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THE BOSTON GLOBE TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1991 24 iatown mms struggle Broadcast Notes 'Knots Landing' sweeps soap awards of leadership as factor in instability Supporting actor: Jordan Clarke, "Guiding Light" Supporting actress: Julia Barr, "All My Children." Villain: Kin Shriner, "General Hospital." Villainess: Lynn Herring, "General Hospital." Hero: Doug Davidson, "The Young and the Restless." Heroine: Cady McClain, "All My Children." Male newcomen Michael Watson, "General Hospital." Female newcomer: Kimberley Simms, "Guiding Light" Storyline: "Robin, Anna and the Alien," "General Hospital." Limited-run stan Gerald Anthony, "One Life to Live." Super couple: Matthew Ashford and Melissa reman, "Days of Our Lives." Actress: Michele Lee, "Knots Landing." Supporting acton Larry Riley, "Knots Landing." Supporting actress: Lynne Moody, "Knots Landing." Villain: Sam Behrens, "Knots Landing." Villainess: Michelle Phillips, "Knots Landing." Hero: Kevin Dobson, "Knots Landing." Heroine: Nicollette Sheridan, "Knots Landing." Storyline: "Paige and Tom's Love Story," "Knots Landing." Daytime winners were: Serial: "Days of Our Lives." Acton A. Martinez, "Santa Barbara." Actress: Finola Hughes, "General Hospital." ton led to injuries to the victims, and considerable heat from the police. The association between Tse and Truong, a leading Dai Lo loosely translated, it means "elder brother" for the Ping On, was a profitable one. But as one investigator recalls, "Stephen decided he had to go. Discipline was that important." Such discipline, and the fact that the triads almost exclusively victimize people within their own insular community, has made successful law enforcement incursions into Asian organized crime rare and particularly difficult.

Creating even more problems for law enforcement is that gang turf -who controls what and for whom is not as clearly defined in Boston as it is in cities with much larger Chinatowns, such as New York, San Francisco and Chicago. Even gang names are not held to here as fiercely as they are in other cities. For example, say investigators, the former Viet Ching members who have come here from Los Angeles do not use the gang name here, even though they have the multiple tatoos and pierced nipples that signify membership in that gang. In recent months, Goldman has watched as Boston's Chinatown has attracted outsiders eager to exploit the unsophisticated, rudderless state of organized crime here. Six weeks ago, Goldman, who during the mid-1980s investigated organized crime in New York's Chinatown, stopped and questioned a New York triad member who was suspected of trying to set up a heroin business here.

Two days after leaving Boston, the gangster was arrested in Queens with a load of heroin, said Goldman. "His coming up here could tell CNNI expanding to Asia, Latin America Police see absence (pHINATOWN Continued from Page 21 namese men born of Chinese parents, have been turning up in Boston witi increasing regularity, taking the "protection racket and drug dealing jobs formerly held by Ping On mehbers. "Usually, Chinese organized crime elements maintain their own senjse of order, but it's almost like Boston is lawless," says James Gold-ma, a supervisory special agent for the US Immigration and Naturalization Service, who is a specialist in Asijan organized crime. Vietnamese have been com-ingj and going and doing as they please. What you have now is like a cotfage industry.

You have a potr pourri of Asian criminals who lack any leadership. And whenever you have a situation like that, the potential for bloodshed is serious." jWhile authorities have not determined the circumstances that led to Saturday's massacre, those who monitor Asian organized crime said the killings were the type of transgression that would most likely not have occurred if the Chinatown underworld was not in the midst of an internecine power vacuum. Discipline, once the hallmark of the triads, or secret societies, that control the rackets in Chinatown, has disappeared along with Stephen Tse, the reputed Ping On leader who ruled over a relatively bloodless Chinatown for more than a decade. For the last two years, Tse has been living in Hong Kong, where he has a bean sprout business. Several years ago, Tse threw one of his chief lieutenants, Trung Chi Truong, out of Ping On after the lat-ter's propensity to engage in freelance robberies in and around Bos 3 Chinatown By Doreen E.

Iudica GLOBE STAFF Three of the five men murdered in Saturday's Chinatown social club shooting were identified by police yesterday, but confirming" the victim's identities has shed little light on why they were killed, authorities said. While police have no suspects or solid motives in the case, investiga ATLANTA CNN yesterday announced that it will expand its international programming by transmitting its 24-hour international news network, CNNI, to Asia and Latin America, beginning Jan. 28. CNN currently distributes its domestic network to Asia and Latin America and transmits CNNI to more than 10 million homes in Europe. "Because of the growing size of our audiences in Asia and Latin sun, breezy, around 40 i.i ii i ii i i.

mjiMmmmmmmmmKmmmJmmmmmmmmmimmmmmimmmmm ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES The night time soap series "Knots Landing" and the daytime serial "Days of Our Lives" were the big winners in Soap Opera Digest's seventh annual presentation of the Soap Opera Awards. Knots Landing was named best prime-time soap over "Dallas" and "Twin Peaks." "Knots Landing" cast members William Devane, Michele Lee, Larry Riley, Lynne Moody, Sam Behrens, Michelle Phillips, Kevin Dobson and Nicollette Sheridan also won trophies. "Days of Our Lives" was picked as best daytime show over "As the World Turns" and "General Hospital." But "General 'Hospital" made an impressive showing with five trophies in the afternoon race. CBS swept the prime-time cate gories and walked away with 13 tro phies, to ABC's eight and NBC's three, during Saturday night's awards ceremony at the Biltmore Hotel. NBC taped the event for a two-hour television show that aired yesterday afternoon.

Winners of Soap Opera Awards were picked by the more than 6 mil lion readers of Soap Opera Digest which bills itself as the No. 1 maga zine of soap opera fans. Prime-time winners were: Serial: "Knots Landing." Actor. William Devane, "Knots Landing." Weather Clouds and National Weather Service 7 p.m. EST forecast and highs for Tuesday, January 15 REGIONAL FORECASTS Boston area: Clouds and sun, west winds around 10 m.p.h., becoming light easterly during afternoon, highs near 40 (4 C).

Tonight, mostly cloudy, lows 30-35 (-1 to 2 C). Tomorrow, rain, near 100 percent chance in afternoon, becoming windy, highs around 40 (4 C). Massachusetts, Rrioda Island, Connecticut: Partly sunny, highs in upper 30s and low 40s. Tonight, mostly cloudy, chance of rain or freezing rain late in Connecticut, lows 25-35. Tomorrow, rain, especially during afternoon, highs 35-45.

Cape Cod and Islands: Partly sunny, light west winds becoming southeast during afternoon, highs near 40. Tonight, mostly cloudy, lows 30-35. Tomorrow, rain, near 100 percent chance during afternoon, becoming windy, highs 40-45. Massachusetts coastal marine forecast: West winds around 10 knots, possibly becoming southeast less than 10 knots during afternoon through tonight. Average seas 2-4 feet, 1-3 feet tonight.

Maine, New Hampshire: Chance of morning flurries north and mountains, otherwise variable cloudiness, highs In upper teens to mid-30s. Tonight, clouding up, lows in single numbers to low 20s. Tomorrow, snow developing north and mountains, snow, sleet or freezing rain developing elsewhere, highs 20-30. Vermont: Mostly cloudy, chance of flurries, highs in 30s. Tonight, mostly cloudy, flurry possible, lows in 20s.

EXTENDED FORECASTS I HIGH Weather City Amsterdam Athens Auckland Bangkok Barbados Barcelona Beijing Beirut Belgrade Berlin Bermuda Brisbane Brussels Budapest Copenhagen Dhahran Dublin Frankfurt Geneva Harare Havana Helsinki Hong Kong Istanbul Jerusalem i jjuiiii Rain will coast states teens in North eastern New York, killing victims identified tors have been working on a theory that the murders may have been the result of a power struggle between Asian gangs vying for control of the Chinatown underworld of extortion, gambling, prostitution and drugs. Boston Police Detective Lt. Edward J. McNelley, commander of the homicide squad, identified the victims as: Cuong Khang Luu, 26, and Man Cheong, 56, both of Tyler Street in Chinatown, and Van Tf an," you that Boston doesn't have sophisticated criminals that this guy felt he could just show up and open shop," said Goldman. Last month, Goldman and his agents walked into a Kenmore Square nightclub and arrested a 23-year-old Viet Ching member wanted on fugitive charges in Los Angeles and Seattle.

"There are, Viet Chings all over the place. I've seen at least a dozen recently," said Goldman. "The Dai Lo's we see now are Viet Ching, or former Viet Ching. They're doing the protection of. the gambling houses, robberies." Whether someone will rise to assume a leadership position as prominent as Tse is still unclear.

Tse allegedly rose to power in the 1970s by defying the traditional authority of elders inside the On Leong tong, whose members form the Chinese Merchants Association. The tong contends it is a civic group, but law enforcement officials say its leaders control the gambling and other rackets in Chinatown. Chinatown's underworld under Tse was a relatively quiet one, but after spending more than a year in jail, for refusing to speak to the President's Commission on Organized Crime, and after Boston Police arrested him at one of his highstakes gaming events, Tse decided to leave Quincy for Hong Kong. Tse did not even return for the funeral of Michael Kwong, his chief lieutenant, who was shot to death inside his Arlington restaurant in August 1989. It was that murder, and the absence of any apparent retribution for it, that sounded the death knell for the once dominant Ping On in Boston, say investigators.

31, of North East Fourth Avenue, Boca Raton, Fla. Detectives last night were still trying to identify two other men who were killed in the 4:10 a.m. attack at a Chinese and Vietnamese social club in the basement of 85A Tyler St. last Saturday. All the victims were shot in the head.

A sixth shooting victim was in critical condition at an undisclosed hospital last night where he is under police protection, authorities said. McNelley said that the investigation into the murders is "proceeding slowly" and that knowing the some background information of the victims has not yet given detectives adequate clues about the motive for the crime. "We haven't pieced it together yet and we probably won't find out what happened for a while," McNelley said. "ID helps, but it's not the end all. We still have a lot of work to do." Robbery was ruled out as the motive for the shooting after detec tives recovered more than $200 left behind by the killer or killers on one of the card tables, police said.

"It was a low-stakes, friendly card game that shouldn't have led to this," a police source said. "Some thing else sparked this." Chinatown sources said Cheong Is married and the father of two young children, but it was not clear what he did for a living or if he was a member of the social club. He was identified by his wife on Sunday, police said. Cheong's family would not comment on the murder yesterday. Little was known about Luu, whose sister identified him on Saturday night The sister could not be reached for comment Luu, who is Vietnamese and Cheong, a Chinese-American, both live in apartments in buildings directly across the street from the social club, sources said.

Police said Tran had a temporary Boston address and had been stay ing with friends for the past several weeks. The sixth victim, who is said to be in his 30s, frequented the club to play low-stakes mah-jongg and Chi nese card games, family members said through an interpreter. The victim's father said his son had not been to the Tyler Street club for three months, and did not know why he was there on the night he was shot "The father said the son gambled sometimes with his friends at the club, but not for a lot of money," said Ming Lee Sung, a reporter for the Sampan newspaper in Chinatown, who translated a telephone conver sation with the father. "He doesn't think his son was a target He thinks the killers wanted someone else. Call 578-8615 for the last word In communication! Spring classes begin January 22.

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of low tide 1.2' 0.2' MOON'S PHASES New Moon Today, 6:51 pm First Quarter Jan. 23, 9:23 am Full Moon Jan. 30, 1:10 am Last Quarter Feb. 6, 8:53 am FrcsL High rain .37 ptcldy 46 ptcldy 0 rain 50 cloudy 49 rain 43 ptcldy 60 rain 46 cloudy 46 ptcldy 31 ptcldy 38 rain 43 shwrs 63 rain 48 rain 50 snow 32 snow 37 rnsnow 41 rnsnow 41 shwrs 57 ptddy 54 snoshw 34 cloudy 38 ferain 37 sunny 57 rnsnow 32 windy 42 cloudy 34 rain 46 sunny 82 ptcldy 60 rain 37 cloudy 47 cloudy 68 cloudy 38 sunny 63 ptcldy 50 sunny 81 rain 40 cloudy 44 ptcldy 80 snow 36 cloudy 30 cloudy 44 ptcldy 55 rain 47 rain 55 cloudy 44 cloudy 38 tstrms 75 rain 47 sunny 64 rain 44 cloudy 54 rain 52 mocldy 42 CLIMATE DATA 7 EOT Meaday, lessen; 14, 1991 BOSTON TEMPERATUItES High yesterday 33 Low 18 Mean 26 Departure from normal -4 Departure this month -30 Departure this year -30 BOSTON OEGftEE-OAY DATA Degree-day units 39 Total this month 520 Total for season 2089 Total corns, date last year 2794 30-yr. normal, corres.

date 2469 BOSTON nttCtafTATION Total 24 hours, ending 8 p.m none Total this month to date 1 .56 Departure from normal Total this year 1.56 Departure from normal SNOWFALL Total today none Monthly total 9.6 Total for season 10.8 BAROMETER AT SEA IEVEL at 1 p.m. 30.06 in. 1018.0 mbs. at 7 p.m 30.08 in. 1018.6 mbs.

7 p.m. relative humidity 69 YESTERDAY'S SUNSHSE BffiSC 279 49 of possible. Boston record temps for January 15 are 65 In 1932 and -12 In 1957. HIGH TIDE A.M. P.M.

Old Orchard, Me 10:33 11:09 Hampton Beach, N.H 10:44 11:20 Plum Island 10:42 11:18 Ipswich 10:40 11:16 Gloucester 10:39 11:15 BOSTON AREA 10:42 11:18 Scltuate 10:37 11:13 Plymouth 10:47 11:23 Cape Cod Canal (E) 10:41 11:17 Cape Cod Canal (W) 8:32 9:08 Falmouth 10:24 11:00 HyannisPort 11:43 Chatham 11:12 11:48 Weilfleet 10:54 11:30 Provincetown 10:56 11:32 Nantucket Harbor 11:47 Oak Bluffs 11:12 11:48 MT. WASHINGTON 7 p.m. EOT weather: fog; wind: 45 m.p.h.; temperature: 11; maximum: 14; minimum: -1; precipitation: trace; snow depth: trace. rain 50 cloudy 56 snow 40 mocldy 34 sunny 74 ptcldy 65 ptcldy 84 ptcldy 47 ptcldy 39 ptcldy 71 cloudy 44 fair 62 cloudy 45 rain 47 fall in the Pacific Northwest as well as from the Gulf to the central Plains. High temperatures will be in the extreme northern Minnesota; in the 20s from eastern Dakota to extreme northern Michigan as far south as the Minnesota-Iowa border as well as in extreme northern Publishing jl FOREIGN CITIES US CITIES yesterday Weather and highs for today and and temps Tt 34 63 71 93 84 52 37 64 43 32 75 84 37 36 39 63 45 41 39 79 71 27 63 50 54 Johannesburg 82 Kiev 43 Lisbon 55 London 41 Madrid 46 Manila 84 Moscow 34 Nairobi 75 Nassau 75 New Delhi 66 Nicosia 64 Oslo 16 Rome 59 Seoul 28 Singapore 81 Stockholm 23 Sydney 87 Taipei 59 Tel Aviv 64 Tokyo 52 Warsaw 39 Advertising Public Speaking" Creative Writing TV Radio' Mterature jf Retrace the critical steps President Bush took throughout the Persian Gulf crisis to today's deadline in the desert.

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Vermont: Snow or rain Thursday, fair Friday and Saturday. Highs 35-40 Thursday, 25-30 Friday and Saturday; lows near 30 Thursday, in teens Friday and Saturday. 6- TO 10-DAY OUTLOOK Temperatures will be near normal in all six New England states Sunday, January 20 through Thursday, January 24. Precipitation will be above normal throughout the region. Weather Weather CNy Calgary Chariottetown Montreal Toronto Vancouver LATIN City Bogota Buenos Aires Caracas Lima Mexico City Rio de Janeiro San Juan Santiago Sao Paulo 25 9 50 45 cloudy rain REPORT at Spm.