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FIRST EDITION FAIR AND WARM HIGHS NEAR 80 LOWS IN UPPER 60s DETAILS 33A 75 CENTS 292 PAGES SUNDAY JANUARY 1 1989 Contents Copyright -1988 The Miami Herald Six SFlorida stations make Historic switch 3 million TV viewers affected plot twists outdid Dallas Need a guide to make the new network lineup easy to understand? Here's all need to find your favorite shows TV BOOK Want to know where to find the playoffs and bowl games? Sports ID Looking for better reception? The solutions may be costly 24A West to Vero Beach There has never been a simultaneous change among this many local stations in the history of American television The upheaval was set in motion by purchase of Miami-based WTVJ-Channel 4 two years ago Then came unexpected purchase of WCIX-Channel 6 Turn to SWITCH 25A By STEVE SONSKY Herald Television Writer Good morning 9 am Do you know where your networks are? Today is the day video chaos reigns in South Florida This morning a sweeping series of network realignments scrambles your TV dial rearranging programming on six stations in two TV markets and temporarily disorienting more than three million viewers from Key And: Clout moxie boardroom intrigue and gambles won and lost If there was a point of no return in the events that are so changing viewing habits in South Florida it occurred on Jan 16 1987 On that day chief executive officer Robert Wright picked up the phone in his sixth floor office overlooking the 75-foot-tall 22000-light Christmas tree at 30 Rock as Turn to TELEVISION 24 A By STEVE SONSKY Herald Television Writer The Big Switch is the messiest most contentious most complicated network swap in broadcast history How and why did it happen? really behind it? The answer: Coincidence misunderstandings personalities changing market forces changing federal regulations and changing owners in the world of TV THE BIG SWITCH Oldest paper in city folds amid sadness Charles Whited on The death IB John Keasler column reprinted 6C By PATRICK MAY Herald Staff Writer The Miami News died Saturday Its death an on-again-off-again hanging-in-the-wind affair came at last with a calm and sorrowful grace under deadline stirred only by those same production pressures that had marked its first 92 years Victim of unfavorable demographics and board-room deals the oldest newspaper founded in 1896 as a 10-page weekly began its final press run of 70000 just after dawn The swan song a 40-page nostalgia-ridden farewell to readers came 2Vz months after its owners Cox Enterprises announced they would close the paper unless they found a buyer They never did although a local lawsuit and a drawn-out tango between Cox and an investor group interested in the paper wreaked havoc on the News staff of 108: Even in the 11th hour on Friday afternoon reporters and editors still had no idea whether edition would be their last Many of their lives like their paper had been put on hold But by sundown Friday it was clear: There would be no sale And a federal judge had turned down a last-minute request by a local community newspaper chain to keep The News open Through the confusion of circumstance stories still got edited headlines still got written But when news of the court hearing came and publisher David Kraslow told his staff that paper would be the last the confusion cleared And in its place in the newsroom in the vanishing shell of this once rough-and-ready chronicle of South Florida there was only sadness And the sadness came in snippets: Friday 2:15 pm: a lull between early deadlines And day news editor Mel Frishman 47 BILLFRAKES Miami Herald Staff Turn to NEWS 32 A AG Montanari a Miami News photographer for eight years scans last edition Florida tot undergoes multi-transplant surgery India Pakistan OK nuclear pact I Old enemies agree not to attack each sites Rochester NY and Philadelphia The operation began at 7:30 am EST Saturday and was expected to last about 12 hours Officials from the United Network for Organ Sharing would not identify the organ donors or their families the donor was put into the computer and they ran a match Calvin was said Kelle Straw a spokeswoman for the national organ network which main- Turnto SURGERY 10 A By FAWN Herald Staff Writer MADISON Wis Calvin Oliveira the 14-month-old boy who lingered near death for months while his parents pleaded for help in getting organ transplants went into surgery early Saturday to get a new liver and small intestine The Deerfield Beach toddler was flown by air ambulance from Fort Lauderdale on Friday night to the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics at Madison after two potential organ donors were found in Pakistan since his grandfather Ja-waharlal Nehru met President Ayub Khan in 1960 Relations between the two nations have been volatile since partition in 1947 They have fought three wars since then and maintain tens of thousands of soldiers along their border Both India and Pakistan are deeply suspicious of the claim that its nuclear program is purely peaceful The United States the major supplier of arms to Pakistan has said The prospect of a rapprochement between the two traditionally rival nations had dominated the fourth annual summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) which ended earlier Saturday Dominating the summit however was the meeting between Benazir Bhutto and Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi One Indian official said the two got along Gandhi is the first Indian leader to meet a Pakistani prime minister in From Herald Wire Services ISLAMABAD Pakistan India and Pakistan signed an agreement Saturday not to attack each nuclear sites state-run Pakistani television said Prime ministers Rajiv Gandhi and Benazir Bhutto witnessed the signing of the accord in Islamabad by their foreign ministers the television said The report said that the two sides also signed agreements for cultural cooperation and avoidance of double taxation between the two countries that the country is on the threshold of making a nuclear bomb India exploded a nuclear device in 1974 Fears have been expressed in Pakistan that India might attack a secret nuclear plant near Islamabad Pakistan has said that such an attack would set off a war HEW YEAR OLD LIFE WHY MIDNIGHT VOWS MAKE YOU OVER LIVING TODAY 1G A HEWS QUIZ REVIEWTHE EVENTS OF 1988 AND TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE VIEWPOINT 1C.