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AIL stairs winn AM-Star SANDY ALOMAR'S TWO-RUN HOMER FINISHES OFF NATIONAL LEAGUE 3-1 SPORTS 1C Site JSterni final THE HEATHER Afternoon thunderstorms 9078 Details Page 3B The Foremost Daily Newspaper of Florida 87th YEAR No 221 Copyright 1997 The ami Herald WEDNESDAY JULY 9 1997 35 Cents For home delivery call 305 350-2000 Fugitive is shot dead 'sa i after chase across state Greenville (S News-Piedmont THE SUSPECTS: Brothers Billy left and David George were fleeing federal charges JOE RIMKU8 JR Herald Staff PREMIUM VIEW: In a model suite Rick Lassiter shows off the close-to-the-action view in new hockey arena Living the suite life at Panthers games can cost $120000 Hostage unharmed in gunfire considered to be a cash cow to private individuals and corporations In an area that will soon have four sports arenas it could be a hard sell But the Panthers are optimistic think with the popularity of hockey in South Florida we feel good about our ability to market these suites and we think be said Stan Smith spokesman for the team If all the suites are sold they could bring more than $65 million a year PLEASESEE SUITES 14A By JULIE KAY Herald Staff Writer So sports fans you say you want to watch the Florida Panthers play in comfort and style You say you want a view that be beat You say you want that expensive private suite so you and your pals can party in luxury Are you willing to pay between $70000 and $120000 a year? the going price for one of 70 suites at the new hockey arena under construction in Sunrise The Panthers are about to launch a yearlong marketing blitz to pitch the suites generally By YVES COLON ANA ACLE And ANDRES VIGLUCCI Herald Staff Writers Firing out a car window at their pursuers two desperadoes led state troopers on a brazen chase across the bottom of the Florida peninsula Tuesday with a terrified woman they had abducted near Fort Myers at the wheel The flight from justice by brothers Billy and David George wanted their home state of South Carolina on kidnapping and burglary charges ended in a hail of bullets on Krome Avenue at the edge of the Everglades The toll: Billy George dead David George in custody Miraculously neither law enforcement officers nor the kidnapped woman Fort Myers Realtor Edith Silver was hurt was one heck of a said Ken Howes a spokesman for the Florida Highway Patrol bad guy was standing up shooting out through the window at the troopers When they stopped they just got into a shootout They shot him dead just laying there dead hanging in the Another FHP spokesman said PLEASESEE ABDUCTION 14A Warning: Diet-drug mix may damage heart valves patients to be released early seven weeks before its scheduled publication The Food and Drug Administration also sent a letter Tuesday notifying thousands of physicians across the country of the new concern about the fenfluramine-phentermine combination The 24 patients in the study all women with an average age of 43 and with no previous history PLEASESEE DIET 14A By DOLORES KONG The Boston Globe BOSTON The popular diet drug combination known as fen-phen prescribed to about 1 8 million Americans last year has been linked for the first time to serious heart-valve disease according to a study released Tuesday Because of the urgency of the findings the New England Journal of Medicine took the unusual step of allowing the study of 24 MARICE COHN BAND Herald Staff ON KROME AVENUE: The body of Billy George is covered up at the passenger side of the hijacked BMW lower left Police captured his brother David after he fled into the woods 1 INSIDE 4 A 7 Savings are a phone call away Do you know what type of long-distance service you have? Millions of Americans pay more for long-distance service than they need to by not asking for discount plans a consumer group says ID Dow hits new high and flirts with 8000 The Dow lands 38 points shy of 8000 as investors usher the profit-reporting season with a hearty vote of confidence The famed barometer rises 103 82 to 796231 the first close above 7900 7B I Dominoes: a connection to the past NASA TV AP THE RED PLANET: OLD AND RUSTY Sojourner the robot geologist explores surface Since arriving Friday the rover and its mother ship Pathfinder have snapped 1575 images about half of them including this one making up a full-color panorama of the landing site The rover also executed the first on the Red Planet spinning its wheels to test the composition of the soil Story 8A What a kick: a Miami-style name for team NEW YORK The Miami Fusion is: A) a 1 970s disco group B) how your shirt sticks to you in the middle of July C) a $20 million professional soccer team If you answered correct Major League Soccer announced uesday that expansion team which begins play at the Orange Bowl in March 1998 will be named the Fusion The team logo is a cobalt blue oval around a futuristic yellow sun with 12 rays one for each team in the league name Fusion is explosive and powerful and it symbolizes the unification of multinational said team owner Ken Horowitz the Palm Beach cellular phone mogul at a press conference at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel is a symbol that soccer fans of all nationalities will gather in Miami to see a dynamic See story in Sports 1C NATO invites 3 nations into the club Senate must approve Polish Hungarian Czech entries From do-or-die matches at clubs or breezy games played kitchens the game is deeply woven into South culture Dominoes is about homeland about memories about dreams ID anel rejects category A task force recommends that Americans have the option to choose more than one racial category on census and other federal forms but rejects a proposal to add a category 12A 10 190 organizations such as NATO is the best way to avoid inflaming European rivalries that led to world wars twice in this century But Clinton must still persuade the Senate to ratify this change in structure Even top White House aides concede that will be a tough sell for it would extend the US nuclear umbrella to new partners in a region recorded by history as unstable and would cost US taxpayers an PLEASESEE NATO ISA for the first time in history is a very great Clinton said in a speech at the US Embassy only for Europe and the United States not only for NATO but indeed for the cause of freedom in the aftermath of the Cold Clinton has pushed for three years to extend security zone east in an effort to stabilize the democracies rising there fiom the ashes of the Soviet empire He says he believes that integrating them into Western By ROBERT A RANKIN Herald Washington Bureau MADRID In a historic move the 16 nations of NATO on Tuesday invited three formerly communist countries of Central Europe to join the military alliance that faced down Moscow in the Cold War President Clinton hailed the bids to Poland Hungary and the Czech Republic to join the alliance as giant toward creating Europe that is undivided democratic and at THE INDEX ACTION LINE 2A GRADY 21A BUSINESS 7B HOROSCOPE 7D CLASSIFIED 7C LANDERS 7D COMICS 8D LOCAL IB CROSSWORD 7D MOVIES 40 DEATHS 4B SPORTS 1C EDITORIALS 20A TELEVISION 30 FLORIDA 5B YO 8D 777851 13333 The Miami Herald Publishing Company FiffTNTERNET MOREfCALCEHSOO A id 4 I klA-iiy i-.