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rr 1 111 ir i "rrrrr US IRAN MAY COOPERATE ON RELIEF Tehran acting through Swiss has requested aid for flood of Iraqi refugees PAGE 13A SCHOOL DISMISSALS PROTESTED Action against two Broward educators stirs furious reaction at board meeting LOCAL 1BR DESIGNER CLOTHES FOR THE THRIFTY For far less money resale shops satisfy even lavish tastes LIVING IE WEATHER Partly cloudy 9074 2A BROWARD FINAL BRO WEDNESDAY APRIL 24 1991 CONTENTS COPYRIGHT 1991 THE MIAMI HERALD 25 CENTS GETAYJAY CAR WAS A LIMO POLICE SAY HOLLYWOOD BANK ROBBED SUSPECT IS ARRESTED Pratt wins $12 billion jet contract PATRICK FARRELL Miami Herald Staff LIMO ON THE LAM: Officers search limo used in bank robbery IF722ILIGHTNINGT2 A By MARK THOMPSON And JIM McNAIR Herald Staff Writers An aircraft industry dogfight worth nearly $100 billion climaxed Tuesday as the Air Force chose a team led by Lockheed Corp to build its 21st Century fighter plane The advanced tactical fighter contract will mean boom times for Lockheed and its partners the Boeing Co and the General Dynamics Corp But the losing team the Northrop Corp and the McDonnell Douglas Corp goes home about $1 billion poorer after investing heavily in designs and test planes over the past five years In Florida the decision meant that the Pratt Whitney division of United Technologies Corp won a $12 billion contract to build engines for the F-22 advanced tactical fighter beating out General Electric Co The Air Force decision announced Tuesday in Washington spared 1500 jobs at military engineering plant near West Palm Beach Anxious employees celebrated under a large tent outside the plant where they had gathered to watch the contract award on television And Harris Corp of Melbourne part of the winning Lockheed team said it will supply as much as $600 million worth of fiber-optic avionics equipment for the F-22 over the What: An agile radar-evading fighter plane When: Should be ready for combat around 2002 Replaces: The F-1 5 the Air primary fighter Cost: $95 billion for 650 planes it Congress backs the program next: Congress must provide financing for the next phase of the program known as engineering and manufacturing development next 20 years The $121 billion development contract ultimately should generate production contracts with a higher total cost than the B-2 bomber program Spawning tens of thousands of jobs around the nation PLEASE SEE FIGHTER 17A PATRICK FARRELL Miami Herald Staff IN CUSTODY: Suspect James Thomas Moore is flanked by Hollywood officers Mike Springsteen left and Dan Dunn Heist linked to serial robberies The incident started about 1 pm when the two men pulled up in the white stretch limo to the Mr Grocer at 3302 Sheridan St Hollywood Schmaus a regular at the Mr Grocer chatted with the men outside the store He watched as the driver climbed back in the limo The other man carrying a black gym bag went around the comer to Great Western Bank When the other man ran out Schmaus By TRISH POWER Herald Staff Writer Postal carrier Charles Schmaus thought it was a bit odd when two guys in suits pulled up in a limousine to do lunch at the Mr Grocer He thought it was more odd still when one of the men strolled around the comer and into a nearby bank carrying a black gym bag When the man came running out of the bank moments later Schmaus thought it was very odd indeed strikes him as odd that one goes and gets into the limo and the other guy goes into the bank" Hollywood police spokesman Ed Cun ningham said he sees the guy running out of the bank he took the tag number a description of the limo and called Hie Minutes later police arrested James Thomas Moore 31 of 20225 NE 34th Ct North Miami and charged him with one count of bank robbery a suspect in as many as 20 other heists FBI spokesman Paul Miller said Schmaus 39 of Hollywood want to talk about the incident Tuesday not one for said his mother Marjorie Schmaus Associated Press PLEASE SEE BANK 17A DIGGING OUT: Red Cross and city workers dig through rubble of the Hotel Internacional in Puerto Limon Costa Rica Tuesday Quake toll climbs to 52 as rescue teams fan out Suspect in bombing of Chilean diplomat captured in Florida 29 were confirmed dead in the remote Atlantic province of Bocas del Toro bringing the official toll to 52 people in the two nations As many as 800 people in the two countries were injured from the quake which registered 74 on the Richter scale The Associated Press reported Numerous communities in the Talamanca Mountain region of southeastern Costa Rica remained cut off after the quake ravaged most of the roads in the area according to PLEASESEE EARTHQUAKE 10A VICTIMS SEEK SUPPLIES 10A By JOHN McPHAUL Special to The Herald PUERTO LIMON Costa Rica Multinational rescue crews on Tuesday fanned across Costa southern Atlantic coast in search of victims of earthquake that rocked southern Costa Rica and western Panama Reports of casualties varied The official count Tuesday night stood at 23 people dead but the Red Cross reported that the quake killed 43 people In Panama officials said at least built it up from nothing to what it is said Cabrera who earlier this year left Green Heart to start his own landscaping busmess Cabrera who met Paz six years ago said Paz was a vocal member of the Cuban American Club in West Palm Beach was outspoken and cally he was against the Communist regime in Cabrera said he was never violent He never discussed bombs or terrorist activities He advocated peaceful solutions This is all a very big arrest came after a viewer of the television show Most Wanted called US Customs Gavin said The show ran a story Friday night about the 15-year AT THE DOCK: detective said he found the supposedly disabled William Lenahan scrambling aboard his yacht $225 million disability was fraud Florida officials allege IBR0WARD1SAMPLER By LORI ROZSA Herald Staff Writer The last man sought in the 1976 bombing assassination of former Chilean diplomat Orlando Leteher and an aide was arrested Tuesday by the FBI as he drove to his Boynton Beach landscaping business Virgilio Pa Romero 39 was the man who pushed the button that detonated the high-powered remote-controlled explosive killing Letelier and Ronni Karpen Moffitt on Sept 21 1976 as they rode in a car on Embassy Row in Washington DC said William Gavin head of the Miami Division "Over the years gotten tips that he was in the Caribbean or South Gavin said he said been in the area since Paz lived a quiet life as Francisco Baez neighbors said He worked long hours to make his business Green Heart Landscaping a success He had nearly a dozen employees and five trucks and vans He and a friend Rolando Cabrera formed the business after working as landscapers PLEASE SEE BOMBING 17A tice case ever filed in a Florida lawyers for the insurer said uesday Phyllis Lenahan was arrested Tuesday but her husband at their Port St Lucie home when sheriffs deputies and state Insurance Department agents went for them Each is charged with one count of organized fraud two counts of insurance fraud and two counts of CHRYSLER PURCHASES REST OF GENERAL Chrysler Corp has bought the remaining 49 percent in Hollywood-based General Rent-A-Car that it didn't own Business 5B TOURISM STEERED TO HOTEL Records show that the county's tourism bureau has steered more convention and corporate business leads to the luxury resort where tourist chief Richard Weaver lives than all but one other hotel in the area Local 1BR SQUEEZE OF BEING POOR For the poor a pair of shoes that fit is a luxury that is also a necessity Local 1BR By SPENCER SHSU Herald Staff Writer Less than a year after winning a $225 million medical malpractice lawsuit by saying he would be incapacitated for life a retired New York City detective allegedly was seen clambering aboard his 47-foot yacht and toting luggage up three flights of stairs at his Key West condominium William Lenahan 63 and his wife Phyllis engaged in most blatant fraud in a medical malprac 08114 ii 77785" 13333' 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