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StateRegion B8 Tuesday, December 8, 1992 Rockland Journal-News Rate board: D'Amato is victor in Senate race IN BRIEF Ferraro smarting from negative campaign 4P 1 miM-i-" Guard kiSIs self Bronx hospital A security guard at a Bronx hospital killed himself with a stolen gun yesterday morning in an emergency room laboratory, authorities said. Jose Torres, 34, shot himself in election to Republican incum-bent Alfonse D'Amato by 80,794 votes, according to results certified yesterday by the state Board of Elections. the head with the revolver at about 9 a.m., shortly tL 1 1 'ft. 1 IV It FERRARO! Aims to work with Clinton Ferraro was hurt during the The Associated Press ALBANY Geraldine Ferraro, who lost a nasty Democratic primary battle with Attorney General Robert Abrams, said yesterday Abrams was the ultimate victim of negative tactics in the U.S. Senate campaign.

Ferraro, in Albany for the first stop in what she called her "Thank You Tour" of upstate cities, said the effect of negative campaigning could be seen on Election Day. More than 600,000 New Yorkers who voted for a presidential candidate declined to cast votes in the Senate race, "skipping the line in pure disgust," she said. Ferraro, the former New York City congresswoman and vice presidential candidate, lost to Abrams in the Democratic primary for the Senate. Abrams then lost the Nov. 3 "It's self-destructive," she said.

"There was enough that blew "ftp around us so that Bob AbraffiJf went down with it." The negative campaign straj? gy backfired on Holtzman, Ferraro said. "Look where she came Tih She came in behind Al SharptoK and that was certainly an indication that they (voters) were angry," she said. She said she will work "very, very hard" for state Assemblyman Alan Hevesi when he challenges! Holtzman for her job as New York! City comptroller next year. In the meantime, Ferraro said! her name is being "kicked around" as a possible candidate for a posf-j tion in President-elect Bill CUn-i ton's administration. Ferraro's tour includes appear-? ances in Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo today.

i. The Associated Press ALBANY Republican incumbent Alfonse D'Amato was declared the winner of last month's U.S. Senate election by the state Board of Elections yesterday in what was one of the closest Senate races in New York history. The board also certified Democrat Bill Clinton's strong showing over President Bush to capture New York's 33 electoral votes, the second largest prize in the nation. In the Senate race, the two-term GOP senator beat New York's three-term Attorney General Robert Abrams by 80,794 votes.

The board said D'Amato received 3,166,994 votes or 44.7 percent to Democrat Abrams' 3,086,200 votes or 43.5 percent. In the presidential race, Clinton received 3,444,450 votes or 48 percent; Bush got 2,346,649 or 33 percent; and independent Ross Perot received 1,090,721 or 15 percent. Overall, the state board said 7,068,630 New Yorkers cast ballots on Nov. 3. That represents 77 percent of those registered to vote, the best turnout since the 1980 election.

Of the voting age population, 52 percent of New Yorkers went to the polls, the best showing by that measure since 1972. The state board also reported that more than 600,000 New Yorkers primary campaign when published reports of alleged ties between her and organized crime became an issue. Candidate Liz Holtzman and, to a lesser extent, Abrams used these reports to campaign against her. Ferraro said that if Holtzman had not started the negative campaigning, "then Al D'Amato would not have been elected to the United States Senate." D'AMATOi One of the closest Senate races in New York history. who voted for president didn't bother to cast ballots in the U.S.

Senate race, considered one of the nastiest in the nation. Gov. Mario Cuomo, who wasn't running this year, called the Senate race "a disaster" because of its negative tone. During a stop in Albany yesterday Geraldine Ferraro, who lost the Democratic Senate primary to Abrams, said the negativity of their issue to pay for public projects. primary likely cost Abrams the election.

Noting the number of New Yorkers who didn't vote in the Senate race, Ferraro said: "I think they were sending a very clear statement to politicians in both parties that they were fed up with negative campaigning." The voter falloff was even more striking when it came to Cuomo's proposal for an 1800 million bond The Jobs for the New, New York Bond Act drew less than 3.7 million votes, according to the elecjftn board. The proposal was defeated by more than 400,000 votes. MSM 9 3 mm aner iuusning ms smii as a guara in the emergency room at Bronx Municipal Hospital, said Lt. Richard Kuberski, a Police Department spokesman. The gun was reported stolen from a correction officer, Kuberski said.

No talks with News, union leaders say Two union leaders blocking Mortimer Zuckerman's bid to buy the Daily News said yesterday that no negotiations had been set with the prospective buyer. James Grottola, leader of the typographers union, and Newspaper Guild president Barry Lipton said they had received no overtures from Zuckerman's camp over the weekend or early yesterday. The statement followed a court ruling overturning a bankruptcy court decision that voided the typographers' agreement. Zucker-man has said he would not buy the paper if he had to accept its lifetime job guarantees. Daniels wants accuser's answers Randy Daniels' lawyer said yesterday she will ask the court this week to force Barbara Wood to answer questions under oath about her charges that Daniels sexually harassed her.

Wood, a reporter for the New York One cable news channel, accused Daniels, a former television newsman, of pressuring her for sex in 1987 when they both worked in City Council President Andrew Stein's press office. Daniels' lawyer, Regina Darby, said Wood had never been specific for the record about when and where Daniels accosted her because, Darby contends, she is lying. Woman in witness protection loses son A divorcee who was hidden by the government after her boyfriend became an informant against crime associates lost custody of her 11-year-old son to his father yesterday. State Supreme Court Justice David Saxe ruled that Andrea Gio-vino had put her son John in an "unstable" and "unsafe" situation by moving in with a drug trafficker. The judge awarded custody of John to his father Carmine.

Teen-agers killed in separate incidents NEW YORK A fight over an unpaid debt led to the death of a Queens youth and an argument in a Brooklyn apartment house ended in the shooting death of another 15-year-old, police said. Ryan Dionne, 15, of Queens, died from several stab wounds at 53rd Road and 74th Street in the borough's Woodside section about 9:30 p.m. Sunday, said Sgt. Ed Burns. Dionne had been arguing with Dale Ramphal, 17, also of Queens, who was arrested at his home afterward, police added.

Detectives found a 5-inch knife they said Ramphal allegedly had used to kill Dionne. They had been arguing over a debt, Burns added. Ramphal faces murder and weapons charges. In Brooklyn, Thedrick Hill, 15, was fatally shot in the chest and three other young people were wounded at 1487 Nostrand Burns said. The wounded trio were not seriously hurt, he added, but were taken to Kings County Hospital.

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