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A Sunfouj cfournaHNeUts METRO REGIONAL BRIEFS Compiled from Journal-News wires B6 ROCKLAND COUNTY, N.Y., SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1986 Jewel thieves drill Carrier's front door NEW YORK (AP) Two quick-working thieves drilled through the front-door locks at a branch of Cartier's, an exclusive jewelry store, and 1 made off with more than $100,000 in valuables Saturday, police said. "My campaign," he says, "is ters, and responses to O'Rourke what I do as governor." are performed by what he calls "the campaign." And a rose-garden strategy, coined by the press in the Nixon The ongoing controversy over Cuomo is running a vintage 'rose garden' re-election campaign. In which he performs as 'the governor' The burglars broke into four display cases, but left some jewelry behind, said Sgt. Norris Hollomon, a police department spokesman. Police received a call from the store's alarm company shortly after 4 a.m., but when officers arrived a few minutes later at the shop in the Westbury Hotel on Madison Avenue, the thieves had already fled, Hollomon said.

Later in the day, the store remained closed to the public. Inside, workers took inventory and police dusted the display cases for fingerprints and searched among the broken glass for clues. Apartment tower showers glass on 57th Street NEW YORK (AP) Glass fragments have been raining down on pedestrians and local busineses from a nearly completed 66-story apartment tower on West 57th Street, according to a published report. Neighborhood residents and workers have complained that the fragments, smaller than the size of a penny, have been falling on West 57th and West 58th Streets from the windows in the Metropolitan Tower, according to an article in the New York Post Saturday. The shimmering apartment tower, on West 57th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues, is being developed by real estate magnate Harry Macklowe.

No one was in his office to answer calls made Saturday. No injuries have been reported as a result of the falling glass, the Post noted. Steve Nuckel, Metropolitan Tower's construction manager, said the problem stemmed from trucking and installation damage of the 5-foot by 9-foot glass panes. They are installed earlier in the construction cycle than the smaller, conventional single panes, and are more difficult to protect from breaking, he said. Union chief sees 'inevitable' casino strike ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.

(AP) The head of the largest union of casino employees here said Saturday that a strike by about 20,000 members was inevitable after contract talks with gaming hall officials broke down. Three-year contracts between 11 casino hotels and the union were to expire at midnight Monday, and no new contract talks were scheduled, said Roy Silbert, president of Local 54 of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International union. The union has 13,000 members who work in the kitchens, restaurants, bars and cleaning rooms of the casinos, and 6,500 at establishments scattered throughout Ocean County. A strike would not have affected the Miss America Pageant on Saturday night because strike votes by union members were not scheduled until Sunday and Monday, Silbert said. He predicted that union members, including waiters, cleaners, porters, messengers and chambermaids, will overwhelmingly support a strike.

"A strike is inevitable," he said. "There won't be time for any more talks. Conductor arraigned on murder charge NEW YORK (AP) A recently fired subway conductor who was arrested last week on a 6-year-old murder charge was denied bail at his arraignment Saturday, according to a spokeswoman for the district attorney. Austin Weeks, 29, of Brooklyn, a Transit Authority conductor since October 1985, was charged with one count of second-degree murder in the 1980 killing of Terry Zilimbinakis, 17, of Brooklyn, said Linda Sachs, a spokeswoman for Brooklyn District Attorney Elizabeth Holtzman. By JEFFREY STINSON Gannett News Service ALBANY There was Gov.

Mario Cuomo surrounded by big color charts, piles of government forms and a model of the statue of liberty standing in front of a boldly worded poster that read "Governor Fights Paperwork." The scene, two Fridays ago in the Capitol, was staged so Cuomo could announce the latest accomplishments of his Office of Management and Productivity in its fight to cut governmental red tape. With bureaucrats and business lobbyists applauding and flashbulbs popping, Cuomo had produced a "photo opportunity" overkill for reporters so much so that Cuomo joked about it himself. But it succeeded in getting his picture on the evening news and in newspapers across the state. And every indication is New Yorkers will see more of the same this fall as Cuomo seeks re-election to a second term. To the frustration of Republican gubernatorial candidate Andrew P.

O'Rourke, Cuomo is running a vintage "rose garden" re-election campaign, in which he performs as "the governor" at official government functions such as these rather than as "candidate Cuomo" on the stump for political office. Cuomo makes no bones about, nor apologies for, the strategy. badly in the polls. "It is a Richard Nixon-style, rose-garden strategy designed to pretend there is no election because he has been coronated for life," said O'Rourke aide Richard Behn. "He's doing the same thing with us he does with everybody else.

It's one of our frustrations. His discussion of issues tends to be national and theological rather than about New York." O'Rourke is more blunt. "It's a dodge," he said, to keep Cuomo from making a "slip-up" on the campaign trail that could hurt him at the polls in the Nov. 4 general election. Why else, he asks, won't Cuomo debate him? In an effort' to smoke out Cuomo, O'Rourke last week began running television commercials in which he poses with a life-size, cardboard cutout of Cuomo that he plans to carry with him all fall.

In the ads, a live O'Rourke poses with the dummy and asks such questions as: Why won't Cuomo "get off his high horse and debate?" In another, he says, "Do you know me? I'm Andy O'Rourke and I'm running for governor against this guy. It's tough. Ask him why we're the highest-taxed people in the nation and he bobs and he weaves like a boxer. Ask him to debate and he runs even faster." By trying to make an issue of the Cuomo election strategy in ads like these, GOP strategists hope to turn the tables and capture the initiative in the campaign. years when former President Richard Nixon ignored Democratic challenger George McGovern in 1972 and confined his campaigning to acting presidential during photo opportunities in the White House rose garden, is, as Cuomo acknowledges, how incumbents with big leads in the polls campaign.

"It's the way Reagan does it, the way everybody does it," he said. To Cuomo's thinking, he has a 3 -year record in office that the public is aware of and on which he can stand for re-election. If the public likes his performance, he says, they will vote to keep him. His politics, he says, are his actions office. "The difference between now and 1982 (when he first ran for governor), is I had to campaign essentially as an outsider I don't have to do that now." What pure politics are done on Cuomo's behalf developing his television advertising, polling, campaign fund-raising dinners and let- whether he will debate O'Rourke, for instance, will be handled by "the campaign" because debates are purely political, Cuomo says, arguing he already has "dealt with it more than I should have." The campaign is coordinated by his son, Andrew, and is peopled by campaign manager Drew Zambelli, spokesman Gary Fryer, special counsel Fabian Palomino and other people separate from government, in the state Democratic Party or on leave from their governmental duties in the executive branch.

By leaving politics to them, Cuomo can appear above the fray, sit on his vast lead in the polls and go about being governor at official government appearances such as the one two Fridays ago. And it's great politics. It has left O'Rourke with nobody to engage in gubernatorial politics with except underlings a very frustrating situation for a challenger whose name recognition with the electorate is low and who is trailing A Plain Languag Lawyw VICTOR S. VITALE (N Y. A Flo.

Ban) West Nyack Free Consultation 358-1069 He was arraigned in Brooklyn Criminal Court, and denied bail at the request of Holtzman's office, Ms. Sachs said. Weeks was arrested Thursday as he handed in his ID card at TA headquarters after recently being fired for a bad work record, according to TA police spokesman William Murphy. The shooting occured April 13, 1980, at 11:58 p.m. on a southbound train as it pulled into the Avenue station in Brooklyn, Murphy said.

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