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VOLUME 241NUMBER139 58 pages 35 cents 60 cents at newsstands beyond 30 miles from Boston JUST DEW IT Monday: Sun after shower; 70s Tuesday: Mostly sunny; 60s High tide: 1:21 1:27 p.m.' Full report: Page 46 MONDAY, MAY 18, 1992 MarelieFs shot in Lawyers gain from deathbed will Woman's friends baffled by bequest that meant windfall for attorneys of three parts hen Kathleen Harrington signed the last of many Secon Second inauano versions of her will a year ago, she was in the intensive-care unit at Milton This article was prepared by the Globe Spotlight Team, which consists of editor Gerard O'Neill, reporters Bruce Mohl, Brian C. Mooney, Patricia Wen and researcher Karen Douglass. It was written by Mooney. that she often changed her will and the pecking order within that circle of friends. So it stunned them to learn she had left most of her estate to two men they do not believe were close to Harrington attorneys John P.

Mulvihill of Osterville and Edward F. McDermott of Shrewsbury. Both refused numerous Globe requests for interviews. The Harrington case dramatizes an issue now being debated in the legal profession: Should a lawyer be allowed to prepare or change a will in which he or she is a beneficiary? SPOTLIGHT, Page 16 rington's pen produced a windfall for her two lawyers, the co-executors, who will split as much as $400,000 under the terms of the revised will prepared for the dying 85-year-old woman's signature. By many accounts, the retired Boston schoolteacher was a colorful character who, 30 years after her husband had died, lived comfortably in a brick house on Longwood Road, Milton, with her beloved Welsh terrier, Perkins.

Harrington liked to talk about her wealth, sometimes in exaggerated terms. She had no children and often told her circle of friends how she would mete out her money and possessions in her will. And she let it be known 9 dead, 242 wounded in rally against premier Hospital, suffering from an inoperable brain tumor that would kill her 11 days later. The deathbed will left many of her longtime friends confused and chagrined, especially two who based on assurances by Harrington shortly before she entered the hospital expected to be among her executors and reap a substantial portion of her estate. Instead, the trembling strokes of Har By Mary Kay Magistad SPECIAL TO THE GLOBE the End Of a season BANGKOK, Thailand Troops opened fire on thousands of demonstrators this morning, after a peaceful rally demanding the resignation of the unelected prime minister turned into a night of violence and vandalism.

Hospitals and witnesses said at least nine people were killed and at least 242 injured. The troops may have been firing into the air simply to disperse the demonstrators, but protesters and foreign journalists said they saw troops firing into crowds. Even after Prime Minister Suchinda Kraprayoon declared a state of emergency at midnight, rioters continued to rampage on a broad boulevard leading toward the royal palace. Flames leaped from a torched police station. Skeletons of cars lay smoldering where they had been overturned and set on fire.

One group of rioters, mostly young men wearing black headbands, commandeered an ambulance and a police van, smashed the windows, and drove up and down Rajdamnern Avenue, shouting, "Suchinda, out!" Yesterday evening, rioters had thrown bricks, bottles and Molotov cocktails at hundreds of riot police, who had barricaded themselves into a circle where five streets meet. Demonstrators tried to advance from four of those streets, pushing forward, and being pushed back. On one sidestreet, demonstrators set a street vendor's cart on fire and sent it rolling into the police barricade. A crowd that had gathered on the other side of a fetid canal roared its approval. "Kill them! Kill them!" the people shouted, occasionally throwing bricks or stones across the canal.

THAILAND, Page 4 I' y. '-s rV M'V ivSST yij New breed hopes to ride to Congress on wave of anger By Michael K. Frisby GLOBE STAFF PHOTO LANE TURNER 77w? Celtics' veteran front line, Larry Bird, Kevin McHale and Robert Parish, look on in dismay as the Cleveland Cavaliers put the finishing touches to Boston's season yesterday. The Cavs beat the Celtics, 122-101 in Cleveland and will meet the Chicago Bulls in the Eastern Conference finals. The defeat capped an up-and-down Celtic season, but leaves many questions including Bird's status for next season unanswered.

Complete coverage in Sports, Page 25. GLOBE STAFF WASHINGTON As Tim Hagan campaigns in Cleveland for a seat in Congress, the Cuyahoga County commissioner tells voters that House Speaker Thomas Foley should be ousted and that Congress must be rescued from the lobbyists and corporate interests who seem to control its members. In northern Michigan, Michael McElroy, a restaurant owner, travels the 23,000 square miles of his vast district raging against unresponsive "career politicians" and calling for campaign finance reform to shove the rascals out. To candidates across the nation like Hagan and McElroy who hope to replace the more than 100 incumbent congressmen and several senators who are retiring or expected to be defeated in November, the mass exodus from Congress is an opportunity to transform it into a more responsive body. The congressional hopefuls say they represent a new breed of candidate, who will care more about obtaining results than partisan posturing.

CONGRESS, Page 8 Fiscal needs lead church to seek sale of TV station 'They'll tell that if we are unhappy, we should go to the Palestinian state. But we don't want to This is our kind, and we want to stay here. LUTFY MASHOUR, Editor of Arabic weekly As-Sennara Among Israel's Arabs, fear of the future As elections approach and peace is considered, confusion reigns Inside By Ethan Bronner GLOBE STAFF Palestinian state next to Israel one day, they ask themselves, what will that mean for us? "Our problems begin when there is a Palestinian state," said Lutfy Mashour, chief editor of As-Sennara, the largest-selling Arab weekly in Israel. "What will happen then when we are discriminated against, when our land is taken to Drovide for more Jewish immigrants? ISRAEL, Page 4 ists today. Although they vote and have legal equality, Israel's Arabs feel mistrusted and mistreated.

And they chafe at the thought that their taxes go partly to buy the tear gas canisters that are shot at their cousins under military occupation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. But the inhabitants of this traffic-choked and underfunded Arab town effectively, the capital of Arab Israel look to the future with trepidation. If there is a health science: When laparoscopic gallbladder surgery goes wrong Bruins lose: The Boston Bruins lost to the Pittsburgh Penguins, 4-3, in the first game of their Wales Conference playoff series. Page 25. Bidding time: Perhaps no barometer of local economic ills is more telling than the steady business of foreclosure auctions.

Page 42. NAZARETH, Israel Five weeks before Israel holds elections, the 750,000 Arabs who carry Israeli citizenship and could determine the next government are in a state of profound political confusion. Put simply, many of them fear peace. It's not that they are warmongers or that they prefer the state of affairs that ex By James L. Franklin GLOBE STAFF In another sign that they are being forced into unwelcome changes by financial necessity, the directors of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, are announcing today they will sell their local television station, WQTV (Ch.

68) in Boston. UntQ now, Christian Science officials have insisted their church would retain Channel 68 even though severe financial losses had forced them on April 15 to halt original programming for their cable television service, the Monitor Channel M. Victor Westberg, the church's spokesman, said yesterday that no price tag has been placed on Channel 68. He added that the station was purchased for $7.3 million to $7.5 million. But a knowledgeable church source said it was unlikely the church will recover its investment in Channel 68, which the source said amounted to between $40 million and $50 million.

Officials of the financially troubled church are also moving up to 'CHURCH, Page 6 Council newcomer from Roxbury not taking the meek rookie's role FEATURES CLASSIFIED Ask The Globe 48 Classified 50-58 Business 19 Autos 54 Comics 48-49 Help Wanted 51 Deaths 22-23 Real Estate 50 Editorials 10 Apartments 50 Horoscope 48 CommlIndl 50 LivingArts 42 Market Basket 53 Lottery 14 YachtsBoats 35 Sports 25 Learning 18 ByDonAucoin GLOBE STAFF ffl XT 4 7s 47 TVRadio Globe Newgpper Co. uary. He conferred with merchants, residents, and gang members, urging calm, listening hard. He found a neighborhood filled with anger and frustration but not a tinderbox. After a while, "it was clear that people were choosing the responsible path," Crayton said last week.

One person who had not chosen the responsible path, in Crayton's view, was Mayor Flynn. Despite the tense atmosphere in Boston that week, Flynn had decided to go to Los CRAYTON, Page 6 When Los Angeles was burning, and Boston officialdom worried that the flames of discontent might spread to this city, Anthony Crayton decided he had to take Roxburys temperature. For two days and nights following the incendiary Rodney King verdict of April 29, Crayton traveled the neighborhood he has represented on the Boston City Council since Jan Hill 111 2 6 947725' my ANTHONY CRAYTOX Taking independent path.