THE 1987 PAN AMERICAN GAMES : Notes : Anti-Castro Group Wants to Take Fight With Boxers to Court

Lawyers representing anti-Castro demonstrators who were beaten up by members of the Cuban boxing delegation Friday night at the Pan American Games have asked Prosecutor Stephen Goldsmith of Marion County (Indianapolis) to file criminal charges against the Cubans.

According to Thomas Blackburn, an attorney for the Cuba Independence Party (CID), Goldsmith said he would decide by today if he intends to file charges.

CID lawyers also have asked that charges be brought against Cuban baseball delegation members for their part in a CID-Cuba scuffle at Bush Stadium after a game last week.

CID lawyers asked that criminal battery charges be filed against boxer Pablo Romero, Cuba’s world light-heavyweight champion and one of the first of the Cubans who went into the stands after the demonstrators Friday. Spectators seated near the brawl said the demonstrators first shouted at the Cuban boxers, then tore a Cuban flag.

The group’s lawyers also said that they would file a civil suit against Cuban athletes and delegation members, seeking “millions” of dollars in damages. The civil action would specifically name Cuban delegation official Alberto Juantorena, a double track gold medalist at the 1976 Olympics, who was quoted by the Miami Herald as saying CID demonstrators “stamped” on a Cuban flag at the boxing venue.

“We would never do this,” said CID leader Huber Matos Jr.

“In this country, you have to respect the law. . . . We respect the law and we expect the Cubans to do it, too,” Matos told the Indianapolis Star.

A spokeswoman at the Marion County prosecutor’s office said Wednesday that Goldsmith was still talking to police and other witnesses to the boxing fracas.

Carl Borack, the U.S. fencing team captain, grew up in Beverly Hills and is a Hollywood producer, but his interest in swordplay is not the result of swashbuckling movies. With Borack, was one of the best fencers in the country United States from 1965 until his retirement after the 1972 Olympics, it is a case of sport for sport’s sake.

For a long while, though, he put it behind him. The terrorist attack on the Israeli Olympic team at Munich in 1972 temporarily soured him on international sport.

“I had two friends killed,” he said. “The Olympics were to be the height of my career. Instead, they are a bitter memory.”

Borack recently became involved again, however, although now he’s in administration. He is the executive vice president of the U.S. Fencing Assn. and has served as captain on several recent international tours.

He is back at the Pan American Games for the first time since he won a gold medal in the team foil competition in the 1971 games in Cali, Colombia. He also won a gold medal in team epee in the 1967 games in Winnipeg.

“Somehow around all of this, I’ve found some time to work,” said Borack, 40. “But it’s difficult. You’ve got people back working on rewrites trying to get projects going.”

Borack, who co-produced “The Big Fix” with Richard Dreyfuss, a Beverly Hills High School classmate, said that his latest project is a planned film called “Deadly Conviction,” a suspense drama based on the book by Phillip Luber, a Harvard professor.

Borack said he had yet to place the movie with a studio.holbreich

Keba Phipps, a middle blocker on the U.S. women’s volleyball team from Lakewood, has returned to San Diego for medical reasons, said Chris Dawson, a spokesperson for the volleyball events.

Phipps had surgery to remove kidney cysts in May. She did not play in a loss to Brazil Tuesday after complaining of pain. Phipps will be examined in San Diego by team physcian Dr. Lee Rice.

Phipps, who turned 18 on June 30, is the youngest member of the U.S. team.

The loss of Phipps means the United States (1-3) will have only 11 players available when it plays Cuba (4-0) in the semifinals tonight. Cuba beat the U.S., 15-8, 15-8, 15-6, in round-robin play Saturday.

Times staff writer Curt Holbreich contributed to this story.