The Boston Globe from Boston, Massachusetts • 28

28 THE BOSTON GLOBE WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1992 Lowell GOP senator rules out reelection City Scenes By Peter J. Howe GLOBE STAFF mm JhL- Burns and Panagiotakos, both of whom had previously announced campaigns for the House, yesterday took out papers' and filed signatures for the Senate race as well and, if the new nomination papers are certified, will have to withdraw from one of the races. Besides Lowell, the district includes Dracut, Dunstable, Groton, Pepperell, Shirley and Tyngsbor-ough. Yesterday was the deadline for candidates for all 40 Senate and 160 House seats to turn in signatures to local clerks and election commissioners for certification. Candidates can withdraw before May 29 and have their names removed from the September primary ballot A total of 18 House members -four Republicans and 14 Democrats will not be seeking reelection.

While Sen. Michael LoPresti (D-East Boston) has been mentioned as another possible Senate incumbent who might decline to seek reelection, LoPresti associates did file signatures at Boston City Hall on his behalf yesterday, officials said. It was not immediately clear whether LoPresti whose district also includes Winthrop and part of Cambridge would meet the 300-signature requirement. LoPresti could not be reached by telephone yesterday for comment reelection. The former executive director of the Lowell Boys and Girls Club indicated she might seek office again "in a few years, when I do have the strength to be a good candidate again." Sullivan's decision stunned many Republicans, who now hold only one Senate seat more than the number needed to block Democrats from passing legislation over Gov.

Weld's veto. Many had seen Sullivan as a future hope for the party. Weld called Sullivan "one of my closest legislative allies," while Senate GOP leader David H. Locke of Wellesley said: "It is truly bad news for the people of her district, all the taxpayers of Massachusetts, and for the Republican Party that she will not be able to run." Sullivan is backing Mary Burns, head of the Republican City Committee in Lowell, to succeed her and reportedly told her Sunday she would not seek reelection, giving Burns a head start to collect signatures. In 1990, Burns ran for state representative against incumbent Rep.

Susan F. Rourke (D-Lowell), losing by nearly 1,000 votes. Republicans expect it will be difficult for the GOP to win the seat without Sullivan running, noting that the district is heavily Democratic and Sullivan who came into office First-term Sen. Nancy Achin -T Sullivan (R-Lowell) set off a political iree-ior-au in ner nomeiown yesier- day when she announced on the last day that potential candidates could declare themselves that she will not seek reelection. In what Lowell politicos de- 1 ia- Ji It 1 a scriDea as necuam, ai leasi iour candidates from both parties scram-! bled at the last minute to take out nomination papers, collect the re-! quired 300 signatures, and file be-I fore yesterday's 5 p.m.

deadline. Among them was former state Sen. PhiliD L. Shea, who had been I preparing to run for Congress against. US Rep.

Chester G. Atkins, as well as two others who had al- ready begun House campaigns. i Sullivan. S3, said shp won't seek reelection because she is undergoing chemotherapy as she recovers from breast cancer. Referring to serving in office and running for reelection, Sullivan said in a statement: "It is unrealistic to believe that I can do both while undergoing chemotherapy.

I have decided to focus my energy on being a good senator" for the remainder of her term. Sullivan is the sixth senator the first Republican to decline to seek McGovern presses for Lawrence firebug relief KEVIN Living together as brothers Yesterday, as the latest suspects in the killing of Charleston Sarjeant were being arraigned in Dorchester District Court, it was busy, loud and sunny along Columbia Road in Uphams Corner. Women sold secondhand clothes in front of the Pilgrim Church. Drivers double-parked in front of the Strand Theatre, tying up traffic as they do every day. The Galaxia Video Store was featuring a Chuck Norris movie called "The Hitman." Everything was as it was last week.

Except for the police car parked in front of the Tasty Chicken, now the most infamous fast-food joint in the city. "That cop, man, hell be gone in a week," a young man named Ricky said, sitting on a bicycle on Hancock Street, around the corner from the Tasty Chicken. "They're like you," he said, meaning reporters. "You come when somebody's dead, then you leave." Ricky said he is 18. He wore a Chicago White Sox cap, blue jeans, black Adidas sneakers, and a black windbreaker.

Ricky says he knows several of the suspects. Asked if they were friends, he shrugged. "Maybe," he said. As tough as Ricky acted, he would not give his last name. "They'll be out, man," Ricky said.

"Ain't no way it take 10 boys to kill a man. Some of themll be out. No way all them did that At least they won't prove all of them did." Ricky was asked if he was disturbed by what happened to Charleston Sarjeant Ricky looked up, squinting, and said, "I don't know him." Ricky cruised back toward the square on his bike, which seemed incredibly small for him. Over his shoulder, dominating Uphams Corner, was a huge blue billboard with white lettering. As you exit the Tasty Chicken, as Sarjeant's killers did, scattering into the night while he bled to death, the billboard faces the restaurant and it is impossible not to see.

It quotes Martin Luther King and it reads: "We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools." One of the Klan makes it clearer A local representative of the Ku Klux Klan called the other 1 NANCY ACHIN SULLIVAN Undergoing chemotherapy with the anti-incumbent landslide of 1990 was the first Republican senator from Lowell in decades. By yesterday's deadline, the following eight people filed signatures with the Lowell Election Commission to run for Sullivan's seat: Democrats Walter Flynn, Frank Gorman, Daniel Leahy, Bernard LeMoyne, Stephen Panagiotakos and Shea; and Republicans Burns and Judith Hor-gan. ready spent $480,000 in the past' year tearing down abandoned structures, but have only enough money now to demolish buildings that pose an immediate structural hazard. But Weld said yesterday that any assistance the state provides communities for demolition should come from capital funds. "It's a great cause.

I'm sure there are a lot of causes you could make a case for spending $5 million, including tearing down abandoned buildings," he said. Dominic Slowey, spokesman for Administration and Finance Secretary Peter Nessen, said that before committing to any program to assist MONDAY thru FRIDAY April 27 to May 1 11 AM to 7 PM slVTArZ CM 'Wh FIRST GLOBE STAFF PHOTO WENDY MAEDA Neighborhood resident Eva Rojas accepts a comforting hand from Mayor Kevin Sullivan yesterday as city and state officials, touring the scenes of arson fires in Lawrence, stopped at one on Bradford Street. CULLEN day to request of all things, a clarification. He said an item ap-, pearing here last week incorrectr1 ly suggested that the Klan is ant Catholic. "I'm Roman Catholic and about 90 percent of the local chapter is Catholic," the Man From Klan insisted, adding that the sheet-clad papists were in- i 'v suited by the inference.

The Man From Klan acknow' edged that historically, the Klan? was anti-Catholic, but said all that had been straightened out. He said the ranks of the cross burners are full of lies, particularly here in the Northeast. Why, the Man From Klan said, even the Grand Wiz-ard, or Imperial Wizard, or the Grand Poobah, or the Chief terbuffalo, or some national Klan'1' honcho, is Catholic. If you're wondering how we can be so sure this guy is actually in the Klan, well, we can't But he did know exactly where and how- the Klansman newspaper had -been distributed in South Boston recently. And he was priwy to details about another recent but, unpublicized, distribution of the Han's newspaper.

So if he ain't in the Klan, he's part of their clan. VS Anyway, the Man From Klan said it is only because of deliberate disinformation by the news media, dominated by left-leaning -communist-kissing pinko-loving liberals, that the Klan remains in-" accurately saddled with a reputa- for hating Catholics as much as they do blacks and Jews. And another thing, said the Man From Klan, "We are not white supremacists, as you keep writing. We're white separatists." You mean like how Malcolm was a separatist? "Yes, like that." Does that mean you guys wear hats? "Urn, no. No hats." How about that Mandela proposal, the one that would incorporate the mostly minority neighborhoods of Boston into a separate municipality? How do you guys stand on that? "Privately," said the Man From Klan, "a lot of our people support that" The local Klan, he explained, meets every other week at different locations, usually the homes of members.

He said local bers are recruited by an ad in the Klansman. In fact he said the newspaper dropoff in Boston was aimed at drumming up members. "The reason we don't do anything more public is we'd get whackos and in-, filtrators," he said. "We'd attract a lot of undesirables." plored a run for the 11th District seat of Rep. Brian Donnelly, a Dorchester Democrat who is rer' tiring.

WHDH had offered to renew her expiring contract with a heftyJ pay raise. Clapprood insisted yesterday that while the money was 1 attractive, it was not the key fac-7 tor in her decision. "It's not that I'm not tempted to get out of debt for the first time in my life," she said. "But if the district lines were clear, I could walk away from WHDH. If, this were not the year that dis-," trict lines were being redrawn, 1 4 think I would have been in this race within a couple of hours of Brian's withdrawing." Clapprood hinted that she will seek statewide or congressional office in the future.

"Whether it's a curse or a blessing, I really born with the old political fire irr" the belly. It just doesn't feel right -just now, so IU stay the course; and another door will opea" TERESA M.HANAFIN'; 4 with municipal demolitions, the administration would want to know how much money would be needed statewide. Five million dollars might not make an impact" he said. City officials yesterday convened their own task force of local, state and federal law enforcement officials to coordinate the investigation into the arson. Sullivan, introducing the group at a public meeting, urged citizens to do their part, too, in solving the crimes.

"These fires are too frequent in nature to go undetected. Someone out there knows something," said the mayor, who announced a city hot line (508) 794-1212 for anonymous tips about the fires. Officials said there are no suspects yet. The mayor said the fires did not appear to have been drug-related, though that has not been ruled out. "It's too organized.

Drug-revenge crimes tend to be knee-jerk, they tend to be sloppy. There's been no incidents of anyone being burned. These people know what they're doing," he said, theorizing that the fires were set by people "taking advantage of a situation, who somehow get a kick out of lighting fires." During the bus tour, McGovern and city officials showed lawmakers a blackened three-building complex on Bradford Place that had been the site of three fires. Part of the complex lay in rubble. Rick Oullette, who lives near the Bradford Place complex, said the city should have demolished it long ago.

"The place is a crack hang-out" he said. Tuesday number 9735 TUESDAY PAYOFFS (based on $1 bet) EXACT ORDER By John Laidler SPECIAL TO THE GLOBE LAWRENCE Sen. Patricia McGovern yesterday took fellow legislators on a tour of neighborhoods ravaged by arson as she stepped up pressure on Gov. Weld to fund a $5 million program that would help cities demolish abandoned buildings. Joined by city officials, McGovern, a Lawrence Democrat escorted state lawmakers on a city bus down streets where charred, boarded-up buildings and vacant lots attested to the 53 arson fires that have devastated the community this" year and 152 in the last 16 months.

"We could go all afternoon and you won't finish seeing our buildings," McGovern said, standing at the front of the crowded bus. "We have 250 abandoned buildings, many of them burnt, and another 250 vacant buildings, and they're all over the city of Lawrence." "We are being put into a very serious situation," said Mayor Kevin Sullivan. "The lives of firefighters, neighbors and plain residents are being jeopardized." Sullivan said that unlike the 1970s, when the city was hit by a wave of arson, the recent fires do not appear to have been set for profit because many of the properties are uninsured. McGovern, chairwoman of the Senate Ways and Means Committee, said she will urge House and Senate leaders to seek an override of Weld's veto of a $5 million appropriation to assist communities with the demolition of abandoned buildings. "It's obvious to some of us that SATURDAY April 25 May 2 8AMto6PM SUNDAY April 26 May 3 10 AM to 6 PM 1 1 --TV I 1 1 there was a lack of knowledge on the part of the administration as to what happens in these cities, especially during the recession," said McGovern, who also called for creation of a statewide arson strike force.

Officials said the abandoned buildings, many of which have become city-owned through liens, are a magnet for drug dealers and vandals, and ultimately arsonists. "No one takes care of the buildings," said Police Chief Allen Cole. "Vandals break the windows, start using drugs. Someone says, 'No one cares anyway, let's torch it' City officials said they have al TV If A TT AnTM7n IVI Jrvl JPvrv (aimium Clapprood cites redistricting, rules out congressional bid 1V5-WAREH0USE SALE LAST CHANCE TO SAVE UP TO 70 ON QUALITY OVERSTOCKS, SAMPLES, DISCONTINUED ITEMS, SLIGHT IRREGULARS AND DAMAGED MERCHANDISE. AU 4 digits $5,245 First or last 3 $734 Any 2 digits $63 Any 1 digit $6 ANY ORDER All 4 digits $219 First 3 digits $122 Last 3 digits $122 MASS CASH April 27: 7 15 19 30 Jackpot: There were three jackpot winners.

MASS MILLIONS April 28: 1 2 3 13 23 25 (Bonus ball 31) Jackpot There was one jackpot winner. PREVIOUS MASS. DRAWINGS" Monday 1891 Sunday 2438 Saturday 5385 Friday 9347 Thursday 4348 The Country Loft a national mall order company specializing in country gifts, furniture, and accessories, is moving west to Arizona, after 18 years in Massachusetts. For 9 days only. April 25 to May 3, we're offering tremendous savings on a huge selection of our merchandise.

Fresh merchandise will be We're conuen(en(y located In Hlngham. Massachusetts at South Shore Parte, right off exit 1 5 of Route 3. the Southeast Expressway. Marjorie Clapprood, the feisty former state representative turned radio talk show host said yesterday that she will not run for Congress this year, but left the door open for a political campaign in the near future. Clapprood, 42, said the major factor in her decision was the uncertainty of whether Massachusetts will have 10 or 11 congressional districts, and where the district boundaries will be.

"It would be like running a marathon not only without a map, but blindfolded," said Clapprood, who lives in Sharon. "I could quit my job, then run smack dab into a brick wall of an incumbent named Barney Frank or Gerry Studds. That's a risk that I just can't take right now." Under federal communications regulations, Clapprood, a morning talk show cohost on Boston radio station WHDH-AM, would have to give up her on-air job if she became a candidate for public office. Clapprood had seriously ex norePark IV I brought out dally and mark downs will be continuous throughout the 9 sale days. All items must be cleared out prior to our move in May.

Ve will accept cash or checks, and you may use Mastercard. Visa. American Express or Discover for purchases of $50.00 or more. Come in and look over our outstanding selection of unique country furnishings and gifts, thousands of items, all at tremendous LAST-TIME prices: Pine Beds Headboards. Entertainment Centers.

Cupboards. Coffee Tables and Country Chandeliers. Decorator Lighting and Lamps, Handcrafted Quilts, Bates Bedspreads, Country Check Tablecloths, Trestle Tables, Shaker Dressers and Framed Prints. Lots of Christmas Items at Giveaway Prices, a Handful of Antiques and Yardsale Items and over 15,000 items in aU. at tremendous one-time savings! Quantities are definitely limited, so shop early and often for the best choice and best prices.

Sale will be held for 9 days only at The Country Loft Warehouse Annex 35 Pond Park Road. Ingham, Massachusetts. Follow the signs to the warehouse. Ail sales are final. Ample Parking, wheelchair access is available.

I vv" 15 WVJ I South Shore The Country Loft Warehouse Bays 15. 16 35 Pond Industrial Park Rrt (7 II I 1 1 IL 1 1 I Z- 1 id Park Rd. Best 15 Chevrolet Rte 3 1 South I I Rte.3 North to Boston TUESDAY NUMBERS AROUND NEW ENGLAND Maine, N.H., Vermont 3-digit 328 4-digit 3982 Rhode Island 1827 Connecticut 3-digit 947 4-digit 2208 Lotto 5-9-17-19-24-40.