The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 24

2B The Miami Herald Saturday February 2 1985 F-2 License for WFAB radio awarded after long battle 1 appealed as did Community Broadcasting Appeals and counter appeals followed and according to Tricarico the latest decision can be appealed as long as it is done by Feb 25 this point I know if Milian said spent about $250000 of my own money on very he said understand why the FCC would give a license to people with no radio the FCC only gave licenses to people with responded Prio de Duran would be very for fraudulently billing advertisers The station was biggest competitor when he was news director of WQBA William Tricarico an FCC official in Washington said the eight-year wait was unusual years is an extremely long he conceded but added that the case was peppered with appeals by the four companies vying for the license Under normal circumstances it takes the agency about 18 months to reach a decision An FCC judge had initially given the license to Milian but after a review in early 1982 it ruled in favor of one of competitors Milian Meek believe The FCC decision is a disappointment for broadcaster Emilio Milian an outspoken critic of anti-Castro terrorism who lost his legs when his station wagon was bombed in 1976 Milian has been trying to control his own radio station since he was fired from his job as news director of WQBA radio is an he said But despite the ruling Milian vows he return to radio The scramble for license began in 1977 soon after the FCC ordered the station off the air 1 I -y if Convicted killer of go-go dancer gets death sentence he requested vi if 1 A convicted murderer already under a death sentence as an aide Jury foreman Douglas Perrine said the jurors thought at first that Gilliam at a great disadvantage But it later became apparent that it was part of his tactic of getting a mistrial or a reversal He was trying to change the argument from whether he killed Joyce Malone to whether or not he was getting a fair could see right through said Perrine a marine biologist was acting and doing it very Mastos said Friday he was ordering a death sentence because Marlowe a horrible vicious cruel The woman was raped repeatedly kicked in the head bitten on the face and breast and strangled an Dade assistant medical examiner told the jurors made my stomach turn more than once in this the judge said die a better death than this woman GILLIAM from IB defend himself Adelstein and Surowiec remained in court seated in the first-row of the spectator section to advise Gilliam Adelstein repeatedly asked Mastos to order an emergency psychiatric evaluation of Gilliam Adelstein declared The judge however said Gilliam was I think cunning and manipulative You have tested the system Mr During the trial Gilliam sobbed appeared to be in a trance refused to participate in jury selection and often argued with the judge about routine court procedures When asked by the judge what he wanted for lunch Gilliam demanded When handed a pen Gilliam said he preferred pencils When Mastos ordered jail officials to open the law library for use Gilliam added two demands: access to the library at 1:30 am and another inmate a i wf I 'fy BATTLE VAUGHAN Miami Herald Staff was his own lawyer in slaying of dancer robbers flee after terrorizing customers the loot Police call it large Somebody hit a silent hold-up alarm but when police arrived the robbers had gone leaving some of the women victims crying The man forced to open the safe was also weeping were standing round wiping away the said Police Officer Michael Murphy who has a gun pointed at them is shaken up a little bit kind of ironic that it happened right across the street from the Metrorail Murphy said are several hundred employees out said King Elliott spokesman for the Metro-Dade Transportation we would have 50 or 60 who wear that sort of uniform They are rental Soiled uniforms are picked up and the clean ones delivered he said who works for the rental company the laundry or the del ery service could have access to Elliott said he has not heard of any uniforms being stolen The robbers are black with the man in the baseball cap 6 feet tall 189 pounds and in his 30s according to the FBI The other man was shorter about 5 feet 1 1 inches tall weighed about 170 and was younger in his mid-20s have no idea how they got said FBI spokesman Joseph del Campo nickel-plated revolver The other weapon was blue steel They confronted the guard marched six employees and two customers into a back washroom and forced them to lie on the floor A bank employee a gun at his head was forced to open the safe for the robbers who also emptied the drawers They left the coins behind There is no mistaking the attire police said The two victimized customers were Metrorail employees themselves at the bank to cash their paychecks Friday was pay day for Dade County The bank had big bucks on hand to cash county paychecks an investigator said The FBI refused to divulge the amount of BUCHANAN gun-waving stick-up men herded customers and a guard Friday and cleaned out a section bank in broad daylight escaped lugging away the bags robbers wore Metrorail uniforms Metro-Dade police and the FBI Bank at 7220 NW 72nd from the huge main storage facility for Metrorail the robbers clad in the brown the tan shirts with the insignia of Metrorail maintenance walked into the bank baseball cap and brandished a Jury awards man $406000 in suit against Southern Bell charges to be filed shredding of papers By CARLOS BRICENO Herald Writer Eight years after first Spanish-language radio station was forced off the air and eight years after several groups asked for Federal Communications Commission approval to revive it the federal agency handed down its verdict The long fought-over license of WFAB goes to Community Broadcasting Co a group headed by Maria Teresa Saldise Florida Sen Carrie Meek and Maria Elena Prio de Duran daughter of last elected president Carlos Prio-Socarras been eight years said Consolidate facilities Fine urges By CELIA DUGGER Herald Staff Writer Persuading cities to act in unison is a little like convincing competing nations to endorse world government But attorney and civic activist Martin Fine will be doing just that Tuesday before the Metro Commission and again Wednesday before the Miami Beach Commission as he advocates a partnership of governments in running large public facilities such as the Orange Bowl the Theater of the Performing Arts and the Dade County Auditorium Fine wants to create a countywide Public Facilities Authority that would include at least three members of the Metro Commission at least two members of city commissions that contribute property to the authority and three to five members of the public His logic in advocating an authority: These public structures serve the entire county so they should be built and maintained by the entire county Otherwise he says they overburden taxpayers in one jurisdiction Fine said he voted against a $55 million bond issue to refurbish the Orange Bowl because of the unfair tax burden on Miami in paying for a stadium used by the whole county Metro Mayor Steve Clark however said he see idea becoming reality anytime soon thought is utopian in nature Implementing that theory is where you run into a lot of problems he said County Manager Merrett Stier-heim thinks a good idea provided the cities support But he asks with Dade almost at a property tax limit set by the state constitution how can the county afford to take on more public facilities that cost money to run? Fine said he is confident financing could be worked out and tell the commission how Tuesday As for Mayor comments about idealism Fine said would be flattered for any idea I have to be considered Fine said there is ample precedent for consolidating services traditionally provided in fragmented fashion He cited decisions to turn over Jackson Memorial Hospital and its library system to Dade County "Centralization of publicly owned facilities may be personally painful for public officials of a host city" he said the world thinks of us as one center and civic pride should be broad and transcendant enough to incorporate our entire area region and 3 more sought in cash case LAUNDER from IB various bank accounts in Panama and Switzerland or were directly deposited to various Miami bank Federal law requires banks and other financial institutions to report transactions of $10000 or more to the Internal Revenue Service Kellner said an appeals court ruling permits prosecution when the government proves larger amounts were divided up with intent to avoid the reporting requirement Of the 19 people charged Friday 18 were identified as Colombian nationals all living in Dade County except for Alexander Zielcke-Rubio of Barranquilla Colombia The 19th suspect is a Cuban Gilberto Yurubi of 15241 SW 55th Ter Zielcke-Rubio Edith Olave and Charles Hadlow were identified as the suspects not yet captured by the time the case was made public The statement named seven men as leaders of five money-laundering organizations: Zielcke-Rubio Yurubi Jacques Behar Salvador Saieh of 1250 NE 125th St North Miami Jacobo Cure of 12518 SW 94th Ter Robinson Rodgers and Cristobal Rodgers It called Carlos Lafaurie of 6930 Mira Flores Ave Coral Gables and Gustavo Lon-dono of 12520 SW 112th Ave the chiefs of the two groups using the laundry services In naming the rest of the suspects the announcement did not identify any as members of a particular group They are Maria Luisa Behar Diego Molano Olave Nesim Sevi Gilma Elis Saieh of 1361 NW 1 12th St Alvaro Ignacio and Ciro Fernandez of 6623 SW 140th Ave Juan Baraque of 5460 14th Ct Hialeah and Edgardo Gutierrez of 104111 SW 139th St -v Burley Gilliam Bank By EDNA Herald Staff Writer Two terrified employees into a washroom Northwest The gunmen loot in trash The bank said The Village Ave is across and maintenance At 10 am trousers and shoulder patch workers One wore a No in FERRE from state attorney as I do now the The that the know the the documents it made the 4 Ferre destroyed and told the had when it request the The newspaper Ferre legally documents after receiving records request But the the begin request was time the destroyed The Herald from bill of particulars Hall staff reasons to fire Gary secret meetings with prominent convince Gary potentially On Dec that he would FESTIVAL microphone transmitter in as well as a trash can could Limousines out Italian star had a big cinema nuovo Spanish and Recines greeted by of Boy Scout Also on his star and Jordan made the Flash different movies movie Most American Jordan said above the troupe that in the street The Miami event boasting countries and eight sideshow stars hope film for the next The crowd indicate that fortune of edition which in the face A Dade resident who claims harassment by Southern Bell ruined his janitorial business 10 years ago was awarded $406000 Friday by a Dade Circuit Court jury not said Mack Roper who in 1977 sold his business very very under what it should be It ruined my After an anonymous tipster told Southern Bell administrators that Roper had stolen 35 cases of floor wax the telephone company began calling clients asking them if their floors had been waxed recently The company also pressed grand-larceny charges against Roper In May 1981 a Dade Circuit Court jury awarded Roper $630-000 $480000 to compensate Roper for his losses and another $1 50000 in punitive damages Southern Bell appealed the award to the Third District Court of Appeals which reversed the lower decision and ordered another trial On Friday Roper was awarded $406000 said lawyer Steve Hunter Charles Mirman attorney for Southern Bell said the telephone company will once again fight the decision either through post-trial motions seeking a new trial or a reduction of damages or by appealing the decision am not surprised by the finding of the state attorney because I knew then as I do now that I did not break the Maurice Ferre Miami mayor fighting to keep his job chronology of the meetings included his account of conversations with numerous intermediaries including Gov Bob Graham Knight-Ridder Newspapers Chairman Alvah Chapman Jr Brickell Avenue developer David Weaver and lawyer Jesse McCrary Ferre said the 100 pages of documents contained his personal thoughts and he believed their release could be embarrassing Ferre said he destroyed them after consulting City Attorney Lucia Dougherty former City Attorney Jose Garcia-Pedrosa and his personal lawyer Mitchell Bloomberg Ferre said he ask them if he could destroy the documents while their public status was being contested am appalled by the malicious attempts by the editors of The Miami Herald and The attorneys Dan Paul and Richard Ovelmen to manipulate the Ferre said in a statement is bad enough for my family and I to be constantly subjected to the vicious attacks and innuendos by The Miami Heath Meriwether executive editor said: purpose is to try to make sure that a public official upholds the IB because I knew then that I did not break attorneys had argued mayor in fact did newspaper considered public record when oral request On Dec the documents newspaper that he delivered its written next day also argued that should have kept the intact until 30 days the written public lawyers contended 30-day waiting period until the written delivered By that documents had been requested two documents Ferre: the so-called he and his City developed as the for voting last Oct 25 and a detailed diary of and negotiations civic leaders to not to seek a explosive public hearing 3 Gary announced step down without Beach fires festival promoter Meriwether added that the newspaper has filed a federal civil lawsuit which asks that a judge declare the records as public and bar Ferre from any further destruction of public documents Managing Editor Pete Weitzel added: no question in my mind he violated the spirit of the ran into the same stone wall with Spring Break as with Miami Spring Fest both planned for March and April College officials unanimously vetoed the string of separate parties he planned to use to promote the two cities he said But officials at two colleges Crocco said he contacted on behalf of Miami Beach said they reserved rooms for the parties and never heard from him again after his initial request Members of the Miami Beach Visitor and Convention Authority agreed during an emergency meeting Friday to fire Crocco and hire Campus Dimensions of New York City to plaster 200 colleges in the Midwest and Northeast with 25-000 Spring Fest posters and 150-000 brochures Miami Beach fired the promoter of its troubled spring break festival Friday and decided on a less ambitious plan of campus posters Jacksonville tourism officials last month also fired Jerry Crocco after he sold them on a similar plan to detour Florida-bound collegians from the traditional party towns Jacksonville is still trying to recover $10000 it claims Crocco owes for promises he never delivered according to Terry Fitzpatrick vice president of the Visitor and Convention Bureau of Jacksonville and its Beaches Miami Beach officials want to recover $15000 they gave Crocco in advance money to plan a series of on-campus beer bashes on behalf of the city but have agreed to give him three months to repay the money Crocco said this week that he festival Home-grown film opens Police identify couple in canal accident town newspaper reporter who uncovers a scheme to despoil the environment and sides with the bad guys After Flash's credits rolled to polite applause most movie-goers went in a procession to a post-premiere party at the James Knight International Center led by the bagpipers As they walked fireworks exploded in the sky over Biscayne Bay The gala come off without a few hitches though Flash star Ed Harris best known for his John Glenn in The Right Stuff failed to make an appearance at the screening know where he said festival publicist Baird Thompson last I heard he was getting on a An 84-year-old West Kendall man who drove his car into a canal late Thursday has been identified by Metro-Dade police as Juan Demoya Demoya died shortly after his 1978 Mercedes Benz plunged from the parking lot of the Horizons West development through a fence and some bushes then into a canal wife 80-year-old Concepcion Demoya was listed in serious condition late Friday in Baptist intensive care unit She had been a passenger in the car Her husband was the driver Both husband and wife were retrieved from the flooded automobile shortly after the accident They lived in a condominium apartment at 8420 SW 133rd Avenue Rd in Horizons West IW would continue for a second year Two previous film festivals in 1978 and 1980 had succeeded mainly in losing large amounts of money A third part of the 1982 New World Festival of the Arts was a modest hit on its own but was sunk by the parent losses Not surprisingly more than a few disheartened culture mavens expected another bust when Che-diak and Bowles announced plans for the 1984 Miami Film Festival But the 1984 festival confounded the skeptics and delighted the faithful For 10 days it was the hottest ticket in town Lines snaked before the smaller Gables theaters an hour before show-times and dozens of would-be patrons were turned away from sold-out screenings prompting Chediak and Bowles to bring back several of the most popular films for an encore mini-fest a week later The showing of Flash of Green was a homecoming of sorts for Nunez It was also a premiere of sorts i Flash was shown at the New York Film Festival last fall but some reviewers complained it was too long Nunez has since cut several minutes out and re-edited other portions So the Flash screened Friday was a new film An adaptation of a John MacDonald book Flash features not Travis McGee but a small- from IB rin through a hidden in a pipe and a a black bag danced robot shaped like a be expected arrived and spewed Ugo Tognazzi who gray beard Brazilian director Carlos Die-gues director Pedro Almodovar Spanish actor Antonio (Skyline) They were the martial thumping Troop 221 hand were Nunez and producer actor Richard who explained what independently produced from Hollywood is a work of art movies raising his voice bagpipes of a Scottish had begun performing Film Festival an 37 films from 17 (including 16 US premieres one world premiere) events and film filmmakers and organizers fans galore unspools 10 days Friday seemed to the remarkable good the first opened a year ago of daupting precedent Writer admits he used JFK Author and ex-CIA employee Victor Marchetti admitted Friday that key parts of his 1978 article linking Howard Hunt with a conspiracy to kill John Kennedy were based almost solely on Washington rumors Marchetti said he heard from a Penthouse magazine columnist The columnist Bill Corson later denied in a sworn deposition even talking about the rumors with Marchetti had no corroboration of Corson story Marchetti testified but added that he knew two other reporters who were checking into the same story Hunt is in the middle of a libel suit against the ultra-conservative Liberty Lobby publisher of The Spotlight tabloid that printed article In an story headlined to Nail Hunt For Kennedy Marchetti wrote that a House investigations committee had received a 1966 internal CIA memo discussing supposed presence in Dallas the day Kennedy died The committee later reported that no such memo had been received and dismissed theories of Hunt involvement in a Kennedy plot Hunt who was never called by Marchetti for comment before the article ran has denied being in Dallas then and has produced witnesses who say he was in Washington that day I ff'rm 'hmw.