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uraro B6 The Journal-News, Rockland County, N.Y. Wednesday, November 1, 1989 aft fthe Taj uaina to Recently, a Fax Your Max order arrived at 2 a.m. from Helsinki. Apparently, a tourist carried the order form home to Finland and, as a joke, faxed the intercontinental order: four Big Macs, two Quarter Pounders, fries, drinks and an Oriental chicken salad. Happy but not yet content, Madalone dreams of evening waiter service; private dining rooms, where executives can munch Egg McMuffins during breakfast conferences; and an adjacent boutique selling pins, shirts and golf umbrellas with the McDonald's logo.

"I'm having the time of my life," he says. tant," said a pinstripe-clad Joseph D'Angelo of Brooklyn, vice president of an international freight forwarding firm. "I've never seen a McDonald's so keen on service." It's even service with a personal touch. "We seated two people together upstairs; now, they're dating and may get married," Ms. Jones noted proudly.

Madalone says the restaurant between the World Trade Center and South Street Seaport is becoming a tourist attraction itself, complete with picture postcards that spread the word when visitors mail them to the folks back home. crew whisk away used bags and empty cups, sometimes before the customers have left the table. Espresso, cappucino and pastries are offered at afternoon tea-time. But otherwise, it's the standard McFare, served at the regular McDonald's metropolitan prices. "This is a beautiful place the service, the cleanliness, the decor," said Estelle Jasko, 80, of Washington Township, N.J.

"I've always had the impression that McDonald's was a run-down place; I was shocked." "The ambience is very impor said, 'I want to build the Taj said owner Frank Madalone, who opened this, his eighth New York City McDonald's, last December. It may not be the Taj, but it is like no other McDonald's. It is located on Broadway, 3Vi blocks north of Wall Street. The outside is distinguished by two massive windows, bordered with black marble trim, the Golden Arches painted discreetly on each one. Inside, an atrium is graced by two-story-tall mirrors; sleek, Art Moderne style chandeliers; oodles of plants; and just a hint of violet neon to match the violet suits worn by the smiling hostesses.

"It's fun watching the customers' faces when they walk in the door," said Customer Service Manager Judy Jones. "They stop, look around and wonder if they're in the right place." Potted palms grace the sleek chrome counter, next to plastic bins of catsup and drinking straws. Each table has a vase with a red carnation. Delivery men in navy blue trench coats and chauffeur-style caps heft red, insulated bags, stuffed with "Fax Your Max" orders. The hostesses and cleaning By Kiley Armstrong The Associated Press NEW YORK The music is soothing, the service sublime, the setting splendiferous.

The cuisine, supped at marble tables, is nestled in orange plastic foam. Welcome to the Wall Street area McDonald's where the humble Big Mac is served in a veritable temple, featuring a uniformed doorman, a pianist performing on a black baby grand, and even an electronic ticker for brokers binge-ing on junk bonds and junk food. "I went to the architects and Giuliani says votes shouldn't be based on candidates' race it 2 7V) All things weird and wonderful on parade By Joseph Neff The Associated Press NEW YORK Tammy Faye Bakker in blue sequins, seven different Queens of the Fairies, a half-dozen Batmans, and the Friends of Japan as six-foot foam rubber sushi. It's Halloween in New York. The Sixteenth Annual Village Halloween Parade sloshed its way through lower Manhattan yesterday evening.

The theme: Save the Rainforest. The weather: a constant drizzle. The green theme dominated the head of the parade: 50 dancing leaves and dozens of tropical flowers and animals cavorted up Sixth Avenue to the tune of a Dixieland band. But not all was fun and games. To enact the damage wreaked upon the world's rainforests, a dozen grim reapers with scythes repeatedly mowed down the tropical marchers dressed as frogs, monkeys, and birds, who crumpled on the wet street.

According to the Rainforest Alliance, an area of tropical forests twice the size of New York state is destroyed each year. Eileen Stasny was one of a dozen paraders carrying giant Medusa heads, the snake-haired creature from Greek mythology who turned onlookers to stone and forest to desert, the Bread and Puppets Theater Company suggested. "All the lucky ones got to be snakes," Stasny complained. Environmentally correct capitalists were in full force a dozen bags of natural Kentucky Popcorn marched behind what looked like a big black and white Chinese dragon, but was really a 1 4 3 Meanwhile, the city Campaign Finance Board voted to deny the Dinkins campaign $95,142 in public funds, citing inadequate accounting of contributions, until the campaign's record-keeping improved. "The Dinkins financial records are not at present organized sufficiently to allow an expeditious evaluation of matching funds," the board's executive director, Nicole A.

Gordon, told The New York Times. Dinkins' private finances, including his failure to pay income taxes on time for four years and questions about the value of stock he transferred to his son, have been an issue in the campaign. The public money withheld amounts to 37 percent of the $257,143 Dinkins claimed in city matching funds for the three weeks ended Oct. 3, the Times said. The figure represents a 12 percent "adjustment" based on the error rate of public funds claimed in previous Dinkins financial reports and a 25 percent "deferred payment" because of the overall inadequate information, mainly 11,000 missing identifications in the Dinkins reports since the start of the year.

A Dinkins spokesman did not immediately return a call seeking comment. Giuliani had a $1,024 adjustment, or less than 1 percent of the $170,775 he claimed for public matching funds for the same period, the Times said. Speaking to journalism students yesterday at Columbia University, Giuliani said he recognized the special nature of the contest with Dinkins. "If I am elected mayor, I will have as great a responsibility as my opponent if not greater to bring our city together," Giuliani said. He promised to "work doubly hard" as mayor to ease the frustration felt by Dinkins supporters, including asking some to serve in his administration.

During a brief lunchtime tour of the soup kitchen at the Church of the Holy Apostle in Manhattan's Chelsea section, Giuliani was jeered by many of those standing in line. 1 1 1 By Paul Geitner The Associated Press NEW YORK Republican Rudolph Giuliani criticized those who he says urge mayoral victory for Democrat David Dinkins as a symbol for the black community or as a way to keep racial tensions from worsening. Declining to specify who raised the suggestion, Giuliani said he was not accusing Dinkins, who would become the city's first black mayor, of appealing for support in that way. "I've read it and I've heard it," Giuliani said. "What I am doing is confronting that and saying that that is not an appropriate or proper rationale for voting for either one of us." "Racial relations is one issue among many that the next mayor has to deal with, and do so vigorously," Giuliani said.

But "the suggestion that the contest should center on race relations is not fair to the voters," he said. "It's divisive. It panders to fear." Giuliani, trailing in the polls a week before the election, also said yesterday it "would be unworthy of an American" to base one's vote solely on any candidate's race. Dinkins, who won the Democratic nomination with almost a third of the white vote, said through a spokeswoman: "I ask that nobody vote for me because I am an African-American, but I ask as well that nobody vote against me because I am an African-American." Later, Dinkins told a fund-raiser hosted by Mayor Edward I. Koch and Gov.

Mario M. Cuomo: "I refuse to believe that I or anyone of any race or any background lost the chance to be the mayor of this city on the day we were born." He criticized the Giuliani campaign for slinging mud and seeking "to gain votes by turning group against group." Dinkins picked up endorsements yesterday from more than 80 prominent members of Jewish philanthropic and community groups, as well as from New York Newsday and The Village Voice. The Associated Press Halloween makes for strange bedfellows, as this werewolf and Lucille Ball impersonator can attest. The unlikely duo appeared in yesterday's annual (Greenwich) Village Halloween Parade. A Betty Boop, who could double for nose tackle except for the red, white and blue rhinestone bikini, flaunted a Boop for Mayor signboard.

And though New York's hotly contested mayoral election is a mere week away, only one other candidate braved the rain: a man sporting a hockey mask who lugged a "Jason for Mayor" placard. Asked what type of policies he would pursue if elected, the Friday the 13th star growled, "Actions speak louder than words." The Lesbian and Gay Big Apple Corps marching band serenaded onlookers with "La Bam- ba." Bobbing 30 feet behind them was a huge "Jesus Rose from the Dead" banner, carried by members of the Neighborhood Church blasting funk music from a loudspeaker. "This is our counterprotest to Satan's high sabbath," said parishioner Jim Strauchman, who seemed to be enjoying the Halloween mood anyway. And there was even some old-fashioned scary stuff. Ralph Serpe lugged a 12-foot tinfoil and soggy cardboard DC-10 model.

"Why not?" he said of his model, melting in the evening rain. "It's the scariest thing I could think of." 30-foot cow from Ben and Jerry's ice cream, mooing "Save the Family Farm." More traditional themes also held sway. Cross-dressers were in abundance a muscular Maggie Thatcher stumbled along with a dove tangled in her locks, while "Mz. New Joizzy" groused about the rain mussing his, or her, hairdo. "I'm still the No.

1 beauty queen in the state call me Peppermints," he said, ever a trooper. Tammy Faye Bakker slinked along in a form-hugging evening dress, a 5 o'clock shadow barely discernible underneath the trademark pancake makeup. Youths rampage in three boroughs IT Deftost your husband. pushing people around, Berry said. The store manager tried to intervene and was held at bay by one suspect armed with a knife.

The group stole clothing and fled; 10 were arrested for robbery. At 3:30 p.m. on Manhattan's Upper East Side, a group of at least 13 males began menacing people on the street at 86th Street and Third Avenue, said another police spokesman, Sgt. Raymond O'Donnell. After terrorizing at least six people, the group continued south to 78th Street and Third Avenue, entered a restaurant, kicked over a table and assaulted a waiter, O'Donnell said.

Thirteen youths were arrested. Three people were treated at Lenox Hill Hospital for minor injuries, Berry said. Meanwhile, a gang of 10 to 20 youths robbed at least nine individuals or businesses near West 38th Street and Sixth Avenue, slashing one person, Berry said. The group approached people, knocked them to the ground and forcibly removed property. Nine were arrested; six were aged 16 or over and three were juveniles.

At 4:06 p.m. in East Harlem, 50 to 100 unruly youths approached a McDonald's restaurant at East 117th Street and Third Avenue, O'Donnell said. Restaurant workers saw the group approaching and locked the doors, but the youths smashed the glass front door before fleeing. No arrests were made. At 4:40 p.m.

in the Bronx, a large group of youths ages 16-19 ransacked a dry cleaning store at 290 E. 166th turning over a counter and hitting the owner in the head with an ashtray, Berry said. Nothing was taken; nine were arrested for attempted robbery. And at about 4:45 p.m. in Brooklyn, a large disorderly group ran back and forth along Fulton Street at Bond Street wearing Halloween masks, and ran through the and McCrory's department stores, Berry said.

Twenty-one people were arrested: 20 for disorderly conduct (of whom five were juveniles) and one for possession of brass knuckles. The Associated Press NEW YORK Scores of youths rampaged through city neighborhoods in three boroughs yesterday, robbing people on the streets and in businesses and leaving at least five people injured, police said. Sixty-seven people were arrested and charged for taking part in the terror sprees, which began at 10:30 a.m., police said. The rampages were unrelated and apparently had some connection to Halloween, said a police spokesman, Sgt. Pete Berry.

In chronological order: At 10:30 a.m. in the Bronx, a group of youths ages 16-19 broke the window of a pawnbrokers' shop at Tiebout Avenue and East Fordham Road and stole gold and silver coins, said Berry. Five youths were arrested for robbery. At 1:30 p.m. in the same precinct, a large group of youths ages 14-17 entered the Impulse clothing store at 7 East Burnside Ave.

and began lip1 You know you didn't mean those things you said this morning. And neither did he. Jo break the ice, use the phone. Charges against 1 in park rape dropped (2) NewYorkTelephone A NYNEX Company 22 arrest as required by law, acting state Supreme Court Justice Carol Berkman granted a defense motion to dismiss the charges. Similar action is expected soon in the case of Michael Briscoe, 17.

His lawyer, Alton Maddox, said a complaint charging Briscoe with rape was filed more than six months ago but the youth has been indicted only in attacks on two male runners. Maddox said he will move soon to have the rape charge dismissed. Thomas' lawyer, Amelio Marino, said yesterday there was no deal with the prosecution for his client to testify, "but I don't foreclose that he will be called. He could testify in the future." Two other teens are already expected to appear as prosecution witnesses. Thomas' arrest followed the April 19 rape and near-fatal beating of the investment banker while she was out for her nightly jog along the East 102nd Street transverse in the park.

According to Marino, his client remains subject to a subpoena at this point. 1989 New York Telephone The Associated Press NEW YORK Rape, riot and robbery charges were dropped yesterday against one of the first youths charged in the Central Park "wilding" rampage, prompting speculation among defense lawyers that the youth may become a prosecution witness. Clarence Thomas, 14, was arrested April 22 in connection with the brutal attack on a 28-year-old jogger. But because he was not indicted within six months of his April i.