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FnflPD cnnnGEs BBS in receivership may not open today BUSINESS NEWS 6D fl TOUGH TEST Schedule gives Dolphins two cold-weather games SPORTS NEWS 1C GOOD LOOKS Stars patients use Ari eyes LIVING TODAY IB Partly Cloudy Details on 2A Final Edition F-2 mm 98 pages Thursday April 11 1985 25 cents 4 Signing off Early days Ralph Renick resigns after 35 years on TV Trading on his trust IB held at the station for more than three decades to pursue the possibility of seeking public office with a candidacy for Florida governor in 1986 apparently paramount among the options he will explore Renick did however leave open the possibility that should he decide not to run for office or should he run and lose he might one day return to television public goodbye to journalism came in the form of a 2 Vi-minute retrospective and explanation at the tail end of Channel 6 pm newscast Wednesday the customary position from which he for years had delivered his show-ending commentaries followed by his trademark signoff: and may the good news be Wednesday he added hopefully a Please turn to RENICK 20 A By STEVE SONSKY Herald Television Writer The man who proffered the good news for 35 years in South Florida has taken his leave Ralph Renick who has been synonymous with South Florida television since he pioneered evening newscasts here on July 17 1950 who was the longest-running anchorman in the nation and who until last November had never been bested by a rival newscast announced Wednesday that he is stepping down immediately from his position as anchor and news director at WTVJ-Channel 4 Renick 56 said he was leaving the post he had MARY LOU FOY Miami Herald Staff Renick walks off the set after his goodbye for summit Gorbachev makes pitch to 20A Associated Press rrmce or a governor Gov Bob Graham in a parody of rock star Prince struts Skits in Tallahassee Each year Graham has a contest with the across the stage Wednesday night with the Florida State press to see who can come up with the most extravagant Golden Girls in tow during the annual Capital Press Corps presentation Last year he spoofed singer Jimmy Buffett By OWEN ULLMANN Herald Washington Bureau SANTA BARBARA Calif The White House in an abrupt turnaround on superpower summitry declared Wednesday that President Reagan is now eager to meet with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev if only to In what amounted to a 24-hour reversal of criteria for a summit meeting national security adviser Robert McFarlane said a meeting could take place as soon as Gorbachev is willing without a and without any goal of significant achievement McFarlane said a date and place for a meeting had not been arranged yet but he raised the prospect of a get-together in New York this fall in conjunction with either the opening of the UN General Assembly in September or the 40th anniversary of the United founding in October Until Wednesday the president and his aides publicly had ruled out holding a meeting merely to get to know the new Kremlin leader Reagan had emphasized as recently as March 21 at his last formal news conference the importance he gave to a carefully planned agenda and the prospect of tangible improvements in US-Soviet relations latest statements however suggest that Reagan the first US president in more than half a century not to have met with his Soviet counterpart now is eager to meet with Gorbachev under any circumstances but wants to dampen expectations of any major breakthrough in relations One possibility for this change of heart administration officials suggested is that Reagan who previously could overshadow doddering Soviet leaders on the global IUD award OKd ID By JUDITH RANDAL New York Daily News Service WASHINGTON Childless women who may want to have a baby later should avoid using intrauterine devices for birth control because IUDs increase their risk of permanent infertility two scientists reported Wednesday In separate government-funded studies Dr Janet Daling of the University of Washington and Dr Daniel Cramer of Harvard University found an association between IUD use and later infertility caused by infection in the tubes through which eggs must pass if they are to reach the womb The scarring from the infection which doctors call pelvic inflammatory disease so damages the tubes that the eggs cannot make the journey the scientists explained In both the Daling and Cramer studies women who had worn an IUD were twice as likely to have new drug fear is the fix Please turn to IUD 120 A California goes so goes the rest of the Frank Chellino DEA spokesman got Jarvik-7 Swedes say From Herald Wire Services STOCKHOLM Sweden A businessman dubbed godfather of Swedish was recov- Stenberg ering Wednesday a day after receiving an artificial heart in the first such surgery outside the United States While doctors refused to identify the patient officials Wednesday confirmed that he was Leif Stenberg 52 a Swedish real estate businessman who is charged with evading about $44000 in taxes over the past several years One prosecutor said he no longer expected to see the defendant in court while the Swedish press speculated that an artificial heart recipient might be considered legally dead under Swedish law and thus be immune from prosecution patient is doing remarkably said Dr Please turn to HEART 13 A By JEFF LEEN Herald Staff Writer The drug 1000 times more powerful than heroin is designed in a clandestine lab by a renegade chemist a brilliant phantom who has earned the grudging respect of law enforcement pharmacologists It is cut innumerable times and passed off as Persian White the caviar of heroin It is sold in the redwood suburbs north of San Francisco to chic young professionals junkies in hot tubs It killed 49 people last year Sooner or later be coming to Florida It is cheap addictive and perfectly legal By tinkering with the molecular structure of fentanyl a synthetic painkiller routinely used in surgery the unknown chemist has created the latest fad to come out of California heroin talking about a world-class medicinal said Dr Gary Henderson a pharmacologist at the University of California at Davis who coined the term for the synthetic substances that began cropping up on the West Please turn to DRUGS J21 A Please turn to SUMMIT 1 20 A INDEX Yet unmasks circus unicorn hoax War against medfly in high gear again Living Today Section Sports News Section Local News Section FoodDining Section NEW YORK (AP) The only thing still legendary about the unicorns at the Ringling Bros and Barnum Bailey Circus is their fame It was officially determined Wednesday that the one-horned animals are goats Dr Gerald Toms the US Agriculture chief veterinarian in Albany said the at Madison Square Garden is a goat and was medically altered as a kid to give it a single horn The same goes for three understudies said Toms who sent federal inspectors to examine the animals Tuesday He said it was probable that the goats suffered no pain or cruelty and that they are being well treated by the circus said Toms if you want to surrender to whimsy then unicorns Personally I mind calling them Since the circus opened last week the American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and animal lovers have denounced the unicorn promotion as a hoax tine on shipments of fruit in an area from the Broward County line south to Northwest 54th Street and from the Atlantic Ocean west to Red Road Helicopter spraying of Malathion-treated bait likely will begin Monday over a pair of nine-square mile sectors of the county where three medflies have been discovered since Feb 25 It will last a minimum of four weeks House to house spraying of trees and shrubbery Deployment of an additional 500 traps in the affected area bringing the total to 2141 The two males were discovered recently in a trap in a calamondin tree at 1555 NW 127th Street Perry said Confirmation that they were medflies Please turn to MEDFLY 17A By GEOFFREY TOMB Herald Staff Writer The entire northeast corner of Dade County was declared a war zone Wednesday after the confirmed discovery in North Miami of a pair of male Mediterranean fruit flies The declaration calls for immediate aerial and land spraying and a quarantine on fruit shipments from the affected area in an effort to prevent a spread of the medfly which could ruin the citrus crop believe a population is getting started out there They are prolific said Linda Perry of the state Department of Division of Plant Industry in Gainesville The department announced these immediate measures: A 110-square mile 90-day quaran Contents Copyright 945 The Miami Herald CHUCKLE I wish the government would stop talking about improving the quality of life I afford it as it is United Press International Heather Hunter shows off her co-star.