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TV-RADI04B ANN LANDERS2B BOB SWIFT2B LIVELY ARTS5B Thursday July 23 1987 The Miami Herald Section Ena Naunton Health Watc Julio Rumbaut took a big chance when he cast his lot with Channel 51 an beast begins Rumbaut fights the proverbial tug of war testing his stamina and strength and skill For the 35-year-old president of Spanish-language WSCV-Channel 51 there is little difference between the exploits at sea and the everyday work at the office In both settings decisions must be made quickly intelligently Expertise is half the battle but perseverance and determination tip the scales Since it went on the air a little more than two years ago the new Channel 51 has done what By ANA VECIANA-SUAREZ Herald Staff Water To relax to set his mind at ease and his body at rest Julio Rumbaut likes to sail his 25-foot Aquasport far out into the ocean for a weekend of deep-sea fishing But of repose he gets little This is not a sport that allows lolling in the sun or a beer or two as waves lap the starboard No because when the fish bite tarpon grouper or dolphin and the battle of wills between man and many thought it It has battled the well-entrenched WLTV-Channel 23 for a piece of the Hispanic television pie by positioning itself as the more-homey alternative the local Cuban station It started with 20 employees and debts totaling more than $17 million Now it has more than 100 employees and is turning a profit Rumbaut says "It's the World Series of Spanish he says swinging an imaginary bat to bring home his point the first inning of the first Rumbaut who has a TV handsome looks and an flair for words feels certain he has gotten in on the ground floor of a promising broadcast trend Channel 51 is Please turn to RUMBAUT 3B Handicaps and kids: Cry hard try harder Whether they realize it or not some parents add to burden It's all right to cry all right to feel angry and guilty and depressed even all right to just want time for yourself So says Dr Charlotte Thompson to parents who have just learned their child is handicapped But she adds in her book Raising a Handicapped Child (Morrow $1795 and Ballantine $795 paperback in November) not all right to let guilt dismay or even love obstruct the opportunities to get everything possible out of life Thompson says 255500 children are born with some type of defect every year in the United States About 12 percent of all children in school are handicapped And there is a growing movement to help the parents of those children cope with their enormous problems putting parents back into the seat where they should says Paula Lalinde the Miami mother of a 3-year-old girl with spina bifida times the initial crisis takes the wind out of us If we receive sympathy pity and pats on the shoulder instead of information and direction it can really mushroom into a situation where there is no good bonding between the family and the child We meet people with children 5 6 and 7 years old who had no idea what was available from day Lalinde is a member of Parent to Parent an organization that trains parents of handicapped children to help each other cope Now in its second year in Florida the organization has 28 chapters and 13 steering committees ready to start others It is supported by a five-year grant from the Florida Developmental Disabilities Planning Council However it has no funds to offer direct financial assistance to parents says Susan Duwa a Panama City social worker who patterned Parent to Parent on a similar organization in Georgia Some chapters she says have organized cooperatives to negotiate fees with speech and occupational therapists Others explore public and private services for handicapped children are starting to be recognized for the expertise they bring to any kind of therapy or program their children are involved Duwa says With help from Parent to Parent become more of a partner in the Books help too although most are too technical Thompson says She has spent 30 years as a pediatrician 10 of them specializing in Please turn to HEALTH I 'M DAVID WALTERS I Miami Herald Stall Julio Rumbaut calls his uphill battle with Channel 23 World Series of Spanish television Michael back with a little-bitty ballad necord Review himself They harmonize on the slowly rolling chorus their repetitions of the sturdy nagging tag phrase just stop loving ya guess?) answered by a synthesized string line Though his face has gotten younger-looking voice has gotten older He avoids the high register almost entirely On the second verse where the two voices alternate lines the ad-lib energy comes primarily from Garrett The same is true on the fade-out but here wordless vocals form a chorus of decoration over Quincy Jones' lush instrumental landscape It sounds like business as usual for Jack-son and Jones who thankfully enough let the music stand without Captain Eo-esque special effects a good sign only a song His new first single is clever sweet and middle-of-the-road By TOM MOON Herald PopJazz Cntic Following waves of anticipation in South Florida and around the nation music lovers and People magazine devotees awoke Wednesday to hear the return of Michael Jackson They encountered not a symphony not an epiphany not even a surprise Just a harmless little-bitty love ballad I Just Can't Stop Loving You is that rarity in the pop void: Cleverly executed musi- cal sweetness It may not be enough to quiet the number-crunchers those who care only if the sales of upcoming album to be released Aug 31 will surpass the success of Thriller the best-selling album of all time It may not counter the so weird chorus It probably But it is good fastball-down-the-middle-of-the-road pop music Over a sparse and sparkling backdrop Jackson sings the first verse (lyric meter: silly love goop) in a hushed whisper His partner Siedah Garrett gets the full rhythm section for her verse (lyrics: numb) and manages to sound astonishingly like MJ Nicaraguan women aim for beauty in revolution being pretty Look at one of our factory workers her face buried in heavy machinery She looks up and her styled and wearing eye shadow" Medrano is the administrator of Nueva lma-gen the one attempt to get in on the beauty-parlor rage Run by the Sandmista Association Luis Amanda Espinosa it looks like any other Managua beauty parlor with a hot plate to heat up the cold water running from the tap a few wicker chairs and the inevitable posters donated by beauty product companies Nueva Imagen has a North American connection: Linda John a haircutter from California helped set up the beauty parlor in a Managua garage as a hairculters' cooperative A California-based group Woman to Woman now regularly sends money there The beauty parlor which also serves as one of Managua's many beauty academies hopes to offer more reasonable prices to workers and mothers of heroes and martyrs according to Medrano However at present most of rcase turn to BEAUTY 3U By JUNE CAROLYN ERLICK SpcctQl to The Hcruld MANAGUA Nicaragua Nora Astorga the Nicaraguan ambassador to the United Nations goes to a beauty parlor on a quiet residential street Mercedes Flores a secretary goes to in the crowded Roberto Huembese Market where if you're lucky you can also buy eggs and meat Capt Rosa Pasos a spokeswoman for the Sandmista Army recently got her golden ringlets done in Mexico but readily recommended two local beauty parlors where 1 could get my hair cut (Her suggestions proved excellent I asked her after a press conference that included body counts and war statistics and the question was not considered out of place Beauty is something that matters to all Nicaraguan women and the tighter the economic situation the more women seem to scurry for a facial a manicure or a hair-set for Saturday night out good is not says beautician Yolanda Medrano being feminine Mercedes Flores gets a Managua manicure.