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TROPIC MAGAZINE FAIR ANC MILD HIGHS NEAR 80 LOWS IN LOW 60s DETAILS 2A Closing 1-95 gap opens door to growth m'I'illiMDlil'MI'U Last bit of road opens Saturday 15 years late And it means Geoff Bryant will keep more than $600 a year he now pays in tolls "It may not be any said the Port St Lucie resident who drops $4 traveling Turnpike to and from his golf school in Fort Lauderdale three or four times a week definitely going to be Other routes connecting the Treasure Coast with South Florida have long existed But the turnpike which runs parallel to 1-95 from Martin County to Miami charges tolls and with infrequent exits is best suited for longer drives US 1 is the opposite: a local road full Facts and figures about Interstate 95 The misting link: 338 miles Construction cost: $1527 million 1-95 in Florida: 3824 miles Completed cost: $1 billion 1-95 Miami to Houlton Maine: 1866 miles Travel time with link at 60-mph average: 31 hours 6 minutes Beginning of construction in Florida: 1955 in Duval County Completed highway opens: Dec 19 1987 ment Commuters will find it easier to live farther north of the urban centers of Miami Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach figure a two-hour commute to Miami really any worse than what some people do to get from one end of Miami to the other or Fort Martin County Commissioner Maggy Hurchalla said Lance deHaven-Smith called it another step in Los Angelization of South in Martin County and driving to West Palm Beach oe said deHaven-Smith associate director of the Florida Atlantic University-Florida International University Joint Center for the Study of Environmental and Urban Problems By JEFF TRUESDELL Herald Staff Writer The Missing Link a 338-mile gap in one of the busiest highways will open next Saturday It took 15 years longer than first promised and $2219 million Only $1527 million of that went for construction the rest went for buying land and planning a contentious process that involved as many as seven routes and a deliberate attempt to keep paying customers on the Turnpike The closing of the gap from PGA Boulevard in North Palm Beach County to Fort Pierce will open up the last enclaves isolated by poor access to explosive develop MISSING LINK 32 YEARS OF WAITING Please turn to 1-95 120 A oil tanker 40 saved from blazing Navy press copiers assist ship attacked by Iranian gunboats MANAMA Bahrain (AP) A US Navy destroyer and a press helicopter Saturday rescued 40 people including a pregnant woman from a Cypriot supertanker that blazed fiercely after an Iranian gunboat attack sources and witnesses said Fire prevented the crew of the 232164-ton Pivot from reaching the engine room and stopping the huge vessel which steamed along burned Man sought in slaying of four kin By ANGEIO FIGUEROA And CHRISTOPHER MARQUIS Herald Stall Writers Metro-Dade police searched Saturday for an alleged crack cocaine user suspected of killing his parents brother-in-law and teen-age nephew in a North Dade neighborhood Michael Hcadberg Jr 17 died early Saturday after being shot Friday evening by his uncle James Herndon 28 police said Herndon also killed his parents in the home he shared with them at 17055 NW 78th Ave in Palm Springs North police said After waiting nearly four hours for a search warrant Friday police entered the house Just before midnight and found Harold Herndon in the one-car garage and his wife Thelma in a greenhouse attached to the back of the house Metro police spokesman Key Valdes said It was unclear when or how the couple was slain Down the street In the tree-lined neighborhood Herndon shot his brother-in-law Michael Headberg and Headbcrg's son Michael Jr at their home around 6 pm Friday police said Saturday morning Jackson Memorial Hospital officials notified Metro homicide detectives that Michael Jr a sophomore at American Senior High School had died of his wounds His father died hours earlier while undergoing Please turn to KILLINGS '1A in the southern Persian Gulf as i The guided missile destroyer USS Chandler used its helicopter to pluck crew members from the tanker while the privately chartered press helicopter landed on deck several times to ferry others to the warship according to Navy officials witnesses and shipping sources It was the first time a US Navy warship on patrol in the gulf had undertaken a significant rescue mission US Navy officials stressed the warship had "rendered humanitarian assistance" It was also the first time that journalists were involved in a rescue mission in the spillovers of the 7-year-old Iraq-Iran war on gulf sealanes The Pivot was sailing toward the Strait of Hormuz with a load of Saudi Arabian crude oil when the Iranians struck at 10:30 am maritime shipping experts said The attack apparently was in retaliation for recent Iraqi strikes on Iranian shuttle tankers Almost three hours after the attack flames were around the vessel and in the waters through which the supertanker sailed as it kept moving said Associated Press photographer Greg English English was aboard a helicopter to film the stricken vessel The 40 people rescued were Greek officers one of whom had his wife aboard and mainly Filipino seamen English said All had huddled in the bow of the vessel which was relatively clear of fire and smoke until their rescue English added He said ongoing radio communications identified one of the 40 as a pregnant woman US Navy officials aboard the command ship LaSalle were quoted by pool reporter John Cushman Jr Pentagon corrcspon- Please turn to GULF 20 A United Press international Reuters A crewman of the Cypriot tanker Pilot set ablaze by Iranian gunboats in the Pershing Gulf Saturday is lifted to safety aboard a US Navy helicopter Christian soldiers may ignite a political revolution in GOP By TOM FIEDLER Herald Political Editor SHREVEPORT La The Rev Billy McCormick calls it the Christian political revolution a movement ignited on the grassy mall in Washington DC There on an April day in 1980 250000 people gathered at the urging of their television ministers at a rally entitled for caught a vision that God wanted us to be a nation united in recalls McCormick a grandfatherly preacher born and raised in a red-dirt farming community near Shreveport wanted Christians involved like never McCormick and scores like him have heeded that call this year as foot soldiers in the army of one of the televangelists who sponsored that 1980 rally Pat Robertson a candidate for the presidential nomination And here in Louisiana in neighboring Texas in other Deep South states and even in secular Florida and Iowa McCormick and his counterparts are well along in their mission turning out thousands of fundamentalist Christians for Robertson at rallies Please turn to CHRISTIANS HA Pat Robertson: His army has a mission ra little refuge from the intimidation and horror US sends back fleeing Haitians stops aid The terror takes many forms stories 22-23A Mews Analysis fear 1C By DON BOHNIN'G And GUY GL'GLIOTTA Herald Stuff Writers The terror takes different forms An anonymous telephone call a veiled warning from "a friend" a corpse behind the cathedral a house burned down by persons unknown a raid by robbers in the middle of the night a quick rat-a-tat of machine-gun bullets splatting against a stucco house at 3 a For the past six weeks Haiti has lived a semisystematic campaign of creeping intimidation punctuated by abrupt moments of undiluted public horror The targets are those who belong to Haiti's so-called By FELICIA LEE Hera Id Staff Writer The United States has stopped sending nonhumanitarian aid to Haiti to protest an election day massacre but it has not stopped sending back Haitians fleeing the beleaguered country Indications are that policy change any time soon Since the Nov 29 when at least 34 Haitians were hacked to death with machetes or shot down some as they tried to vote the United States has sent back 23 Haitians headed for Miami according to Coast Guard records Eight were felons according to immigration officials The Haitians were turned away under the US 6-year-old interdiction agreement with Haiti: The agreement says the Coast Guard will return any Haitians coming here as economic refugees This year more than 3100 men women and children most adrift on overcrowded I dangerous boats have been sent back to the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere More than 11000 refugees have been returned since 1981 Despite reports that armed gunmen roam the streets and chaos reigns Haitians who have reached shores and applied for political asylum will also be shipped to Haiti if they lose their appeals Fewer than 1 percent of Haitian asylum claims are granted The United States maintains that most Haitians are economic not political refugees Outraged Haitian activists are renewing a call for a temporary halt on all deportations and interdictions at sea and a review of US Haitian immigration policy They say the country's politics are too tumultuous and its mood too violent to justify sending Please turn to REFUGEES priests politicians businessmen human rights activists anyone who openly wishes for change in the Western poorest country The terror is having its effect Its victims vary their routines sleep in different places every night eat at foreign embassies and keep appointments at odd hours Some remain in hiding but others have succumbed: Many Haitians Please turn to HAITI 244 Lt Gen Henri Namphy: Opponents fare badly i.