The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida (2024)

June 27, 1976

Publication:

The Miami Heraldi

Location:

Miami, Florida

Issue Date:

Sunday, June 27, 1976

Page:

167

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Action (Qi line See inutile bni'li! tan of that unction KEYS EDITION 50 Cents 66th Year No 209 July 4 Could Be a Bay to Remember On Mars From Herald Wirt Service PASADENA Calif While Americans are celebrating Independence Day 1976 Martians (if there are any) will have their own spectacular courtesy of the US space agency In a bit of Bicentennial bravado NASA is scheduled to land the biggest skyrocket of all an unmanned Viking spacecraft on the Red Planet in a mission to end centuries of speculation and hunt for the cosmic jackpot life on another planet The lander a three-legged stand-in for scientists millions of miles away is equipped with cameras and an automated laboratory to search the Martian soil and atmosphere Packed into the $50-nullion lab only the size of a breadbox are instruments designed to detect life even if it exists in only tiny quantities and in the most primitive forms: a few microscopic plants or animals mingled with dust for example perhaps lying dormant in the currently harsh Martian environment I I IN A WAY it is unfortunate that the Viking will land on July 4 because the inevitable flag-waving will obscure the true significance of the mission Viking is the culmination of a revolutionary decade in space revolutionary not only because of advances in technology but also because of changed view of the universe Viking now can look for life on Mars because man knows Turn to Page 26A Col -NANCY CHANIAN Miami Herald Staff urn Strong Greenspan Sags Growth Forecast Economic Summit Due Today in Puerto Rico From Herald Wirt Services SAN JUAN PR On the eve of the seven-nation economic summit conference opening today at Dorado Beach near here President top economic adviser expressed optimism in the strength of economic recovery in the United States but he warned that the official figure for the Gross National Product in the April-June quarter will be Low ry ZliJ i 'X 1 A ViV But April -3 GNP mr I i Il ft yf i 'V JCT 'ff Jr i 4 i At a I nwi a grade liquid silicone by a doctor not engaged in animal research is a federal crime An FDA spokesman in Washington explained a first offense is a misdemeanor it becomes a felony on the second offense An official with the State Board of Medical Examiners in Tallahassee said that under the Florida Medical Practices Act the injecting of liquid silicone was a civil violation He confirmed that Dr Gross is under investigation The 43-year-old doctor who is a board-certified dermatologist declined to talk with The Herald But his lawyer Harvey Richman said: "We deny this has been HE CALLED his client a reputa JL A4 jt -yw' i- 1 4 3 jk: -1 ELBERT Miami Herald Staff ble doctor who he was performing a service to the and 'added: "What he was doing was sound medical procedure and someday will become accepted While the implanting of small sacs of silicone gel into the female breast is considered a safe and accepted surgical procedure (An estimated 500000 American women have had these implants) organized medicine has long fought to prohibit the injection of liquid silicone The AMA in Chicago repeatedly has warned doctors that the injections into any part of the body can lead to abcesses infection migration or movement of the sili- Turn to Page 22A Col 1 lliijs' rebuttal Rabbi Baruch Korff diehard defender of Richard Nixon says he has a Bicentennial gitt for the American people: On July 4 release what he says are 200 and errors in Woodward and book Final Page 22A ISoustcr Silvan itlcjcr Civic activism is an unbroken thread in the career of Sylvan Meyer journalist and booster a he says wherever 1 Beating that drum Page 1G ISieciitciinial a celebration The Bicentennial Celebration is coming the Bicentennial Celebration is coming Starring 30 animals six covered wagons an 1899 Stanley Steamer and a cast of hundreds Presenting the greatest show in the history of South Florida theatricals Hooray hooray hooray and so on and so forth Page III Apai'liunils I on £li hunting Apartment hunting in South Florida? Vacancies have declined 26 per cent since last year and rents are up 1 ighler and tignter Page 17L Arts Council a tough fight effort to set up an arts and sciences council seemingly a task of little controversy is says one commissioner an awful James Nolan reports on an issue of almost byzantme complexity Page ID Itailoou Furope-bouml Look! Up in the sky! a red white and blue uh balloon apparently and it seems to be heading for Europe The Great Transatlantic Crossing Page 2A Callup Poll focus oil Carter Gallup pollsters find that the South will support the Democratic ticket this year in a manner reminiscent of the pre-Eisenhower era should Jimmy Carter become the presidential nominee Page 10 A Working Class Itritish history One day 60 years ago the British working class discovered that the British ruling class really did not necessarily know all there was to know and decided that perhaps the time had come to look after itself Notes on July 1 1916 the day the sun began to set Page IE WHERE TO FIND IT iiiriaL iuL-V iL i Mt ImmA Indian Made Tl- Alan Greenspan chairman of Council of Economic Advisers said Saturday aboard Air Force One en route with the President to the conference here that the official figures to be issued about July 20 may show the GNP to be below an annual rate of 5 per cent down sharply from the 87 per cent annual growth rate in the first quarter BUT GREENSPAN told reporters GNP growth will not accurately reflect the real economic growth which he said may have been about 6 per cent The difference between the sta- fistics" and the actual growth- he said is due to distortions in the sta- tistics He said he knows the fig- ures are inaccurate 'because all other economic indicators such as employment and industrial production show strong growth only figure that shows slowness is the official On his arrival here Saturday President Ford sajd'he hopes the summit economic conference which gets under way today give a new impetus to the growth of our worldwide economy and improve international The leaders of Britain Japan Italy and West Germany were scheduled to arrive later Saturday PRIME MINISTER Pierre Elliott Trudeau of Canada and President Valery Giscard of France were due to arrive today shortly before the two-day meeting opens Also scheduled to attend the summit for the United States are Secretary of State Henry Kissiger and Treasury Secretary William Simon Ford called the summit to discuss a common approach by the major industrial powers to problems of recovering from recession and to negotiations later this year with poor nations But an administration official said the agenda was left purposefully so a broad range of subjects could be discussed SOURCES HAVE said topics certainly would include the special problems of Italy and Britain with the United States urging in particular that they take stronger steps to slow the high inflation rates that are making the lira and the pound sterling lose value Ford said on arriving that the speed of economic recovery in industrialized nations as a major test of our ability to ensure long-term stability in our economy It is the special challenge facing the peoples of the industrialized Refugees Imperiled In Lebanon Two Camps Cut Off' In Heavy Fighting BEIRUT Lebanon (UPI) Leftist forces' advancing ynder heavy-artiUeryfjre drove deep ihto 'Christian territory Saturday trying to open ep a supply 'route to a pair of Palestinian refugee camps that 'have fought off tank-led for fiv days Overwhelmed by the three-mile- long advance into eastern Beirut Christian forces said they pulled back "with dead bodies of the enemy marking the trail of their re- The leftist attack came tions inside the heavily fortified Tal Zaatar and Jisr el-Basha camps grew desperate THE PALESTINIANS said Saturday that they had resisted an armored assault by 4000 Christians they given Privately the Palestinians ex pressed concern that the smaller Jisr el-Basha camp may fall if the offensive continues Newspapers quoted military observers as saying the battle prove decisive over the next 48 More than 1000 rounds of mor' tar rocket and artillery fire pound? ed the two battered camps overnight according to reports from the front and casualties soared to more than 170 dead and 300 wounded 1 Artillery and gun duels also raged throughout the garbage-strewn city now without without water electricity or bread supplies for five days 1 DOCTORS WARNED that the lack of sanitary facilities and tjie mounting piles of rotting garbage could touch off an outbreak of typhus "Famine and thirst are haunting' I Turn to Page 2A Col 3 Chuckle The energy crisis is teaching us how many absolute necessities we may run out of that our forefathers never imagined anyone needing in the first place ron Iloracio 1 and Blanca-Araceli Sican Car-Guatemalan Indians are selling handicrafts this mona 2 left show off some of the weekend in Coconut Peaco*ck Park weaving The group also plans visits to other Gavina Carmona-Lopes and her children Bay- US cities Beach Doctor Under Investigation In Silicone Injections for Women By BARD LlNDEMAN Herald Medical Writer The medical watchdog agency is investigating a Miami Beach doctor who admittedly has flouted the law by injecting more than 100 patients with liquid silicone most of them young women seeking larger breasts The women came from all over Florida to 1688 Meridian Ave where they paid $100 a visit to Dr BG Gross who promised results The patients were instructed to pay cash in advance for the silicone injections which both the US Food and Drug Administration and the American Medical Association consider experimental medicine and as such dangerous T1IE POSSESSION of medical The Drug Enforcers: Success and Controversy drive too fast and are abrasive in dealing with local police It is a controversy fueled by leaks and laced with personality differences that nearly destroyed the federally funded multi-agency task force which Central Florida lawmen created 18 months ago to combat middle- to high-echelon drug trafficking With three DEA agents as supervisors a dozen or so detectives from 12 local police agencies have made 154 arrests and confiscated heroin cocaine and amphetamines with a DEA-cstimated street value of almost $6 million during the last year PROSECUTORS agree that the DEA is making good cases According to one DEA- spokesman of 73 cases that have gone to trial so far there have been 50 convictions But some of the local police involved in the task force have begun to complain of taci tics used in making the arrests saying that the DEA agents in effect were leading the local officers astray Three of the locaj law enforcement agencies which joined the task force Orange County Orlando and Turn to Page 24A Col i By WILLIAM AMLONG Herald Staff Writer ORLANDO One night last December having bought $3900 worth of cocaine that a burly fellow with a Fu Manchu mustache and a long bladed knife took three of his associates and visited two pool hall owners It is in some dispute whether the man with the mustache used the knife merely to clean his fingernails or held it to the crotch of one of the pool hall owners as they discussed a refund Later that night fearing a second visit the pool hall owners called city police and complained of armed prowlers The pool hall owners would later say that the four had made it clear they were with the Mafia IN FACT the four were agents of the US Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration Central Florida Task Force based Orlando And so was born another in a series of incidents that has catapulted the task force into controversy The list ranges from charges of brutality to complaints that the agents 0 i.

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