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CLASSIFIED8BR FOR YOUR INFORMATION8BR DEATHS8BR A1 Friday January 24 1986 The Miami Herald Section BR actions judge Suspects were arrested after monitoring officers of a rented car that Caballero and a private detective were driving on Aug 14 and seized private papers belonging to the men according to defense attorney Christopher Grillo The papers some of which were photocopied by the detectives before they were returned included confidential notes protected by the attorney-client privilege Grillo said Gaffney was suspended from the department without pay Wednesday investigators refused to describe the allegations against Gaffney 36 except to say they are not related to the Caballero case Gaffney would not comment on his suspension Gaffney and Barnes did not have a chance to testify Thursday After the hearing Fleet ordered all of the lawyers and witnesses in the case not to discuss it By BRIAN BLANCHARD Herald Staff Writer A Broward circuit judge said Thursday he was to learn how detectives arrested two men who had tried to investigate the work by photographing and videotaping them on the job think the Broward Office is jerking you around and lying to Judge Leonard Fleet told a prosecutor during a court hearing Fleet hinted broadly that he may dismiss a cocaine trafficking case against a California man Reuben Caballero because of the behavior of Detectives Steve Gaffney and William Barnes who have arrested Caballero twice Gaffney and Barnes made an illegal search The hearing over the constitutionality of the search is the latest episode in a feud between some South Florida lawyers and the detectives who try to identify drug couriers among the passengers at the bus and train stations Deputies say the operation in which suspicious-looking passengers are questioned and sometimes searched helps slow the drug trade Some lawyers say it is often used to violate the constitutional rights of suspects and amounts to a permanent border crossing Caballero was investigating police tactics at the bus station in an attempt to raise questions about his own arrest according to court Please turn to SEARCH 3BR WALTER MICHOT Miami Herald Staff Reuben Caballero sits in courtroom during hearing Thursday BUI Braucher 4 in Haiti tied to major coke ring Americans arrested in 850 million raid By LYNNE DUKE Herald Staff Writer Four Americans jailed for seven months in Haiti on drug charges are part of a major drug trafficking cartel that moved cocaine from Colombia through Haiti to the United States the chief US Drug Enforcement Agency official in Puerto Rico said Thursday The four including two Pompano Beach men were arrested at sea by Haitian authorities shortly after leaving Haiti with $50 million worth of cocaine the small island biggest cocaine bust ever DEA special agent John Sutton said They were indicted by a federal grand jury in Maryland in August on three drug-related charges each resulting from the Haitian seizure is what they would call in Spanish Sutton said is the big The four were major players in the international drug ring which transported cocaine from Colombia to distribution points in Fort Lauderdale and Baltimore with a drop-off point in Haiti Sutton said William Bateman 33 and Joseph Alaimo 22 say they are innocent and insist they are being tortured at the Penitencier National in Port-au-Prince Linda June Mclnville 26 and Christine Cieri 25 both of Charlotte NC also are imprisoned Four Colombians and three Haitians were arrested by Haitian police during the June bust as well but were later released Trials for the four Americans in Haitian courts have not yet been scheduled Haitian police have told US officials that the four are being held on Please turn to DRUGS 4BR Battle broadens over annexation What became i of spoils from Correspondents comment on tourism materialism smokers the symphony tax and New Yorkers Dear Bill: A parting shot at something you alluded to namely the influx of tourists and economic benefits to be derived therefrom not only from bowl games but for such spectacles as Miss Universe competitions Gran Prix auto races winterfests county fairs etc Mayors commissioners and tourist-development types tell us all about the these events produce Sometimes I wonder if that theory as suspect as President trickle-down economic theory If all these events are such a boon to the community how come always reading about the lack of funds for municipal services? There always seems to be a shortage of money for maintenance of public swimming pools recreation programs parks social services etc Ben Pearlman Hollywood Dear Ben: We have everything Look at our wonderful roads Dear Bill: Do we dream too much of materialism as you put it? Sometimes we dream about materialism because we have enough monetary material The greatest dreams the greatest hopes tend to reflect that which we lack Money always buy happiness and affluence synonymous with contentment But if money buy happiness neither does poverty Being broke bring you a good sleep So it all depends on how one looks at it Ira Sandler Lauderhill Dear Ira What do the rich dream about? Dear Bill Braucher: How could anyone smoke five packs (100 cigarettes) a day (24 hours) as one of your readers contended? smoking at the rate of 414 cigarettes per hour less eight hours sleep and a minute to light each cigarette amounting to six cigarettes per hour plus time necessary to open a pack find an ashtray eat and drink ride elevators talk business and argue with wife I am 74 have never smoked but have always worked in bars and restaurants A doctor would not believe I did not smoke because my lungs were as bad as a I still work but outside in fresh air! Kenneth Sunderland Hollywood Dear Kenneth Sunderland: Five-pack smokers have no time to argue with their wives Dear Bill: I propose that a quarter-cent increase in Broward property taxes be voted and proceeds given to me Think how much I would enjoy that and as you say in your column supporting symphony taxes would barely feel the Ridiculous? Of course! Our country got into mess by following the logic that we can have everything paid for out of the tax till because each little special-interest item costs so little Surely you know what Everett Dirksen had to say about that Bert Smith Hollywood Dear Bert: leave me hanging What did he say? Dear Sir: Your reference from time to time to allegedly ill-mannered New Yorkers is offensive and in the same class as you claim them to be I was born and bred in New York and have never used my car horn needlessly Generalizations are always a sign of prejudice Ruth Forman Margate Dear Madam: generalizing now? By ANDREW FROMAN Herald Staff Writer Fancy appetizers replaced bitter words but Broward legislators and Fort Lauderdale city commissioners still disagreed Thursday over a plan for the city to annex a huge predominantly poor Central Broward neighborhood Legislators want Fort Lauderdale to annex the 2625-acre unincorporated area west of the city City commissioners want it They also disputed each estimates of how much the annexation would cost and whether it should be done this year seems to me the battle lines are just getting Fort Lauderdale Mayor Robert Dressier said think the city of Fort Lauderdale will ever agree to said state Sen Tom McPherson D-Fort Lauderdale after the two-hour Please turn to ANNEX 4BR CHARLES TRAINOR JR Miami Herald Staff High horse while kicking out with his hind legs About 200 people attended a 90-minute performance by Lippizzaner stallions at Broward Community Omni Theater in Coconut Creek A goosed moose? No a Cayuse Handlers Clay Thomas Reed and James Bell show techniques in training a Royal Lippizzaner stallion to perform the intricate cabriole in which the horse leaps high into the air drawing his forelegs under him City pitches for convention center near Strip Katz has maintained that the best place for a center is a 25-acre parcel south of the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport a site ranked first in a Touche Ross and Co study commissioned by the tourism council Katz recently got approval from Dania city officials to build a 349-room hotel adjacent to that site Katz also said Sunrise and Miramar have presented impressive plans for building centers in their cities revitalization strategy and change the image of the Strip" he said Katz argued that a 100000-square-foot center would be too small with no room for expansion study completely ignores the trend toward building large 300000-square-foot Katz said build a small meeting center to compete with existing meeting centers at Katz said the study also did not address traffic problems in the area By LINDA ROBERTSON Herald Staff Writer The city of Fort Lauderdale wants to make a convention center the focus of an ambitious beachfront revitalization plan but its sales pitch convince Tourist Development Council members Thursday no question the Fort Lauderdale site is the most desirable location in Broward for any real estate said David Katz chairman of the convention center task force make it feasible" Richard Galehouse of Sasaki Associates the architecture and engineering firm hired by the city to study redevelopment said the center could be built on a city parking lot east of the Intracoastal Waterway at Las Olas Boulevard a block behind the hotels bars and bikini shops of the Strip is the heart of the beach area a very troubled heart now but the center could be a major instrument of a Paul A Barlow bus passenger who starred in ad dies at 101 Crowded school copes creatively By MARK POTOK Herald Staff Writer It was 2 pm sharp at crowded Maplewood Elementary School in Coral Springs and one of Broward most elaborate dismissals was beginning In teacher Judy third-grade portable classroom the public address system crackled bus No 1 No the voice said I have private bus No 1 and 2 students Douglas asked as a getting-out-of-school tremor of excitement rustled through the class A few pupils stood lined up at the door and headed for freedom "If you are not dismissed then you are Douglas admonished a few early By LINDA ROBERTSON Herald Staff Writer Paul A Barlow a regular bus passenger who starred in a TV commercial promoting mass transit in Broward died Wednesday of complications from an injury he received in a fall The Fort Lauderdale resident was 101 was so vital and so quick-witted we figured he was said Tim Brannan marketing manager for the Broward County mass transit division lost a missionary he told everyone the bus was the way to Barlow was discovered in August by transit employee Warren Bullis who met him on a bus and cast him in the 30-second ad In return for his appearance Barlow received a year of free unlimited ridership and the first Transit Outstanding Passenger Award Barlow who driven a car since he moved to Fort Lauderdale 20 years ago made regular bus trips to his bank the grocery store and the shoe repair shop He wore a special right shoe to accommodate a World War I injury he suffered in France Before the war Barlow a St Louis native earned degrees in civil mechanical and electrical engineering Later he worked as a copper miner in Mexico an apprentice and an engineer The white-goateed cigar-smoking Bar-low also served as a delegate to the Silver-Haired Legislature from 1978 to 1980 ELSEWHERE Remains of ESM auctioned off Seventy-five Fort Lauderdale lawyers accountants liquidators and securities traders spent their lunch hour at an auction Thursday haggling over the remains of ESM Securities 16D Paul A Barlow: Rode bus regularly Please turn to PORTABLES 2BR.