The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 93

mri I THE HEART OF THE The time of the year when everything is going on bro TUESDAY FEBRUARY 6 1996 CONTENTS COPYRIGHT 1996 THE MIAMI HERALD 25 CENTS jfc a w' -v -v wvV- '38L fl NV fc xzZZZ 4 IN I Jj 4 V' 'S VA 7 ST S' V' Si TS'ts ww5 nsnooii 4 'i HfV 4 ri- Whitewater defendant seeks his testimony By ANGIE CANNON And AARON EPSTEIN Herald Washington Bureau WASHINGTON A federal judge on Monday ordered a subpoena for President Clinton to testify next month possibly on videotape in the Whitewater trial of Susan and James McDou-gal his partners in an Arkansas real estate venture that failed US District Judge George Howard Jr ordered court officials to prepare a subpoena for the president in the fraud and conspiracy trial which begins March 4 in Little Rock Susan defense attorney Bobby McDaniel has said that Clinton can impeach the credibility of the star witness former Municipal Judge David Hale who also owned a government-backed finance company Hale has accused Clinton and James McDougal of pressuring him into making a fraudulent $300000 loan backed by the Small Business Administration (SBA) to an advertising company owned by Susan McDougal in PHIL LONG Herald Staff PENGUIN DUTY: Fred Futch a grower near Plant City Fla breaks ice off a frozen sprinkler head in his strawberry field President Clinton increases for consumers got said Chip Hinton executive director of the Florida Strawberry Growers Association On that point he spoke for many like cold weather but this is just too said Tami Aizenstat rushing back to her car after dropping off her daughter and son at Sun- 1986 Hale has said that Clinton was trying to help James McDougal bail out his failing thrift Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan Clinton has denied pressuring Hale into making the loan Last August the McDougals and Arkansas Gov Jim Guy were set in nearly every corner of the state Monday: 37 at Miami Beach 34 at Hollywood 33 at West Palm Beach 19 at Jacksonville 16 at Tallahassee In north and central Florida fruit and vegetable growers confronted a hard freeze that rolled in colder and lingered longer than predicted They warned of moderate to heavy crop damage and growers throughout Florida speculated about future price should range from the mid 50s in northernmost Florida to the mid 60s in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale area and the Keys But what a chill it was the coldest blast of air to frost the state since the disastrous Christmas freeze of 1989 least no said Terry Sherman of Pembroke Pines clearly an optimist Record lows for the date By MARTIN MERZER And PHIL LONG Herald Staff Writers In North Florida records shattered like a dropped tray of ice cubes In Central Florida juice hardened into slush inside unpicked oranges In South Florida residents dug into their dressers and found aha! gloves By this afternoon the Big Chill of '96 will be frozen in memory Temperatures PLEASE SEE CLINTON 5A PLEASESEE COLD 5A Monday temperatures: record lows for Feb 5 Richmond Va -1 Allentown Pa -6 Asheville -1 Atlantic City -8 Becklev Va-16 Houston 23 Forecasted temperatures for Monday night Wash -10 FLORIDA Miami Beach 37 Hollywood 34 Jackson Miss 10 Palm Beach 33 New York 7 Jacksonville 19 Is 20s Is Paducah Ky 5 Tallahassee 16 30s 40s 10s Wake up kids no more time for naps Half-day only at 4 Broward kindergartens By LISA ARTHUR Herald Staff Writer In a West Broward elementary school Monday all the rhetoric about school crowding finally translated into the universal language of parenting: What this means for my family and my kid About 20 parents became among the first in the district to grasp the future in Broward schools The reality stunned many of them They had gathered in the library of Country Isles Elementary in Weston to hear how life would change when half-day kindergarten begins next fall at four of West most crowded schools: Chapel Trail in Pembroke Pines Silver Ridge in Davie Silver Palms in Cooper City and Country Isles Superintendent Frank Petruzielo South Area Superintendent Ben Arculco and School Board member Diana Wasserman were there on a goodwill mission They wanted parents to tell them how the district can make the half-day schedule as family-friendly as possible Instead they got anger Petruzielo fielded irate questions with a smile and gently explained over and over: simply not enough room to keep 20s 10s 50s 20s 30s 20s In Atlanta firefighters set rags afire around a frozen hydrant to get it working In St Paul Minn high school bands were dropped from a parade because of fears their lips would freeze to brass instruments In North Carolina ice downed electnc lines leaving 240000 customers without power In Baldwin County Ala TV station WPMI was knocked off the air by seven inches of ice on its tower On Pensacola Beach water pipes froze and broke In citrus belt about 50 percent of the winter crop is endangered by the cold LEGEND 30s -i Is 10s 20s 'vis 1 30s 40s 50s 30s 40s 40s v50s SOURCE Weather Services Corp HIRAM HENRIQUEZ Herald Staff PLEASE SEE SCHOOLS 7A Israel says thanks to an American hero A new role on new channel for Norcross American group called the Emergency Rescue Committee charged with helping 200 prominent Jews flee German-occupied France Among the people on his list were some of the greatest cultural figures including artists Marc Chagall and Max Ernst writer Hannah Arendt and sculptor Jacques Lipshitz Fry was to have stayed three weeks He ended up staying 13 months helping about 4000 Jews escape was an American Oskar Schin- manning microphone for 23 straight hours during Hurricane Andrew in 1992 He says happy about staying here: the opportunity to do things I wanted to do and to keep doing things that are important to Norcross will do weather forecasts at 5 and 6 pm and will co-anchor the 5:30 pm news broadcast with Ileana Varela meteorologist Bob Soper will continue to forecast weather on the 5:30 and 1 1 pm broadcasts In addition to his on-camera duties Norcross will produce special weather reports for Channel 4 and From Herald Wire Services JERUSALEM On a lane of trees commemorating the among the Gentiles who helped save Jews from the Nazis Warren Christopher on Monday planted the first tree to commemorate an American The tree the US secretary of state planted at Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial honors Varian Fry a freelance writer and high school Latin teacher who Fry died in obscurity at age 59 in 1967 Fry arrived in Marseille France in 1940 as a representative of a private By ROBIN DOUGHERTY Herald Television Critic Last year WFOR captured stronger broadcast signal in a network deal Now WFOR has nabbed one of most popular on-air personalities: Bryan Norcross On Feb 1 5 Norcross will return to the air in a new role as an anchorweathercaster for WFOR-Channel 4 according to an announcement Monday by Allen Shaklan vice president and general manager for the CBS-owned station His new job title is director of meteorology and news anchor worked out says Norcross who became a household name in South Florida by DO NEWS: Bryan Norcross PLEASESEE HERO 7A PLEASESEE NORCROSS 4A PAPAL JOURNEY OF HOPE OJ CALLING THE INDEX HOROSCOPE 7C LANDERS 7C LOCAL 1BR LOCAL EXTRA IB MOVIES 4C SPORTS ID TELEVISION 5C CNN hears his defense OJ Simpson makes an hour-long call saying he had just one fight with Nicole and that she made up abuse allegations 4A ACTION LINE 2A BUSINESS 7B CLASSIFIED 9D COMICS 6C CROSSWORD 6C EDITORIALS 8A FLORIDA 5B First stop in Central America: Guatemala Guatemalans exuberantly welcome Pope John Paul II as he begins his first visit to Central America in 13 years 6A A LEANER BARNETT Banking units merging In a move applauded by analysts Barnett Bank announces a cost-cutting plan to centralize 32 banking units into five 7B SO LEAN GONE drops burger The reduced-fat McLean Deluxe joins the list of McDonald's burgers sent down the corporate disposal 7B LOCAL EXTRA Burned officer going to Broward rehab hospital Plantation detective Jim burned in July in an explosion is moving to a Sunrise hospital today IB Put up or shut up on arena official says County Commission Chairman John Rodstrom told Fort Lauderdale officials to put up or shut up on the new arena 18 SEE DAD OR GO TO JAIL Judge gives teen a choice A judge has threatened to send a teen to jail for refusing to see her father who has visitation rights 5A South Florida forecast Mostly sunny: a shower or two A STEP CLOSER TO HOME: Detective Jim High 66 low 56 WEATHER 3B HMMirn Js aJj i.