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SOCCER SCRAP: Clarkstown North 's Leo Arciniegas battles for ball in 3-1 loss to North Rockland, Dl. PEEiSMMT FEVERs Phils clinch; Giants, Braves tied, Dl HORflE-BUYIMG: How to cope at closing, in Real Estate GROUP'S AIM: Reunification of Ireland, 1 Today's High 64 LOW 30 More on back page WEDNESDAY September 29, 1993 1993 Gannett Suburban Newspapers Serving Rockland County since 1889 40 cents vf 2L First lady wows lawmakers iV r- -4fM percent will probably pay a little more money for better benefits, she said. Mrs. Clinton, breaking ground as a first lady, spent more than four hours answering questions from the two panels. She goes to three more congressional committees over the next two days as Congress starts wading into the issue.

No action is expected until well into next merce Committee, where she had headed after the Ways and Means panel. About 10 percent to 12 percent of the population mostly young, healthy people who have benefited from the current system will have to pay more for the same benefits, Mrs. Clinton said. Roughly 63 percent to 65 percent of people will pay the same or less for better bene- and Means Committee opened hearings on President Clinton's package. It is designed to provide coverage for all, rein in costs and spark competition.

Mrs. Clinton conceded the plan would probably cost one in 10 Americans more money for the same level of benefits. "We think we're being as fair as we can, but I want to be honest," the first lady told the House Energy and Com The Associated Press WASHINGTON Greeted with an unusual ovation from lawmakers, Hillary Rodham Clinton began the selling of her husband's health care plan in Congress yesterday. She acknowledged room to negotiate but insisted action must be swift. "As we sit here today, literally hundreds and hundreds of Americans will lose their health care," Mrs.

Clinton said as the House Ways The Associated Press TESTIFYING: First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton holds up pamphlet while testifying at health reform hearings on Capitol Hill yesterday. HEALTH CARE continues A6 fits, she said, but 20 to 22 WSDOD fig i. AITf 11 4 s-V" Mi If tf 1 If MORNING REPORT 2 from Rockland on Trade Center jury NEW YORK A jury of 12 people, including two from Rockland, was chosen yesterday to decide if four men participated in the World Trade Center bombing. Included among them was a Manhattan man who had said he thought the defendants were guilty- The eight women and four men also included one woman whose son was murdered 15 years ago and a member of the National Rifle Association. Six alternates still must be chosen before opening arguments begin, possibly tomorrow.

The jurors were chosen out of a pool of more than 150 during eight days of questioning by U.S. District Judge Kevin Duffy, who mixed tough questions about bias and discrimination with softballs like "Are you a good Italian cook?" Details, B3 Liz Holtzman loses comptroller race NEW YORK Liz Holtzman, who began her career as a voice of integrity during Watergate, lost the Democratic nomination for city comptroller yesterday to an obscure Queens assemblyman who challenged her honesty over a campaign loan from a city contractor. Alan Hevesi swept past Holtzman in a runoff election just four yeairafter she had trounced him in a race for the same position. With 53 percent of the vote in, Hevesi captured 91,158 votes or 66 percent; Holtzman won 34 percent with 46,355 votes in a very light turnout. Six months ago, a Hevesi victory was unthinkable.

But the underdog hammered away at Holtzman, whose campaign was sent reeling by a scandal involving a $450,000 campaign loan. Details, B3 Students keep eye on Mideast peace Despite the historic accord forged between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization two weeks ago, local students worry that the long awaited peace is fragile. Gathering to talk at Spring Valley Junior High School, several youngsters expressed fears that animosities built up over more than 30 years would be difficult to leave behind. Details, B4 INSIDE TODAY CMC 'Hi' 1 Mi I 11 11 ,11 Mii-ftHi Staff photosDiane Stevenson The Associated Press MOSCOW President Boris Yeltsin tried to break the nerve of defiant hard-line lawmakers yesterday, surrounding the Russian parliament with thousands of riot police and troops in his biggest show of force yet. Trucks and barbed wire blocked roads leading to the parliament building.

Senior Interior Ministry officials barked through loudspeakers, ordering the lawmakers and their supporters to surrender their weapons and leave the building by today. But top presidential aides later backed off the 24-hour deadline and said Boris Yeltsin had no intention of using force. The ultimatum triggered a protest by about 3,000 hard-line demonstrators, some of whom tried to break through police lines and then march near parliament, beating on cars, throwing rocks at riot police and building a barricade across a main street. Shouting "Shame!" and "Death to the protesters marched past the U.S. Embassy, stopping at an underpass where three young men died during the August 1991 hard-line coup attempt.

Hundreds of police in full riot gear and armed with shields dispersed the crowd, which threw rocks at the troops. At least two people were arrested and several people had minor injuries. Yeltsin has ruled out compro FOR CHERNOBYL: Nine-year-old Julia Mitroshink of the Russian Mission in Riverdale, dressed in American colonial clothing, presents medicine to Pytor Kravchanka, foreign minister of the Republic of Belarus during ceremony at Ramapo High School yesterday. Ramapo High gives Chernobyl's young victims $2M in medical aid NYC cop says he beat up civilians The Associated Press NEW YORK Officer Bernie Cawley was only on the police force a few weeks when he discovered what he did best: beat civilians. The rookie was so good that an approving sergeant nicknamed him "The Mechanic" because "I used to tune people up," Cawley recalled, using department slang.

Cawley tuned up a lot of people some suspects, some not over the next two years in the 46th Precinct in the city's Bronx borough. The department looked the other way, law enforcement officials say. Cawley gave his account of corruption in a videotaped interview that law enforcement officials agreed to show The Associated Press in advance of his first public appearance today before a city panel investigating police corruption. In his taped testimony, Cawley said he regularly stole money and cash from drug dealers. On Monday, Officer Michael Dowd said he was running a drug protection racket.

But in many ways Cawley 's crimes were more brazen, his methods more brutish and the Internal Affairs Division's indifference more glaring than in the Dowd case, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Also, Cawley might be a more credible witness. He is serving a prison sentence and might not benefit from working with the commission. Dowd has entered into a plea bargain and hopes his cooperation will result in a lighter sentence. Although the Internal Affairs Division was aware that Cawley and other officers were allegedly committing crimes, it was only when Cawley was arrested by federal agents in October 1990 for selling stolen guns that it took his case seriously, the officials said.

In testimony before the commission yesterday, an internal affairs investigator who pursued Dowd said COPS continues A6 mise with his opponents, and the deployment of more troops stepped up the war of nerves with the increasingly demoralized and isolated lawmakers who have been holed up in the parliament build ing the Russian White House By Diane Alaimo Staff Writer SPRING VALLEY In a ceremony that left some in the audience crying, Ramapo Senior High School yesterday presented about 2 million in medical supplies for the young victims of the Chernobyl nuclear accident. In accepting the humanitarian aid, Kravchanka, foreign minister of the Republic of Belarus, said the medicine does more than help his people physically. Belarus, still reeling from the after effects of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident, is in need of medical supplies. "Until now we have had a lot of death among children and a high cancer rate," Kravchanka said through a translator. "We are in a dangerous situation.

But we are not desperate because we have hundreds of thousands of friends all over the world, first of all your school. We don't feel desperate and alone," he said. During the past 3Vi years, the Ramapo High community has donated more than $6 million worth of vitamins, cancer medicines, antibiotics and supplies, such as syringes and alcohol swabs to the Children's since Yeltsin dissolved parliament a week ago, on Sept. 21. Many lawmakers were de Ml serting the hard-line cause to work in Yeltsin's administration.

More than 200 deputies are negotiating GOOD WORK: Matilda Raffa Cuomo, wife of Gov. Mario Cuomo, called the Ramapo students 'heroes 'for devoting themselves to the international community. She is shown here chatting with Listy Thomas. To Thomas' right are John Boykin and Gary Rosene. job offers with the government, Movie Clock C4 Obituaries B2 People A2 Television C6 Weather Page Articlts from Clarkstown B2 New City B1 Orangetown B2 Ramapo B2 Spring Valley A1 SparkiH B1 Stony Point B2 West Nyack B1 Sections Rockland Living Money Sports Food Real Estate tab Features Comics C7 Ad index A2 Births B1 Editorial Family C3 The Nation A3 Meetings B2 which set up an employment of fice for lawmakers and their staff.

The standoff appeared to be taking its toll' on the nerves of police as well. "It's about time we start shoot people in the world who care about them can bring a smile to their faces," said Pat DeFrancesco, who until recently worked at Good Samaritan Hospital in Suffern and has RAMAPO continues A14 Hospital in Minsk, Belarus. Added to yesterday's shipment was about 1,200 pounds of toys and stuffed animals. "I have seen the faces of the children when (the supplies) are delivered. Just knowing that there are ing," one officer said, as the police ACTION CLASSIFIED, Section force withdrew into a large court yard.

1 OLANCE A if' Hispanics poised to eclipse blacks as largest minority imy rlzocs Places to pat and drirk RocHland. 7 ft ft 1C7 Some key facts Hispanics, from their present 9 percent of the population to 14 percent in 2010 and 23 percent in 2050. Blacks, from 12 percent today to just over 13 percent in 2010 and 16 percent in 2050. Asian Americans, now 3 percent of the population, to 10 percent at mid-century. I American Indians, from a little below 1 percent to slightly above 1 percent Although their share barely changes, their numbers will double from 2.1 million to 4.3 million.

non-Hispanic whites, the group that has dominated the nation's politics, economy and culture throughout most of its history. Their share of the population will drop from 76 percent now to 68 percent in 2010 and 53 percent in 2050. Their number will increase from 188.6 million to 205.8 million. The explosion in the Hispanic American population is projected to center around a baby boom. Births accounted for about two-thirds of the projected Hispanic increase; immigration accounts for the rest.

mating that the U.S. population will reach 392 million by 2050. That's 52 -percent more than the 258.7 million Americans today. It's also up 9 million from a projection issued just last year. The projection was changed to account for the return of many military people from abroad, updated birth and death statistics, and information showing how new immigration rules have affected the population, said Jennifer Day, a Census Bureau demographer and author of the report.

The growth will affect America's 124 CO HI 63 The Associated Press WASHINGTON Hispanics will eclipse blacks as the nation's largest minority group in the year 2010, the government said yesterday in a report that predicts a considerably different America by the mid-2 1st century. By 2050, the U.S. population will be almost evenly divided between minorities and non-Hispanic whites, the Census Bureau said. The bureau's new projections also forecast faster general population growth than previously expected, esti Staff graphicM. Gradisher.