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ASBURYI YOUR complete; newspaper EXECUTIVE PAY Does compensation equal Performance? A look at some companies' executives. BUSINESSB1 1 7AYTT 1 Hospital AF1IRMATH OF TOE LA VERDICT NEW JERSEY: In Teaneck community leaders urge demonstrators to channel their anger over the Rodney King verdict into an effort toward ending racism. Story, A3. LOS ANGELES: Korean-Americans (right), carrying U.S. and Korean flags, rally for healing in the aftermath of the riots.

A young boy (below) runs through smoldering ruins at Vermont Avenue and Eighth Street. SOUTH KOREA: In a rally at Hanyang University in Seoul, people (right) read newspaper reports of the Los Angeles riots. Tensions are running high because of the attacks on Korean-American businesses. Story, A8. AW 0eauriup IbegDims as city calms got extra payments Kimball Medical Center, Lakewood, ranked first In keeping Medicare overpayments, according to a1 U.S.

survey. By MARK LAGERKVIST PRESS STAFF WRITER KIMBALL MEDICAL Center ranked No. 1 in a national survey, but officials at the Lakewood hospital are riot cheering. A federal audit reported Kimball kept just over $700,000 in overpayments from Medicare more than any of the 75 other hospitals studied by the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

i "It's not an honor I'm particularly proud of," said i Joseph Sherber, Kimball president. Sherber said the hospital was guilty of "sloppy bookkeeping" and failures to inform authorities of overpayments but not fraud. Kimball con-tends the $700,178 figure is wrong because the hospital provided federal au This thing is not going to be allowed to continue. The new procedures are in place, Joseph Sherber KIMBALL MEDICAL CENTER PRESIDENT ditors with erroneous financial records. Sherber said Kimball actually owes Medicare a smaller amount that could range from to $565,000.

Nationally, hospitals have received but not returned $265 million in Medicare overpayments, the inspector general estimated. That projection is based on a series of audits concluding76 randomly selected hospitals in nine states $8.6 million in excessive payments. The audits included eight New Jersey hospitals that owe a total of $1.5 million, the inspector general reported. I The review is part of an effort by the inspector general to eliminate abuses of Medicare a federal program funded by a payroll tax on workers. The overpayments usually occurred when hospitals received duplicate disbursements from Medicare or Overlapping payments from the program and insurance companies for patient bills.

Under federal rules, the hospital must report any Medicare overpayments within 60 days of receipt. lease see Hospital, pageA17 I) Ifel I gaa.H?a& Simi Valley, acquitted four white Los Angeles police officers in their trial for the beating of black motorist Rodney King, setting off looting and violence in Los Angeles Race and riots' enter '92 campaign Associated Press Photos By MICHAEL FLEEMAN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES With armed soldiers standing guard, residents of burned and looted neighborhoods swept up yesterday after three days of rioting that deeply scarred the city and shook the nation. "We go from the mess-up, to the mop-up, to the make-up," said the Rev. Cecil Murray of First AME Church, which has sheltered people either left homeless by the rioting or too fearful to stay in their homes. Four black strangers save a battered white truck driver from the eye of the riot as a camera records it.

Story, A8 The Rodney King case is a violent illustration of how technology is straining the institutions that were set up for an earlier age. Story, A9 Korean-Americans and other demonstrators marched through Los Angeles and staged a rally, singing the Korean and American national anthems and hearing prayers of forgiveness for the rioters, many of whom targeted Korean-owned businesses. Organizers and helicopter pilots estimated the crowd at 100,000, but police said there were 25,000. "This is our country," Helen Kim, a medical student and member of the Korean American Society, told the crowd. "It is not a Caucasian or Latino or Afro-American or Korean-American country.

It is a patchwork of many people and we need to keep it together." About 2,800 National Guard troops patrolled the city, which exploded into violence following Wednesday's acquittal of four white policemen who beat a black motorist, Please see Cleanup, page A8 But builders and farmers bitterly oppose it, and local officials continue to have some differences with the state panel. Nevertheless, the commission plans to adopt a final version of its State Development and Redevelopment Plan by mid-June. From Tuesday to May 11, it will hold public hearings in each of New Jersey's 21 counties. The local hearings will be: In Monmouth County, 7 p.m. Thursday at the county Hall of Records (freeholder meeting room) in Freehold.

In Ocean County, 10 a.m. Saturday at Ocean County College (cafete- Please see Comments, page A9 00124 094346' Stevte G.B.'s Bar Employes Day, all welcome, $1 drafts, bar employes 50 drinks. Brian Kirk, S30-7B26 ranged. Suddenly, America and those who would lead it must confront its legacy of racial division. But the implications of a campaign that picks at this open wound are Please see Campaign, page A9 SHE Editor's book fries Congress' pork fat Comments on plan sought for last time By RICK LINSK PRESS STATEHOUSE BUREAU UNTIL WEDNESDAY, race relations and urban problems were barely a blip on the radar screen of the 1992 presidential campaign.

All that changed when a jury in in Strasburg, N.D. "It started out as just a weird little item, and it led me into this strange, perverse world of government spending," Kelly said. The result is "Adventures in Pork-land," Kelly's forthcoming book on pork barrel politics and what it costs the American taxpayer about $97 billion a year, according to the author. Besides calling pork "the politics of selfishness," Kelly defines a true pork barrel appropriation as "everyone's money spent for the pleasure of a few." Pork, he notes in his third book, is the true grease that turns congressional wheels, in the classic, 'I'll vote for your bill if you'll vote for mine' tradition. Some prime examples, as contained in Newsweek's excerpt from Kelly's book, which will be published by Random House in September: Please see Pork, page A16 Kentucky Derby Coverage, the Press' own BID Hsndlemsn reports from Church! Downs.

In sports. and several other U.S. cities. As the City of Angels burned, stomachs churned across the nation with anger over the verdict and fear of how that anger might erupt. Suddenly, say political analysts, civil rights leaders and academics, the political agenda has been rear Lil E.

Teerrific! In upset at the Kentucky Dei by, jockey Pat Day guides 17-to-1 shot Ul E. Tee to victory; the favorite, Arazl, falters In the stretch and finishes eighth. SPORTSHI Warm breezes windy and partly sunny today; highs 73-76. Tomorrow will be breezy and cool, highs 61-64. WEATHER A2 Late-night duel Can Arsenlo Hall overcome Jay Leno In the competition for johnny Carson's audience? USA WEEKEND Business B1 Movies E2 Classified hi Obituaries A22 Editorials C2 Panorama D1 Arts ft Leisure Real Estate G1 SO-Plus C7 Sports HI Front Page 2 AA1 Travel Fl Impact CI A2 NEWS SUMMARY, INDEX A2 Not New York, Not Philadelphia Proud to be New Jersey 101 .5 FM Radio Residents can speak this week on the state's development plan for the 2 1 st century before Its adoption next month.

By RICK LINSK PRESS STATEHOUSE BUREAU TRENTON New Jersey residents will have their final chance this week to critique or challenge a commission's blueprint, six years in the making, for how and where the state should be developed into the 21st century. The State Planning Commission and a wide range of supporters from environmentalists to industry say the proposal would protect the environment, revitalize cities, and promote economic growth by limiting the much-maligned suburban sprawl seen in the 1980s. fl Brian Kelly, a former Shore-area resident, documents some of Washington's questionable spending practices. By COLEEN DEE BERRY PRESS STAFF WRITER LAWRENCE WELK was the unlikely inspiration behind Brian Kelly's new book on Washington politics. Not that Kelly, a Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School graduate and now an editor at The Washington Post, was a big fan of Welk's "wunner-ful, wunnerful" style of champagne music.

1 But Congress' generous tribute to the bandleader intrigued Kelly. In 1990, with the federal deficit in the billions, Congress tucked away in an appropriations bill a $500,000 allocation to restore Welk's boyhood home Mad over a mall Despite revised plans, a proposed shopping center In Old Bridge Township continues to face opposition, frontpage TWOAAl Making peace American veterans revisit Vietnam to reconcile the past. IMPACTC1 Classic shake-up Record companies try to boost sales of classical music with sexier packaging. ARTS ft LEISUREE1. Tides, T-ftrds.

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