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State 5 A Ithaca Journal Monday, September 7, 1992 Liz and Gerry battle again i BRIEFLY "KjfKJK oe lm mj mjt mm. mi. mm hwjmmum warmm amuiai it 7 NEW YORK (AP) U.S. Senate hopeful Liz Holtzman demanded Geraldine Ferraro donate $340,000 to child sex abuse victims Saturday as she again hammered the front runner for not promptly evicting a child pornographer. Holtzman, the city comptroller, made the request in a news conference at a Greenwich Village playground as pre-school-aged children played on the swings and in the sandbox next to her.

A Ferraro spokesman called the demand "a desperate and shameless campaign ploy." Ferraro promised in 1984 not to renew the expiring lease of Star Distributors an alleged mob-connected pornographer renting space in a building half-owned by her husband and managed by a family company, of which she was an officer. The tenant was not evicted until nearly three years later. "I am calling on (Ferraro) today to take the money she earned from a child pornographer's tenancy and to donate it to children that have been the victims of sexual abuse," she said. Holtzman said the $340,000 represents the amount of rent collected from the pornographer. She has said the sluggish eviction of such an undesirable tenant raises important questions about Ferraro's judgment and ethics.

"She has not apologized for what she has done and has not acknowledged anything wrong with what she did," said Holtzman, who is running third in the race for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate. Ferraro has responded that legaf proceedings to remove the tenant took time. Her spokesman, Frank Wilkinson, on Saturday attacked Holtzman's latest barrage as cynical. "By dragging children in front of the cameras for one of her daijy press conferences, Comptroller Holtzman in not looking to help anyone but herself," he said.

"Gerry Ferraro is interested in fighting for children's real needs education, health care and jobs, not using them as props for a cynical, political press conference," he said. State Attorney General Robert Abrams and civil rights activist AI Sharpton are also in the Sept. 15 primary. The winner will challenge Republican U.S. Sen.

Alfonse D'Amato. A recent statewide independent poll, taken by the John Zogby Group of Utica, had Ferraro the choice of 31 percent of the Democrats surveyed with Abrams at 18 percent; Holtzman at 12 percent; Sharpton at 10 percent; and more than 29 percent undecided. The margin of error was 5 points. The Associated Press IN SIGHT: Irvington police officer Dennis Chillemi nears his goal in a 15-mile charity swim in the Hudson River from the Tappan Zee Bridge to the George Washington Bridge. Officer swims Hudson for charity Old couple die in crash HANCOCK (AP) Excessive speed was being blamed for an accident that killed an elderly New Jersey couple on their way to a summer camp near here for the Labor Day weekend, authorities said.

The accident happened around 3 p.m. Friday on Route 97 in the town of Hancock, 95 miles southeast of Albany on the Pennsylvania border. The victims were identified as Edgeworth Greene 86, and his wife, Margaret, 82, of Pompton Plains, N.J., said Dispatcher Stephen Barlow of the state police at Kirkwood. The car was north on Route 97, traveling between roughly 65 and 70 mph, Barlow said. It ran off the right side of the road, hit a dirt and grass embankment, continued north and hit a boulder, he said.

The couple's Shetland sheepdog also died in the accident, police said. Three hurl in buggy mishap NEW YORK (AP) A quaint horse and buggy ride down Broadway turned harrowing for three passengers when the horse pulling the handsome cab they were in was spooked and bolted, police said. According to Sgt. Mary Wrensen, a police spokeswoman, the cab jumped a curb near 45th Street in Times Square Friday and flipped onto its side. The three passengers were only slightly injured in the 9:25 p.m.

accident. They were treated and released at St. Clare's Hospital, Wrensen said. The horse was corraled and taken back to his stable, she said. Five arrests at rally to protest curfew NEW YORK (AP) Police officers outnumbered demonstrators at a midnight rally to protest a curfew in Tompkins Square Park.

Five people were arrested after Police Department Deputy Chief Philip Sheridan led 125 officers into the park in Manhattan's East Village at midnight Saturday. The officers marched through the park, herding about 100 protestors out, before blocking the entrances. The crowd outside the park grew Holtzman proposes federal pension investment plan to boost economy TARRYTOWN (AP) An Irvington police officer swam 16 miles in the chilly waters of the Hudson River Sunday to raise money for a children's hospital. Dennis Chillemi, 32, needed about six hours to swim from the Tappan Zee Bridge in Tarrytown to the George Washington Bridge. By the time he reached Manhattan, he was so exhausted that he was pulled from the water and given oxygen.

"1 was fortunate the bridge wasn't another 20 feet away," he said. "I wouldn't have made it." The long-distance charity swim NEW YORK (AP) City Comptroller Liz Holtzman proposed Sunday a federal pension investment plan, similar to one in use in New York, to bolster the national economy. Holtzman, seeking the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in the Sept. 15 primary, said in a statement that such a plan would be "a win-win situation," giving pensioners a fair return, families and small businesses money to invest, and the state a revitalized economy.

"We can revive the industrial base of this economy. We can create jobs. We're doing that right now in Summer stiffs New York with a was the second for Chillemi, who is raising money for the Blythedale Children's Hospital in Valhalla so it can buy ventilators to help patients with chronic respiratory disease. So far, he said he has raised about $15,000. Sunday's swim was more than twice the distance of one Chillemi made last week back and fourth across the Hudson River.

The officer started at 7:30 a.m., and reached the George Washington a little after 1:30 p.m., according to his father, Gene Chillemi. Skip Storch, a world class long were almost no spectators on the lawn outside because of rain, Tiknis said. One night, while the philharmonic performed Handel's "Messiah" and the baritone had just sung "the trumpet shall sound and the dead shall rise," thunder clapped, flashed and a downpour began outside, Tiknis said. The conductor looked over his shoulder in fear, he said. "The only thing that worked well all summer was that it seemed to lightning on cue" during Handel's "Messiah" he said.

"Perhaps God was telling us not to do any more outdoor concerts." Elsewhere in New York, the summer wasn't quite so dramatic, but it was just as wet. In Mumford, 40 miles east of Buffalo, the weather turned soggy just as the Genesee Country Museum was opening in May. The museum, a village of 19th-century-era buildings, averages about 130,000 visitors a summer, said education director Marguerite Sharp. She said she had no figures yet for this summer, but that attendance was down largely because of The Associated Press It's Labor Day, and it's been somewhat sunny and warm, but mostly cloudy, rainy and cool. In fact, the holiday weather hasn't been too different from any other summer weekend this year.

An autumnal chill here, a torrential downpour there, and the warm season is ending with some people in New York muttering, "I must have missed summer that time I blinked back in late June." Beaches were usually bare of bathers, farms were turned to mud-holes, boats sat idle at the docks and picnickers went to McDonald's. "It was the summer from hell in Buffalo," said Michael Tiknis, director of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. The symphony canceled the final week of its season last month because of a deficit largely caused by poor attendance at the orchestra's summer home at Artpark, an outdoor concert shell in Lewiston north of Buffalo. Artpark's indoor seating was jammed this summer for performances by Itzhak Perlman, Natalie Cole and Doc Severinsen, but there Lee T7Vt. TX A 0 to distance swimmer from Rockland County who volunteered to coach Chillemi along the way, said he was impressed with the effort.

"He really showed a lot of guts," Storch said. "He believed in what he was doing and that was why he made it." Chillemi, an avid runner, said he has immediate plans to get back in the river. "I still don't consider myself a swimmer," he said. Donations: Blythedale Children's Hospital, Bradhursl Avenue, Valhalla, New York, 10595. cold, hard rain the weather.

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The city spent $2 million to re-' furbish the park that reopened on August 25th. The reopening came one year after several clashes be-; tween police and defenders of a shantytown made up of homeless people. Trio commits crime spree NEW YORK (AP) A trio of muggers beat and robbed at least four men and assaulted three others early Sunday during a I Greenwich Village crime spree, Port Authority police said. "We found people with bloody noses and bloody eyes" on Christopher Street from Seventh Avenue South to the Hudson River piers, said Port Authority Police Officer Thomas McHale. But only the youngest victim, a 14-year-old boy, came forward to press charges.

Police were appealing to the other victims, described as men ranging in age from 50 to their 20's, to report the crimes. Police said the suspects did not offer a motive. "They would just walk up and pummel people," said McHale. After beating their victims, the trio robbed them of various belongings, ranging from a wallet filled with cash to a beer. Man pleads guilty to slayings CATSKILL (AP) A 34-year-old man will be sentenced next month after he admitted to killing an elderly Catskill couple last year.

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