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irJJJay'syrtly -yp I yT i--ly--y--- ''-yfi TijJn i Hf SECTION THURSDAY AUGUST 30 19S0 DEATHS 4B £lc illiami Herald from lawyers drops esr rrrr Judge John Gale accused of improperly using expensive cars and a luxurious rent-free condominium is awaiting an ethics trial by the state Judicial Qualifications Commission CHARLES WHITED lots As in past years Mackenzie received the worst ratings 8485 percent of 2369 lawyers found her unqualified Mackenzie is fighting for re-election despite a troubled six-year tenure punctuated by bad press controversial rulings and occasional complaints about her drinking habits opponent Robbie Barr was rated qualified or exceptionally qualified by 8554 percent of the 1 030 lawyers who voted on her abilities In other controversial races challenger Rudy Sorondo fared better than his opponent Judge Jones who was voted her usual position as second worst judge on the circuit bench Lawyer Eleanor Schockett bested her opponent Gregg Schwartz who voiced the conviction of many candidates who scored lower than they had hoped As far as voters are concerned Schwartz insisted the Bar poll is one factor in the By CHRISTINE EVANS Herald Staff Writer Circuit Judge John Gale dogged by accusations that he violated ethical canons plummeted 30 points in the Dade Bar Poll released Wednesday Slightly more than 55 percent of the 2403 lawyers who voted on abilities declared him unqualified He was rated qualified by 3208 percent and exceptionally qualified by 1290 percent The numbers contrast sharply to 1989 ranking when he was deemed unqualified by 2493 percent qualified by 5879 percent and exceptionally qualified by 1628 percent Only two circuit court judges Mary Ann Mackenzie and Rosemary Usher Jones fared worse in this anonymous canvassing of Dade lawyers And few except Gale strayed more than a few percentage points from their previous standings Gale could not be reached for comment early Wednesday afternoon His opponent Gene Fierro was rated qualified or excep- Qualifications Commission He is accused of improperly using expensive cars and a luxurious rent-free condominium The watchdog commission also has questioned participation in fund-raising events Additional charges likely will be filed according to court records Gale has said he is confident he will be exonerated of all alleged violations The poll rated only those judges and candidates who are up for election Sept 4 A total of 2823 law'ers returned valid bal tionally qualified by 7848 percent of the 911 lawyers who commented on his judicial promise think the attorneys who practice in this arena are very well aware of the qualifications of myself and the public perception and qualifications of John Fierro said He said he was confident the sentiment will be and confirmed by the voters of this Gale an 18-year veteran of the bench is awaiting an ethics trial by the state Judicial PAUSE BY THE BAY 5 counties got special projects 14 received none wmm TALLAHASSEE (AP) Lawmakers were less than even-handed when they funded special local projects this year a government-watchdog group said Wednesday Five counties got two-thirds of the projects and 14 got none according to Florida Tax Watch Inc TaxWatch calls the projects The business-backed nonprofit organization has issued a "Turkey annually since 1983 In June TaxWatch reported finding 401 items costing $112 million in the state's $274 billion budget that the organization said should be vetoed The items ranged from sporting events trade fairs and livestock pavilions to abuse shelters facilities for cocaine babies and dropout-prevention programs Taxwatch targeted the items for veto if they were not requested by a state agency or the governor bypassed the normal legislative committee process or if TaxWatch thought they were more appropriately funded with local or private dollars TaxWatch issued an analysis Wednesday of where the projects went and how much Florida counties paid for projects compared to what they got in return Five counties Dade Broward Orange Hillsborough and Escambia got $735 million worth of such projects nearly two-thirds of the total TaxWatch said The five counties represent 379 percent of the population Dade County the most populous county got the most pro- jects 112 more than a quarter of the total number given Those projects cost $476 million or 124 percent of the total Dade County resident- paid 34 cents on the dollar for the a ojects Residents in the 14 counties that get any projects paid $841 each for projects elsewhere Tax-Watch said Those counties are Baker Charlotte Clay DeSoto Flagler Hardee Hendry Herr nando Indian River Jefferson Liberty Manatee Martin and St Lucie Although Gov Bob Martinez vetoed 53 of the items TaxWatch-labled turkeys more than 300 items were left in the $274 billion budget They cost more than $30 million 1 ll Its' TfV- A A A A A-AA 1 So little known about psycho killers Their presence haunts us rising from misty shadows to prey upon the innocent with crimes so macabre as to astound even experts in human behavior From 19th-century Jack the Ripper to modern-day Psycho they are the stuff of horror books and films magnified in real life for being sprung from the depths of human depravity Psychopathic killers Unknown their identity is embellished: the Zodiac Killer the Hillside Strangler Son of Sam Some like Ted Bundy need no embellishment And some are too fresh to name The Gainesville terror out said Charles Reed chancellor of the state university system wired together right" Five victims young attractive vibrant four women and one man all college students Their murders strike South Florida for two were bright Dade County young people and one was a popular Broward student What spawned such horror? I asked University of Miami forensic psychiatrist Sanford Jacobson In 20 years he has interviewed scores of rapists murderers child molesters and testified in many trials But killers of the Gainesville stripe are rare their motives not fully understood With hard data sketchy even experts must grope The psychopathic murderer The killer: "Probably a male but not necessarily said Jacobson "I would suspect that intelligent not psychotic in the clinical sense not schizophrenic or manic depressive or someone with a major Jacobson questions suggestions that he might not have acted alone probably has a variety of psycho-sexual problems particularly with women fear and envy of women conflicts and admiration hatred But when gone through all this it still explain everything Many people with sexual difficulties would never engage in this kind of a behavior that revolts us all beyond even the impulse killer who say shoots up a machine shop what Carl Brown a demented former Hialeah school teacher did in Dade County in 1982 killing eight Brown was tormented by in his mind He was run down by a pursuing motorist as he rode away from the bloody scene on a bicycle bringing the death toll to nine The psychopathic murderer is spurred by motives less clear say that said Jacobson that he was drinking or enraged over losing a job We all understand disappointment anger helplessness but I think we can understand an act such as this such intense hostility combined with some bizarre sexual feeling so different from our ordinary Jacobson senses sexual crime was involved in Gainesville perhaps rape or sexual mutilation Police have indicated that mutilations did occur Except for one young male all the victims were college women has the picture of unspoiled youthful people with whom most of us would have empathy and yet here is someone who hates that and whose purpose from the beginning was to The crime has broad impact The grief There are those whose thoughts are on the families Audrey Sweet of Miami Beach whose son Andy 28 was slain eight years ago told me: "They begun to grieve yet still in shock But when they do my God husband Nelan is president of Parents of Murdered Children whose local membership has grown to more than 100 "They will need all the help they can Meanwhile Jacobson pondered the warps of a mind might say his problem is psychological a built-in abnormality that generates additional sadism somehow fused with the sexual impulse In some way all twisted together and you get an individual who feels a need to commit this act in order to relieve something that is pushing him A i Ralph Renick quits TV commentary post A 4 'J A 'i 'A i Al AAi A A PA Ar4 AVC' PA "A 4 Vila spent 35 years as anchorman and news director to run for Florida governor He ended his campaign after six months and in 1988 became commentator at Channel 6 Renick's contract with Channel 6 runs out next month There had been speculation that he was being let go because his evening commentaries were not creating the viewer response management wanted WC1X once an independent station was bought by CBS in January 1989 Channel 6 station manager Jay Newman said Renick "is going to leave because he wants to do other things There's no bitterness here at the point where he wants to have more flexibility" The New York-born Renick came to Miami when he was 12 A graduate of the University of Miami he started the 15-minute Ralph Renick Report for Channel 4 in 1950 By JUAN CARLOS COTO Herald Entertainment Writer Ralph Renick the legendary South Florida television newsman is signing off Again South first TV anchor and the No 1 rated for 34 years will deliver his final commentary for WCIX-Channel 6 on Sept 7 remain on staff LK until Sept 30 just switching to something that I think will be Renick 62 said Wednesday In 1985 Renick resigned from WTVJ-Channel 4 where he had 4 CM GUERRERO Miami Herald Staff Josefina Calderon takes a moment to enjoy a breeze at Virginia Key beach where members of the Little Havana Activity Center held their annual picnic Telephone company unveils new directories Book A-K features ayet-to-be built trauma center at the University of Miami Jackson Memorial Medical Center Book L-Z celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Greater Miami Opera operations manager said organizations clamor like Playboy bunnies to get on the phone book covers are approached by several entities every said Gomez is an honor because of the visibility and the said Jackson's Clark His hospital was selected because it trying to raise $25 million for a trauma center It would be the only 24-hour fully equipped center south of Orlando the opera was selected because of its anniversary and because of its efforts to bring schoolchildren into the arts "There are people here unlike any other city who could tell you who has been on every cover for the last 10 said Ira Clark Past covers have featured the University of Miami Florida International University Barry University Bayside Metrozoo and public By GEOFFREY TOMB Herald Staff Writer The new telephone books are out And now for the news No really In Miami this has become AN EVENT The preview of the 1990-91 Greater Miami Telephone was held Wednesday and dozens of besuited folks showed up The mayor of Dade County Steve Clark removed blue velvet drapes which had kept hidden w'hat was on the covers of the new books Cameras whirled Flashes popped The president of the public health trust spoke Even an opera baritone broke into song "They certainly do this in New said Ira Clark Public Health Trust president and head of Jackson Memorial Hospital No they A total of 995194 copies split- Yn '-j Greater Miami Books A-K feature a yet-to-be built trauma center at the University of MiamiJackson Memorial Medical Center Books L-Z celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Greater Miami Opera This explains why Clark was there and why baritone Lawrence Craig hit some peaks and valleys of Largo al Factotum della Citta which may be Italian for large phone books are here in the Tito Gomez a Southern Bell ting the alphabet again with A-K and L-Z and weighing more than 126 million pounds will slam onto doorsteps in neighborhoods near you beginning today and running through Oct 5 Inside on 100 percent recyclable paper one will find 2032 pages in A-K and 1972 pages in K-M The first Miami phone book in the 1920s was one page Breathlessly we have waited a whole year for the word of what is on the covers of the new directory NEW PHONE BOOK: In Miami a news event transportation Jackson has tried for several years according to Gomez CHMIMiamBBK!.