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SSS2 Mariams 2 minority firemen refuse promotions LOCAL NEWS ID gpca an toe smbot Tonight The Tonight Show turns 30 LIVING TODAY IB STANDOFF Royals fall 2-0 still lead by IV2 sports ic A Mostly Cloudy Details on 2A Final Edition 96 pages Thursday September 27 1984 25 cents sidore hits coast with Study sees Metrorail use down Projections far below figures ram Tv-v 54 JOE RIMKUS JR Miami Herald Sta Warringer tapes a storefront window in Fort By RA ZALDIVAR Herald Staff Writer Metrorail will carry less than half the originally expected number of passengers once it is completed according to a study made for the Metro Commission but never given to it by transit officials The study which has been in Metro files for over a year is considered by chief transit planner as the most accurate assessment to date of potential Metrorail ridership It is significant because the lower the ridership the more taxpayers will have to pay to keep Metrorail running Original Metrorail ridership projections prepared in 1978 by the Kaiser Transit Group estimated the system would be carrying 202000 passengers a day after two years of operation That number has been used publicly by Metro officals ever since However a new study submitted in mid-1983 by Gannett Fleming puts daily ridership at just 86032 by 1990 The study was paid for by the state and done for the Metro Commission Commissioners have never been given the ridership i results should have been released said County Manager Merrett Stierheim "If the most accurate figure it should have been released and the fact that it is Stierheim said an aide told him -about the Gannett Fleming study for the first time in August He has not read the report The gap between current and previous ridership projections is causing concern among federal officials in Washington and has prompted Metro to ask Kaiser for a new study is a credibility loss locally and iff when patronage estimates vary so widely said Ralph Stanley head of the Urban Mass Transportation Administration (UMTA) you say you can build something for this cost or say: are the ridership and they even come within a close range the skepticism heightens as to whether anything you want to do in the future is Said Stierheim: lease turn to METRORAIL 1 4 A Shelter List If Tropical Storm Isidore intensifies it may be necessary to seek shelter Late Wednesday no such evacuation had been ordered Listen to radio and television for the latest advisory on the storm and possible evacuation A full list of shelters is on Page 23A Also Inside Zoo gets ready 22A Pace a concern 22A Residents stock up 22A Beach school officials said they would decide early this morning if an unscheduled holiday was necessary In Palm Beach County wind-driven waves on top of unusually high tides eroded beaches and undercut a 35-foot stretch of State Road A1A in Palm Beach Citrus growers in Martin St Lucie and Indian River counties frantically burned seedlings bought from canker-infested nurseries so the disease be spread by the driving rains South Florida boaters were taking no chances got boats going upriver like rats deserting a sinking said Fort Lauderdale dockmaster Jack Hornor whose office overlooks the water been busy About 50 F-4 Phantom fighter jets were evacuated from Homestead Air Force Base to bases in South Carolina But bar owners hoping for hurricane-party crowds were glum anything the news has hurt our business because people are going home and preparing for it I Please turn to STORM 22A i b- frnirr 50 J6 MILES Atlantic Ocean 27' ABACO ISLAND BAHAMA ISLANDS 26' BERRY ISLANDS ELEUTHERA tfP5 ISLAND PM Nassau 6 AM I Wednesday 24 77' 76' RICK BROWNLEE Miami Herald Stall BIMINI Midnight Wednesday 6 Wednesday 9 PM Wednesday wind Storm near force of hurricane By ARNOLD MARKOWITZ And STEPHEN DOIG Herald Staff Writers Tropical Storm Isidore began to push steady rain and blustery winds onto the South Florida coast late Wednesday night less than a day after it was born over the Bahamas At midnight Isidore and its 50 mile per hour gales were centered about 100 miles offshore and moving toward Miami between 5 and 10 mph Forecasters said if Isidore continued its pace through the night it was unlikely the winds would be much above 50 mph when Isidore came ashore this morning a long way from even a minimal hurricane ami even a little hurricane all that big a threat except to marine interests in South said forecaster Paul Hebert South Florida residents nervous about their first brush with a tropical storm since Hurricane David hit Palm Beach in 1979 began the storm preparations they had put off since the hurricane season began in June Hardware stores were selling out of flashlight batteries Groceries reported a brisk trade in canned goods and bottled water The storm coming on the first night of Rosh Hashana was a particular trial for Orthodox Jews who must not drive or watch television on the holy days But William Schwartz was undaunted on his wet trek to Temple Ohev Shalom in Miami Beach nothing to walk in the rain to come to Schwartz said I was in concentration camps in Europe and I survived I can walk in a little bad Dade and Broward schools already were slated to be closed for a teacher planning day Palm typical drug prosecution ends when a defense lawyer gets his client out on bail Most suspects never return for trial The horror stories that surfaced during recent hearings by a Commission of Inquiry disgraced the legal profession and outraged its reputable members am absolutely appalled and sickened by what I hear from the Commission of said Geoffrey Johnstone a senior partner in oldest law firm like a bolt out of the blue I was only taken unawares as to the extent of the rot in the legal In fact the willingness of Baha Reagan protection for feeling the effects our intelligence came He during those years and get rid added we Reagan did said would referring to the Stansfield Turner intelligence following critical the CIA in the 3 PM' Wednesday ANDROS' ISLAND Shultz-Gromyko talks touch on arms issues Reagan blames bombing on CIA cutbacks in 1970s Maintenance worker Rick Lauderdale ar Vero Beach Fort FLORIDA Jupiter 27 Lake Okeechobee Palm Beach Fort Lauderdale Naples Hollywood Miami jj Perrine Gutfot Farida City Mexico Oa 1 25 KEY WEST Flofl( 80c remove its intermediate-range Pershing 2 and cruise missiles from Europe The Soviet decision to talk about the subject now even though the US missiles remain in Europe seemed to illustrate an improvement in the atmosphere between the two nations A senior US official listed the topic along with problems the bilateral relationship humanitarian and human rights as having been discussed by Shultz and Gromyko during their meeting of almost three hours He would not provide any details but it seemed clear that Please turn to SHULTZ 14A Lawyers By JIM McGEE And CARL HIAASEN Herald Staff Writers Drug lawyers in the Bahamas are accused of fixing cases passing bribes tampering with evidence laundering money betraying police secrets and securing airstrips for their smuggler clients This alleged collusion by a handful of prominent lawyers lies at the core of corruption in the Bahamas and explains why the criminal justice system is a joke to drug smugglers There is almost nothing that some Nassau drug lawyers do for their smuggler clients according to testimony before a responded by saying he would improve other embassies He added today of the near destruction of capability in recent years before we said there was a public attitude that is somehow dishonest of our intelligence He then did that to a large not elaborate but a White House aide not be to assume he was efforts of CIA director Adm to remove several hundred operatives largely in covert operations congressional investigations into 1970s remarks and the angry Democratic Please turn to CIA 14 A From Herald Wire Services BOWLING GREEN Ohio President Reagan Wednesday blamed the suicide car-bomb attack on the US Embassy in Beirut that killed two Americans last week on near of US intelligence capability before he became president in 1981 Answering a question after a campaign speech at Bowling Green State University Reagan appeared to be trying to shift responsibility for the attack away from his administration and onto that of former President Carter Reagan did not mention Lebanon in his prepared speech but a university senior Peggy Fitzgerald asked him about plans to beef up security at other embassies following the attack in Beirut last Thursday the third such fatal bombing attack against US installations in Lebanon in 17 months By NORMAN KEMPSTER Los Angeles Times Service NEW YORK Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko discussed nuclear arms control issues Wednesday the first time that high officials of the two countries have held talks on the subject since the Soviets broke off the strategic arms reduction negotiations late last year When Shultz and Gromyko last met in Stockholm in January the Soviet foreign minister refused to discuss arms control issues reiterating position that there was nothing to talk about until the United States agreed to moEii George Shultz: Nothing of substance decided accused of Bahamas Commission of Inquiry Need an island? The lawyer goes shopping Need a place to hide your cash? The lawyer goes banking Need a drug case fixed? There are lawyers who do that too or promise that they can If a smuggler loses his plane or boat to police the lawyer tries to fixing cases passing bribes mian lawyers to exploit the bank secrecy laws has transformed Nassau into a full-service center for drug smugglers makes the whole system declared Commission Chief Counsel Robert Ellicott only is the Bahamas a transhipment point for the drugs but the banking system is being The commission heard drug-related allegations against some of best-known attorneys: Godfrey Pinder a scholarly barrister allegedly was tape recorded trying to bribe a drug evidence Please turn to LAWYERS 18A get it back Some do better than that One Nassau lawyer brazenly demanded that two million Quaa-ludes seized in a drug raid be returned to a smuggler Incredibly a magistrate agreed Since most smugglers arrested in the Bahamas are foreigners the Contorts Copyright Miami Horild CHUCKLE Budgetary motto: I have seen the future and it is expensive.