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2B THE MIAMI HERALD MONDAY MAY 14 1990 DADE POLITICS Birthday party celebrates Israel Kennedy might lose another job but developer hedges on decision ISRAEL FROM IB he said Day there are plenty of reasons not to be here But CAMERA the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America media have turned public opinion she said see young soldiers pointing guns at Palestinians but they tell you the whole Miami Beach Mayor Alex Daoud gave a short but rousing speech from a stage set up on Abel Holtz Boulevard The speech followed readings of honorary proclamations and resolutions from Metro Mayor Steve Clark Miami Mayor Xavier Suarez and state Rep Elaine Bloom D-Miami Beach The festival is held annually at the Mitchell Wolfson Campus of Miami-Dade Community College This year upward of 6000 people turned out to hear Gary Lewis and the Playboys nibble kosher hot dogs and potato knish witness a mother-and-daughter fashion show and take a stab at breaking the record for the largest hora a celebratory circle dance Jacob Solomon assistant executive vice president of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation said interest in Israel among South 600000 Jews has been heightened by an ongoing exodus of Jews from the Soviet Union The Federation sponsors of festival has raised $9 million in aid for the immigrants and hopes to double that figure by end When she was a Miami commissioner Rosario Kennedy held down a 10-hour-a-week $50000-a-year job with fast-track developer Manny Medina But city voters turned her out last year and now so might Medina The talk around political circles is that days are numbered at Terremark Coconut Grove-based firm Manny Diaz executive vice president first said Kennedy would be leaving immediately" but then hedged: a last Diaz said after putting a reporter on hold just talking about it whether going to work elsewhere what going to do with the rest of her Kennedy Kennedy said Sunday the decision to stay or leave is hers: and I have had some very good years at Terremark but been exploring other opportunities been approached by other Diaz say what prompted the discussions over future an internal matter not going to discuss he said are all those TV stations where are all those reporters so we can tell them we support Daoud asked Calling Israel greatest country the greatest ally the United States has Daoud said his Roman Catholic faith keep him from admiring Israel long as Israel exists there will never be another he said to resounding applause my heart in my soul in my spirit a Mission 1000 an expedition of 800 Floridians traveled to Israel last month to help with the resettlement of more than 10000 Soviet Jews As many as 100000 are expected by the New Year CARL GOLDFARB UM coach resists sharing billing TIM CHAPMAN Miami Herald Staff BADGE OF COURAGE: Adele Roser shows the lD number 48802 tattooed on her arm at a concentration camp in Auschwitz The biggest crowd gathered around Magda doll collection Watts a native of Hungary whose talent for doll making developed in Nazi death camps sat beside a table crammed with tiny felafel makers diamond sellers organ grinders orthodox Jewish clergy and fiddlers on the roof Nearby Adele Roser 66 stood alone taking in the scene When asked what had brought her to festival she pointed to her forearm tattooed in 1944 with the number 48802 here to celebrate she said shrugging her shoulders lost my whole family to the Nazis at Auschwitz Israel is all I are people here representing every political viewpoint but all here because of an innate love for the land a love that transcends any political Solomon said Betsy Gold 82 took a break from dancing to the strains of an Israeli folk ditty to echo message: an awful lot of trouble in the she said is a gathering for all mankind" The celebration of birthday was as much as anything a chance for political discourse on the fate of Israel we are having this wonderful peaceful celebration here this morning in Haifa over 200 graves were said Evelyn Rubin executive director of the South Florida chapter of TALLAHASSEE The coach of the national football champion Hurricanes was invited to Seminole territory for University of Miami Day last week He almost didn't go According to Dade state Sen Larry Plummer some Tallahassee lawmakers figured that if the Legislature was going to honor the Hurricanes it also should honor the home team Florida State University The Hurricanes ended up ranked No 1 in 1990 despite being beaten by FSU a fact that has stuck in the craw of Seminole fans Hurricanes Coach Dennis Erickson said he going to come up beat us but not No 1" Erickson told some lawmakers according to Plummer wanted to be sure they were coming up for University of Miami Day" said Rep Ron Silver D-North Miami Beach who made arrangements for the visit reaction: You come I introduce the resolution honoring the Hurricanes Plummer said he mediated a solution Erickson came and spoke before the House of Representatives He quipped about enjoying this visit more than his trip to allahassee last fall Secretive squad fights narco-terrorism SQUAD FROM IB DAN HOLLY De Yurre builds team on sports authority chance of escape one thing that shocked me the most personally and been involved in what doing for 21 years is to see a crazed sacrificial killer who boarded that plane to get that last presidential Defenbaugh said only place you normally see that is in the Middle East That as far as concerned is a shocking statement being made" Paul Bledsoe a spokesman for US Rep Larry Smith D-Fla chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Task Force on International Narcotics Control said the key to dealing with possible cartel violence here is preparation fact that the great preponderance of the violence has been in Latin America in no way precludes violence here We expect terrorists in the United States from the Colombian cartels but we want to do everything to prevent its head of the Miami Police Special Investigations Section which has assigned one detective to the narco-terrorism squad As early as 1984 when the Colombia-US extradition treaty went into effect cartel leaders threatened to kill five Americans for every Colombian sent here But it has never happened Most narcotics experts agree because the cartel bosses realize that an assault on a US target would only succeed in drawing military retaliation from the United States Harrison said the cartel would also fear interrupting their distribution of cocaine in the United States the major market not going to do anything to disrupt that" That could change Harrison and other narcotics experts agreed if the cartels become desperate enough reasonable expectation would be that if we ever hit them hard enough then they would hit here But never really hit them hard said one narcotics expert a congressional staffer who asked not to be named A senior State Department offi cial who also insisted on anonymity said American backing of war against the cartel could make the US a target: are looking at what may be the trip wire and we seem to have crossed a number of them with extradition and the renewal of the extradition We have seen them escalate the war against the Colombian government and if you see us at the top of that then moving closer and closer to crossing that bridge" Although those same narcotics experts say the task mission seems premature no one would want to be without it if ever needed intelligence always looking at intentions and the State Department official said it comes to intentions sometimes taking a guess but when talking capabilities the narcos are That expert and the Defenbaugh say there already are signs of a new level of desperation within the cartels and point to the assassination of Colombian presidential candidate Carlos Pizarro aboard a jetliner on a Bogota Tunway three weeks ago The killer had virtually no Commissioner Victor Do Yurre appears poised to make a clean sweep at the Miami Sports and Exhibition Authority In February De Yurre persuaded his colleagues to name him authority chairman Now the authority selection committee has recommended tapping De city hall aide William Perry III as the new executive director The recommendation by the five-member selection committee goes to the full authority May 22 and then to the City Commission Lourdes Reyes the comptroller and acting executive director was ranked second by the selection committee Arthur Brooke who works in the General Services Department came in third think the voting came out exactly the way it should have come out" said Kenneth Albano chairman of the selection committee De Yurre did not serve on the selection committee He was in Europe last week and could not be reached for comment but he said previously he hoped Perry would neither benefit De Yurre ANNOUNCEMENT The School Board ot Dade County Florida announces a regular public meeting Including hearings in accordance with the Rules of the Board to which ail persons are invited: May 23 1990 1 pm 1 School Board Auditorium 1450 NE Second Avenue Miami Florida 33132 PURPOSE: To consider approval of minutes bid opening lists items by Offices ot the nor suffer in his candidacy from being the aide CARL GOLDFARB Managua joins far-flung family i School Board Members the Superintendent Deputy Superintendents Manage i Top of Line PWP 3000 Word Processor Free SR 200 I I LOWEST PRICES $99 Value SAVE'50 11 SMITH CORONA? Sale $1 3500 XD4600 MEMORY 16 CHAR SPELL-RIGHT 50000 WORD DICT See Store For Details DISPLAY TYPEWRITER 7K EDITABLE MEMORY Limited Quantities ment Audits and School Board Attorney Bureaus of Professionalization District and Community Services Financial Affairs Bust ness Management Legislative and Labor Relations and Policy Development Management and Accountability and other pertinent matters A copy of the agenda will be available May 16 1990 Citizen Information Center Room 158 1450 NE Second Avenue For further information telephone 995-1128 A citizen wishing to speak to an agenda item should submit a written request to Superintendent ot Schools Room 403 1450 NE Second Avenue by 4:30 pm May 21 1 990 A person wishing to appeal any decision made by The School Board of Dade County Florida with respect to any matter considered at this meeting (hearing) should ensure the preparation of a verbatim record of the proceedings including the testimony and evidence upon which the appeal is to be based Paul Ball Superintendent of Schools 48034 5-14-90 A-1 ABLE BUSINESS MACHINES CASH CARRY 1206 NE 163rd St Miami Beach 944-1111 wcoui Though wary of stirring jealousy among its sizable clan of sibling cities the Miami Beach Commission last week unanimously adopted Managua Nicaragua into its growing family Managua was nominated for sisterhood by Commissioner Abe Resnick who attended the inauguration of President Violets Chamorro In recent weeks Resnick has been circulating snapshots of himself with the new Nicaraguan president Commissioner Bruce Singer at first urged caution He advised his colleagues that Fujisawa Japan the first sister city is already a bit miffed been here and we been over to see Singer said pretty He reminded his colleagues the family already includes a sister city in Ramat-Gan Israel As it turns out the family tree has more branches still and some are just a bit tangled After checking her records City Clerk Elaine Baker dug up two more sister cities Taipei Taiwan and Santa Marta Colombia Baker also tripped across another Israeli sibling the city of Her-Herzila was first proposed as a sister city in 1986 but Baker because they wanted to avoid appearing to be a test for the cartels want Pablo Escobar to see this as a challenge" said FBI Special Agent Danny A Defen-baugh the task force coordinator referring to Medellin cartel leader Pablo Escobar Gaviria is not a Since word of its work leaked out to the press in December the task force felt there was little to lose going public with the missile case Still by the very nature of intelligence work the group cloaks much of its operation in secrecy Defen-baugh declined to reveal the exact number of people working in the task force or even to reveal the names of people arrested due to its work for fear of compromising ongoing investigations Colombia has been ravaged by the violence of Escobar and the other cartel bosses for more than a decade In Colombia cocaine gangs have killed a justice minister a Supreme Court judge more than 50 judges and court investigators and scores of local politicians and police officials The ruthless drug-funded viciousness became known as and was generally aimed with deadly accuracy at anyone who tried to impose the law on the cartels But with the Aug 18 killing of presidential candidate Galan narco-terrorism surged instantly to the level of full-fledged war The Colombian government launched a massive crackdown on the cartels the cartel chiefs responded with a wave of bombings burnings and machine-gun murders A month and a day later the Narco-Terrorism Task Force was born pretty well dictated to us that it would only be a matter of time before the cartel turned its vendetta toward us" Defenbaugh said The group brought together state federal and local agencies Its mission is to gather and disseminate intelligence on cartel violence -and if possible prevent it In February the task force alerted FBI agents in North Carolina that five men planned an assault on the Charleston county jail to free cartel figures held there When the men were arrested they had paramilitary uniforms a stun gun knives two-way radios and smoke grenades the FBI said have and are working a number of cases where we are finding that the cartels are attempting to break out some of the Extraditables not only here in the US but in Canada" said Defenbaugh The Extraditables is the name that cartel leaders who are wanted in the United States use to describe themselves Defenbaugh refused to say who the cartel might want to break out But two high-ranking drug bosses are in federal prison: Medellin cartel trafficker Carlos Lehder Rivas and the man believed to be the Cali US over-boss Luis Santacruz Echeverri Lehder the highest-ranking Medellin cartel member ever extradited to the United States for trial is serving a life sentence plus 145 years at the federal penitentiary in Marion 111 Santacruz who abruptly pleaded guilty to drug charges May 4 in the middle of trial is being held at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in South Dade awaiting sentencing There also have been rumors that the cartel would strike at US targets Before he was killed by a 9mm bullet during a raid by Colombian police in December cartel boss Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha threatened to here and make a statement against the United said Maj Kenny Harrison Two Full Featured Cellular Phones Buy a full featured hands-free mobile phone get a UNIDENTransportable phone FREE mmtaiiotii Electro Gun TERMITE CONTROL NON CHEMICAL SERVICE GUARANTEED said she somehow was proclaimed a brother city in a 1988 resolution Stuart Rogel who as the economic development chief oversees its family ties said the shift from sister to brother bother him long as not incestuous Rogel said Rogel said Miami Beach can have as large a family as it wants but no more than one from a country BONNIE WESTON Motorola Portable Also available: Motorola Portable and receive a FREE i Transportable MICHEUN SERVICE 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