMES RISEN Herald Staff Writers A major electrical short so in- tense that it burned a hole in a steel casing and melted of iron inside a generator caused extensive damage at Florida Power and Light Turkey Point nuclear power plant this week the company reported Friday Nuclear systems at the South Dade County power plant were not involved in the accident but the company said repairs would keep the unit out of service from two to six months a shutdown that could cost FPL customers between $45 million and $135 million in additional costs for oil-generated replacement power Company officials said they were unable to estimate the cost of repairing the severely damaged generator stator the massive mul-timillion-dollar piece of equipment that contains the generator's electrical conductors "It is a big said FPL engineer Ken Harris will take a lot of Harris said that "every technical group in the was busy trying to determine the cause of the mishap learn the full extent of the damage and plan for the repairs Although the supply of electricity to the customers was not interrupted as a result of the accident FPL is anxious to have the unit back in service to meet the anticipated heavy summer demand for power The Westinghouse Corp which supplied the electrical generator and stator for the plant quickly began scouring the country for possible replacements a solution that could keep the costly shutdown to a minimum of "two or three are large multimillion dollar pieces of equipment and no one keeps spares lying around on Please turn to POWER 4A By DAVE BARTEL Herald Washington Bureau WASHINGTON President Reagan on Friday kept his campaign vow and ended the controversial grain embargo against the Soviet Union The embargo imposed nearly 16 months ago by then-President Carter after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan has been ineffective and US farmers have been unfairly singled out to bear the brunt of a national policy he said The only official comment from the Kremlin was a Tass news agency report that attributed decision to the economic suffered by the United States The embargo hurt above all American farmers and presented the United States in an unfavorable light in front of the whole world as an unreliable trading Tass said Ending the embargo means US farmers faced with a possible cut in federal aid have access again to one of their largest cash customers And within hours of decision a Soviet delegation began talks at the Agriculture Department on possible new grain purchases feel confident that we have a very adequate supply of grain to satisfy our domestic needs as well as other customers and the Agriculture Secretary John Block said About 20 million tons of wheat and 6 million tons of corn are in storage indicating that US customers would not face higher prices even if the Soviets make purchases he added USDA officials said the Soviets may need about five million tons of grain for delivery through September and the United States "could supply some portion of Block said he was confident that a long-term pact with the Soviets could be arranged to replace the five-year pact that ends Sept 30 That agreement continued throughout the embargo allowing the Soviets to purchase up to eight million tons of grain Farm leaders and grain-belt members of Congress hailed decision indicating he had cleared up a politically embarrassing issue that threatened his economic package and proposals for cuts in farm aid Lifting the embargo was expected to give farm prices a psychological boost But the full impact will not be known until the Soviets make firm purchase offers Grain prices now are generally above those of Jan 4 1980 the day the Please turn to GRAIN 8A Carrying on Ronald Biggs Train the happiest man in the Biggs said walks out of the airport in Rio de Janeiro Fri- in Rio is a wonderful country so day a free man reunited with his six-year-old happy to be back and to see my son (See son Mike A Barbadian ruling on Thurs- story Page 8D) day saved Biggs from extradition to Britain Northern Ireland ready to blow if IRA fast ends in death BILL KITCHEN Miami Herald Staff Time change coming with hotter days By MIKE CLARY Herald Staff Writer The mercury is creeping up the wind is shifting and time skips on The clock joins hands with the weather Sunday to leave South Florida an hour later and another degree hotter At 2 am' Daylight Saving Time (DST) spins the clock ahead to 3 and by afternoon the average temperature rises to 84 degrees Only the complaints remain the same Jack Horkheimer like DST used said the director of the Miami Space Transit works up North but here it just costs us money for air Forecaster Gil Clark at the National Hurricane Center said he too hears objections to the semi-annual temporal tinkering like it because they can play outdoors longer but parents be- cause they get them to he said The complaints notwithstanding DST is coming in just in time for the summer weather Clark is able to explain meteorologically what everyone knew this week by the sweat on his brow: hot "For most of April an area of high pressure over the Atlantic gave us an easterly wind that felt cool because it came off the water which is in the said Clark "But this week the high broke down and the wind is diminished and out of the southwest bringing in warm tropical moist air Monday the drive home from work will be a hot The shift in wind with the increase in humidity is normal for this time of year and a necessary precondition for the rainy season Clark said Paper may be late Some readers may find Herald delivered later than normal because of the loss of an delivery time in the time change Telephones for missed or late pa- pers will open at 8:30 am on Sunday an hour later than usual Saturday Sampler Dow Jones soars to an 8-year high A late rally on Wall Street inspired by increased optimism about the inflation outlook sent the Dow Jones industrial average to 102035 an eight-year high5B Polish leaders Suslov apparently at odds A Soviet hardliner returns to Moscow amid strong signs that his talks with Polish leaders were marked by disagreement 8D The chant changed out! Brits they yelled their ranks suddenly swelled by shadowy figures slipping from doorways of the little red-brick terraced houses A British army patrol car sped by A barrage of bricks stones and bottles followed it not much time left the elderly man said a hint of tears in his tired eyes have lived with it so he murmured half to himself The tension surrounding the hunger strike by the outlawed Irish Republican Army pris- By DONAL United Press international BELFAST Northern Ireland "Bobby Sands Bobby Sands Bobby Sands The slow chant punctuated by handclaps echoed through the debris-littered streets of West Roman Catholic ghettos and seemed to link the restless youths with the dying prisoner on a hunger strike in the Maze prison 15 miles away "There will be trouble if he goes real muttered an elderly man watching the gathering youths Please turn to ULSTER 10 A Sands Atlanta police rule out CORE Identification of woman was incorrect The Miami Herald incorrectly identified Shirley McGill 26 of Hollywood as the Shirley McGill who told police her former boyfriend might be child killer "Maybe somebody with a name like mine in Atlanta but here in the Broward County woman said not the person not the one who knows where anybody is" she added The Shirley Jean McGill who went to Atlanta and claimed to have had information about the child killer is a Miami barmaid She has no arrest record The Hollywood woman has an extensive arrest record 23A Fla News 16A 4B Goren 7C 4C Horoscope 7C 8D Landers 2C 6C Lat News 8D 6C Legislature 17A fiC Movies 24A 3B Reddicliffe 7D 1 6 A Television 7D Amuse Business Churches Classified Comics Crossword Dance Deaths Editorials By WILLARD ROSE Herald Staff Writer ATLANTA The Congress of Racial dramatic boast that it had cracked the case of At-' baffling child slayings was firmly shot down Friday by police officials Adding another chapter to the circus-like furor surrounding the case Public Safety Commissioner Lee Brown said information "turned out to be not factual" But CORE director Roy Innis stuck to his story "We still consider our own suspect a key link to breaking the case" he said Innis said CORE is going to give police a little more time to act on its information and then do anything it takes to bring this to a successful conclusion" police said a result of a number of investigative Brown said "we have determined that the man is not a suspect at this A police source said the man named by witness took a polygraph test at the request of investigators Brown refused to confirm that Brown took pains to stress that police do not question the of the witness or of Innis who had warned earlier that CORE would the collar" of the alleged killer if the police refused to act on the New York-based civil rights organization's information "We appreciate the fact that many people have beliefs and theo- ricase turn to ATLANTA 1 20 A 1 The Herald regrets the error Content! CopyrlghtlOBI The Miami Herald Chuckle CORE officials had claimed for to the FBI investigators inter-two days that they had a "secret viewed a Miami woman who is who can finger one of the "witness" along with the killers of at least six black children alleged killer himself a former boy-uer CORE took its information friend the witness "for several Sign on a pottery display: of -4 At Mm.