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Friday, March 29, 1991 DAILY NEWS t- jjt acj? i-5- S. 'V 21 MDlPDMOg ft to By DEAN CHANG 'Wo want to reduce the possibility of TA of ficial Michael O'Connor physical layout Public hearings will be held sometime after the closings, the TA said. These stations will be affected: In Manhattan: Canal St. (A line), S3 felonies; 23d St. (R line), 46 felonies; 28th St.

(6 line), 43 felonies; 50th St. and 8th Ave. (A line), S4 felonies; Grand Central (6 line), 365 felonies; 14th St. (A line), 125 felonies; Fifth Ave. (R Una), 79 felonies; 110th St.

(6 line), 52 felonies; and 168th St. (A line), 54 felonies. In Brooklyn: Hoyt St. (A line), 88 felonies; DeKalb Ave. (R line), 105 felonies; Ralph Ave.

(A line), 53 felonies; and Nostrand Ave. (A line), 96 felonies. Daily News Staff Writer Responding to last week's rush-hour rape in a midtown subway corridor, the Transit Authority will shut 15 of the most dangerous passageways within a week. The emergency closings ordered yesterday which transit police have been recommending since last year will affect nine stations in Manhattan, four in Brooklyn and one each in Queens and the Bronx. "Most of these corridors are in remote parts of the stations, out of view and not move was overdue.

"It's too bad this had to happen after an unfortunate incident," said Beverly Do-linsky, executive director of the Permanent Citizen's Advisory Committee to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. "I think people would rather walk above ground and be inconvenienced if it means they'll be more secure," she said. Transit police spokesman Al O'Leary said 365 felonies were committed in the most dangerous tunnel, a corridor in Grand Central Station, since January 1990. The Woodhaven Blvd. stop in Queens was the safest on the list, with 30 reported felonies.

O'Leary said the corridors were not chosen solely on crime volume; other factors included lighting, traffic and heavily trafficked," said Michael O'Connor, chief of the TA's field services bureau. "We want to reduce the possibility of crime in these ar-eas." On March 20, a woman was raped in a tunner connecting the 34th and 42d St. stations on the Sixth Ave. line. The eight-block passage the longest in the system was closed a day after the rape.

Subway advocates said the (R la Queens: Woodhaven Blvd. line), 30 felonies. In the Bronx: Fordham Road Hue), 79 felonies. tars OTg MM rap By DICK SHERIDAN Daily News Staff Writer The New York Civil Liberties Union is charging that a pregnant 16-year-old student was handcuffed, arrested and held in police custody for 19 hours for refusing to submit to a metal detector search when she tried to go to class. Sarita Chance, who is 6V2 months pregnant and a student at the High School of Graphic Communications Arts in Manhattan, is charged with five misdemeanor counts in the incident, which took place at 8:30 a.m.

March 21. She must appear April 17 to answer two counts of assault and one each of resisting arrest, criminal trespass and harassment Donna Lieberman, director of the NYCLU's Reproductive Rights Project, who is representing Chance, said yesterday that the teenager refused the metal detector because she feared it would endanger her fetus. Instead, the teen offered to undergo a pat-down by a female security officer, but If fx Y- Ni inn school officials refused to allow it before having the student "forcibly removed" from the school, the lawyer said. Lieberman said Chance was arrested after she sought help from a school counselor instead of immediately leaving the school. After her arrest, Chance said, a cop "roughed me up, yanked me out of a chair and put me in a cell" for two hours at the local precinct She remained in custody at the Midtown North precinct and Manhattan Central Booking until about 4 a.m.

March 22, Lieberman said. Board of Education spokesman Frank Sobrino denied that Chance was forced to submit to the metal detector. "She was offered the option of undergoing a personal search," Sobrino said. "She refused and was asked to leave the building." While being escorted from the school, Sobrino said, the teenager ran from officers and only then was taken into custody. "She was arrested," he said.

"It's a police matter." Sobrino also denied that the hand-held metal detectors posed any threat "They have been certified as not representing any risk to pregnant women or to pacemakers," he said. Graphic Communications Arts is one of 15 city high schools in a program that requires students selected at random to undergo periodic metal-detector testing. The Board of Education implemented the program in November 1988 to combat a rise in the number of weapon-wielding students in city Rocca DAILY NEWS John PREGNANT high-school student Sarita Chance faces five misdemeanor counts IPOBM MCss raftGn KLy aft noinipsiss By ALBERT DAVILA and DICK SHERIDAN ing appoint a panel to resolve outstanding issues, as provided by the city's Collective Bargaining Mayoral spokesman Lee Jones declined to say how far apart the two sides were. "Obviously," he said, "it was far enough apart for the PBA to declare an impasse." The panel will review the matters under contention and make recom- Caruso, blaming the end of negotiations on "gross incompetence and lack of guts on the part of the city." The union boss said, "We offered substantial productivity savings which would have produced millions of dollars, but the city rejected our proposals out of hand." Mayor Dinkins acknowledged the end of negotiations in a statement late 3 Daily News Staff Writers Calling the Dinkins administration incompetent and lacking in guts, the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association yesterday declared contract talks with the city dead and asked that an impasse panel be called in to breathe new life into negotiations. "We wanted a fair and equitable settlement," said PBA President Phil 4 'yesterday; i ft 1 fl whiifclf either party n)ay i Dinkins said JPBA had askedj MapgeaJpj tjie collective bargaining of-' that the Office of Collective Bargain- 1flce.

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