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Daily News from New York, New York • 22

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221. a s1t nv: 1 1 1 n- x-: k-. i VI 0 yv By MARCIA KRAMER Two women's wigs, a pair of pantyhose, a teddy bear, two guns and several bullets were among the items found by FBI agents in the Brooklyn apartment of Fireman Mel Patrick Lynchj one of the two alleged kidnapers of Samuel Bronfman, heir to a billion-dollar liquor fortune. I 1 1 Ktl! News ptoto by Kitl Torrl David Wells (left), chief counsel of Federal Highway Adm'mistra-. tion, as he presided at meeting in Federal Plaza yesterday.

forms, personal effects, maps of the Eastern Seaboard, an unpaid Montreal parking ticket and an empty money packet from the Manufacturers Hanover Trust Also, two pint bottles blackberry brandy. Agents who searched the apartment said they found six bullets in the living room one under a couch cushion, the rest on the floor. They also found a loaded six-shot handgun on top of a desk in the bedroom and a auto, matic in a box in the kitchen closet, they said. On a coffee table in the living room lay a green-covered checkbook with the name Samuel Bronfman 2d on it, it was said. A copper bracelet, pencils, scissors, magic markers and adhesive tape also were on the table.

Among the more colorful items in the living room were a NEWS BRIEFS nn inn i nn Sam's checkbook and rolls of adhesive tape like that used to bind, gag and blindfold him also were found in Lyneh's three-room apartment at 601 19th Brooklyn, according to inventory lists filed by the FBI yesterday in Brooklyn- Federal Court. A source close to the investigation said the "wigs and. pantyhose apparently were used ''for the purpose of female imperson- ation." He' said also that three photos of an unidentified man fin unusual poses and attire" were "found in Lyneh's bedroom dresser. The hand-written lists contained brief descriptions of more than 100 items confiscated by federal agents' after Bronfman was found in Lyneh's littered pad on Sunday, Aug." 17. The agents searched the fireman's 1971 Oldsmobile as well as his apartment.

Lynch and the other suspect, Dominic Byrne, the owner of a limousine rental service, are being held in $700,000 total bail in federal charges of using the U.S. mails to send a kidnap ransom letter. The Westchester County district attorney's office expects to obtain indictments charging them with kidnaping the 21-year-old heir from his mother's estate at Purchase. District Attorney Carl Vergari said yesterday, "The evidence we will present to the grand jury starting next week, con- Flown toe to (Face a Pope Ebp By PAUL MESKIL A 53-year-old Frenchman, described by federal authorities as one of the world's foremost dope dealers, was flowrn here from Africa yesterday and immediately arrested (Dii A -toll Mikes Demands that the Federal Highway Administration hold a public hearing into the 50 increase imposed in May on Port Authority bridges and tunnels were made yesterday by legislators and representatives of about 20 consumer groups. -The demands were made at an informal conference at 26 Federal Plaza called by the highway agency totry to resolve any complaints about the toll hikes without having to call public hearings.

But RP- Peter Peyser (R-Bronx) called the meeting a "sham." "The Port Authority has to answer some hard questionsand we should have a full-scale public hearing," he said. "The FHA has all the facts and there aren't going to be any new facts today." Matthew Feldnian, Democratic majority leader of the New Jersey State Senate, said that a public hearing was needed to "produce the facts and figures that are impossible for us to obtain." But Robert Rickles, executive director of the. Institute for Public Transportation, criticized the legislators for not passing legislation to mandate hearings. Stewart Ain ITour Bus Driver May Be Mr. Wonderful The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, in an effort to create better feelings between bus drivers and their often cramped passengers, has initiated a contest to select a monthly most-courteous driver.

The winner, after tabulation of bus riders' votes, will be designated "Big Wheel" and receive several token prizes including a black and yellow lapel button bearing the legend: "Courtesy Powers the MTA." Edward Kirkman Wife on Home Phone Foils Holdup at Store A Brooklyn grocer's quick-witted wife, who was talking on the phone with her husband early yesterday when an armed robber tried to hold him up, quickly hung up and called police. The man was arrested as he sought to flee with $147 at about 1 a.m. Police said Mrs. Frances Galante, -49, was talking to her husband, Anthony, 52, who was at the family-owned Sterling Supermarket, 131 Sixth in Park Slope, when she heard the gunman order her husband not to move. Alerted by her call, Police Officers Frank Azzato and Mike Vitale sped to the scene and arrested James Ellis, 40, of 450 E.

34th St. They said they disarmed him of a fully loaded revolver. Protest on Fare Increase Is Set The Coalition to Fight the Fare Hike, an organization of community, labor, minority and other groups, announced yesterday that it had scheduled a demonstration for 4:30 p.m. Thursday to protest the planned increase in transit fares. The demonstration will be staged outside offices of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority at Broadway and 53d St.

Robert Carroll Javits Sees China Seeking Leadership Sen. Jacob K. Javits, who recently returned from a visit with a number of other members of Congress to mainland China, said yesterday that he expects China, the world's most populous nation, to try to become the leader of the Third World. While warning that the U.S. must not assume that China's difficulties with Russia will continue indefinitely, Javits said he expects the Peking government to be "less bellicose" and not likely to be "prowling for trouble" in the near future.

Speaking on the NBC-TV show, "Today," the senator said China would more likely try to be "a strident voice" in its efforts to lead the nations of ths so-called Third World. $1,400 in Boy Scout Gear Stolen in B'klyn Seven Boy Scouts from the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn received a rude welcome home yesterday when they returned from an upstate scout camp and found their equipment had been stolen. Their assistant scoutmaster, Joe Spano, left the equipment in his station wagon outside his home at 248 13th Brooklyn, Saturday night and discovered yesterday moraine' that someone on federal narcotics charges. The suspect, Dominique (Domingo) Orsini, allegedly headed a major narcotics ring that smuggled $10 million worth of heroin and cocaine into the United States over two and a half years. Federal sources said that Orsini had been involved in the French Connection case that made worldwide headlines in 192.

Orsini has lived for 20 years made worldwide headlines in in Cordoba, Argentina, where he reportedly heads a branch of the Unione Corse (Corscian Union), also known as the French Mafia. He had been arrested Aug. 7 by local police in Dakar, Senegal, when he arrived on a flight from Buenos Aires en route to Nice, plastic-wrapped red-and-white teddy bear and a pair of orange rubber gloves. A paper bag on the floor contained cotton and adhesive" tape. The FBI confis cated several photographs, in cluding the three photos of the unidentified man.

The wigs and pantyhose were found in a dresser drawer. Also in the bedroom were several items described as ous Irish Materials," including pamphlets. A bumper sticker saying "Unite Ireland" was found in the Irish-born Lyneh's car. Customs and Immigration without the usual formalities, and was taken "out a side door to a parking area where three federal cars were waiting. The feds took him to Brooklyn Federal Court, where Judge Henry Bramwell ordered him held in $2.5 million bail.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Peter Schlam told the court that high bail was necessary to prevent Orsini from fleeing the country- He was among 28 suspected dope smugglers indicted previously in a narcotics conspiracy case. The others are still at large. If convicted, Orsini could get a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, and $20,000 fine. Sporting events, carnival rides, junior Olympics, games' and" cotton candy will be featured.

Tying the event together will be a bikeway along" the northbound lanes of Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd. The bikeway will link with the Central Park bikeway at 110th St. and vehicular traffic along the bikeway will be halted for the day. Manhattan Borough President Percy Sutton will kick off the festivities at 11 a.m.

with a ceremony marking the renaming north of Central Carl Vergari DA silent on 3d suspect cerns only the two suspectswho are in custody." He refused to make any other comment about reports that there may have been a third kidnaper, possibly a woman. The inventory lists disclosed that 10 two-foot lengths of cord, each tied into a loop or noose at the end, were found in the car and apartment. The car contained numerous receipts, bills, auto insurance France. The arrest was made at the request of the U.S. State Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration.

As American agents and Senegal police were preparing to put him aboard a flight to New York, he reportedly tried to commit suicide by slashing his right wrist with a concealed blade. But he suffered only a superficial wound. A State Department official and two Drug Enforcement Administration agents reportedly accompanied him on a Fan American flight from Dakar to Kennedy Airport. As soon as the jetliner landed at 10:30 a.m., heavily armed federal agents surrounded the exit ramps. Orsini was whisked through as the training ground for many of the nation's top professional athletes and fashion designers.

Basketball stars who got their start in the playgrounds of Harlem will take part in basketball clinics. There will also be tennis clinics and exhibitions and fashion shows from a new generation of designers. A swimming competition will be held at the Bathhouse, the city's largest indoor pool at 135th St. and Fifth Ave. At 155th St.

and Festival Aims at a Harlem Rebirth By JOHN LEWIS Harlem, often proclaimed as the black capital of the world, will be honored Sat-, urday with the first Harlem Day festival. It will feature live entertainment, music, dancing, a flea market, carnival rides and athletic competition, it was announed oay. The day-long program, which organizers hope will become an annual event leading to a rebirth cf the community, will be held at four sites, each having a theme dealing with aspects of Harlem. All of 125th St. from Lenox Ave.

to Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd. will be closed to traffic to make way for an "international carnival" with a bazaar, business exposition, flea market and theater performances. At 135th the block between Lenox and Fifth Ave. will i had forced the door.

and stolen Jhe, equipment. The loss amounted rt.Vj,T?Vor 0L seven ocquts, all either 11 or 12 years of agf. tjjvrmmr. Ut tur of Harlem its youth Jr..

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