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Sermon sampling Excerpts from Easter Sunday homilies by Cardinal Law and three other area clergymen. Page 16. Also Inside Business, 17 20 Comics, 22 MetroRegion news, 13-16, 21,24 THE BOSTON GLOBE MONDAY, APRIL 4, 1994 MM Body Is ID9d as Wife stymies husband's ruse THE LETTER WAS IN-triguing. "An intoxicated male, a friend of my husband's, came 0 into our home, without his two good legs to support himself," the woman wrote. "He fell in '4 27 our bathroom, cut himselt and is suincr us.

(It Davs to be intoxi cated.) If you are interested in my story I would have to talk to Ex-Marine's story featured in film iff By Michael Grunwald GLOBE STAFF A decomposed body found Saturday along the banks of the Charles Rive? in Medfield was identified yesterday as a missing Natick man whose experiences i4 the Marines provided inspiration for movie, "A Few Good Men." I David V. Cox, 27, who was reported missing by his girlfriend the morning of Jan. 4, was shot to death, officials said. An autopsy conducted yesterday discovered a 'gunshot wound in the back of Cox's neck and three in the left side of his torso. Authorities said they had no suspects or motives in the case, and appealed to the public for information.

"We have no theories right said GLOBE STAFF PHOTO JOHN BUNDING SUNRISE SERVICE Musicians (from left) Ev Harlow, Jim Koerth and Ivo Waerlop play at an Easter ceremony in Rockland held by the First Baptist Church. you in private, as my husband has encouraged this drunken male to collect on our homeowner's policy with the understanding, if he collects, he will throw him some So we talked in private, the wife and and here's her story: A month ago, her husband and his buddy, both retired cops, came home about 1:30 a.m. after drinking at the VFW club. They sat around her kitchen table schmoozing and drinking some more. "I was in the bedroom nearby, with the door ajar," she said.

"I heard the friend go into the bathroom and shut the door." Next, she heard a loud thump. "My husband came in and said he had to take the man to the hospital because he cut himself. My bathroom looked like a war had been going on. There was blood all over. He fell into the bathtub and pulled down the shower curtain." According to the woman, the buddy got eight stitches at the hospital, then the two men went back to the VFW.

"If it was our fault, I wouldn't mind," said the woman, who is 68 years old. "But he was so drunk he thought the tub was the toilet, and then he fell into it." The woman confronted her husband and the buddy about the alleged ruse. The buddy told her it was her husband's idea, and repeated the offer to "cut you in on it" She then called up her insurance company and gave them a statement It was the first time, the company has ever had a wife rat on her husband. The couple's son, who was home at the time, supported his mother's story. In front of the insurance agent, the husband listened to his wife's version in silence, then gave a statement that his friend slipped on the bathroom floor from melted snow and ice.

Baloney, says the wife. "Snow and ice from their shoes would've melted at the kitchen table, where they sat drinking for an hour. Now he's putting in for neck and back injuries, and he had a 'My customers teach me the Jxmguaget the religion, the customs. LEE LAN, manicurist at Golden Nail in Dorcfiester tion ds-on introduc Nail shops let iinmigrants get a grip on new culture Norfolk District Attorney William Delahunt. "We need any help we can get." I Cox was found Saturday afternoon lying face down under some brush in a wooded area along the banks of the Charles, a half-mile from the nearest road, Causeway Street.

Delahunt said Cox had on the same camouflage jacket jeans and white sneakers he was wearing when he disappeared from his Water Street home three months ago. A canoer noticed one of the sneakers along the riverbank around 1:45 p.m. Saturday and called police, Delahunt said. Delahunt said he did not know how. long the body had been lying in the woods, or whether Cox had been killed there or somewhere else.

He said there were no signs of a struggle. i Cox was one of 10 Marines brought up on charges of beating a fellow soldier to death while stationed in Cuba, the incident depicted in "A Few Good Men." Seven Marines accepted plea bargains, but Cox and two others went to trial in 1987, inspiring the courtroom theatrics enacted by Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore, Kiefer Sutherland and others. BODY, Page 14 By Judith Gaines GLOBE STAFF speak little," said Julee Truong, a manicurist at perity and good fortune to the business. Four other manicurists, awaiting customers, were playing a Vietnamese card game called Four Colors. On a VCR nearby, a young boy was watching a Chinese film with Vietnamese subtitles.

Nail care has come back in fashion, and its popularity has made manicuring a hot new immigrant occupation. For recent Russian immigrants and especially for the Vietnamese, it's a job that bridges ethnic, class and racial lines, help- MANICURE, Page 14 Fantasy Nails on Tremont Street, as she hesitantly held a customer's hand and began slowly shaping the fingernails. On the floor behind her sat a smiling plastic "Lucky Buddha" with a huge pot belly, in front of which were a cup of coffee, a plate of apples, a blueberry muffin and a cigarette lighter offerings intended to bring pros- Carly Nguyen, a manicurist at Hollywood Top Nails in the South End, bows before a Buddhist statue and offerings, while a colleague waits for business. mST3r WTT 1 i i A 1 1 5 Flynn power fades with new team GL08E STAFF PHOTO JOANNE RATHE bad neck and back before he got drunk and fell. Attorney Samuel Perlman, whose firm is bringing the lawsuit would only say that his client suffered cuts, bruises and bumps in the fall.

As for the couple, uh, what has this incident done to their 40-year marriage? "I'm trying to get into senior citizen housing," said the woman. Given the recent bad news on fraud in breast cancer research, you might want to hear a different sort of expert's take on the issue. Matuschka, the model and artist whose self-portrait of her mastectomy on the cover on the New York Times Sunday Magazine last summer shocked some and energized others, will be in the area Saturday to talk about breast cancer. Her keynote speech is part of "A Day for Women" sponsored by Emerson Hospital and will feature lectures, health screenings and a reception with women physicians. "I don't know what has changed my life more, having cancer and a mastectomy or being the first cover girl to appear breastless on the cover of a magazine," said Matuschka, who recently turned 40.

"I've had to hire a staff and get an extra phone line and it's become a new career." This means she travels around the country, speaking to medical students, women's groups, politicians anyone who will listen. To students, she encourages "practicing science with humanity." Politicians she urges to clean up the environment and fund preventive programs. She encourages women who have breast cancer to "accept their bodies, become empowered to take their own lives in their hands and not to just think doctors are gods." She also speaks about how cancer changed her life for the better. "I was able to make a contribution to society with my knowledge," she said. "I was able to take my pain and grief and turn it into something that will help others.

Mine is a message of hope, of changing your life and taking something that was bad and making it good. I try very hard to make every day as wonderful as possible." Matuschka switched to a macrobiotic diet as soon as she was diagnosed in 1991. She eats no meat, dairy or fruit "I feel great" she said. "I'm a little overworked and stressed out but I try not to live with fear. Fear can kill you." The most "boring" question she's asked is why she didn't go for breast reconstruction.

"There comes a time when you don't have to adhere to some kind of model of what you're supposed to look like," she said somewhat ironically, given her career as a model "If men don't like it, it's their problem, not yours." Deadline gr reservations for "A Day for Women," at the Boxoorough Host Hotel, is tomorrow. Call (508) 287-3200. Candidate says Weld cuts hurt police, cheated cities By Chris Black GLOBE STAFF Former Mayor Raymond L. Flynn's hopes of retaining influence in Boston's city government have been diminished in recent months as the new administration replaces many of Flynn's lame-duck appointees. Flynn tucked away a number of top aides and associates into city jobs and commissions in his final weeks in office, a practice that was roundly criticized at the time as tying the hands of his successor.

But the ability of Flynn loyalists to exert control and influence in his stead has eroded because of Mayor Thomas M. Menino's efforts to put his own stamp on city government Resignations and unexpected deaths have also taken a toll on Flynn's legacy. Menino's decision last week to remove Raymond C. Dooley, Flynn's campaign manager and top political strategist as chairman of the board of the Health and Hospitals Department underscored this trend. A veteran of the Flynn administration is philosophical about the loss of power, "You lead the government as mayor from the day you take the oath to the daj you resign, and not beyond," said Neil Sullivan who served as Flynn's top policy adviser.

"The day that power transfers to someone else, the legacy is completed." When Menino became acting mayor in July after Flynn left to become ambassador to the Vatican, he inherited a police commis- 4 sioner who had been to a MENINO, Page 15, By Scot Lehigh GLOBE STAFF More Metro News Planning ahead: Business leaders in Bedford are planning a campaign to convince military officials that Hans-com air base should be saved, or perhaps expanded, even though it isn't a target for closing. Page 14. Cancer concern; Newton residents concerned about the possibility of a high cancer rate in the village of Auburn-dale are calling for an environmental study of a quarter-mile area that contains two dumps and a defunct incinerator. Page 15. New Englandnews briefs.

Page 21. ed local aid cuts. But the Cambridge senator said that now that the books are essentially balanced, Weld has opted for a $270 million tax cut rather than increasing local aid money for police and fire protection. "The issue here is not whether we had to make cuts to balance the state budget, because we did," Barrett said. "The question now is what do we restore, what do you care about Mr.

Weld proposes tax cuts rather than police protection." Ray Howell, Weld's campaign manager, dismissed Barrett's figures as "a pathetic attempt by Mike Barrett to cover up a career of siding with criminals over victims." Said Howell: "He has opposed the death penalty, opposed making criminal records available BARRETT, Page 14 Democratic gubernatorial candidate Michael Barrett said Gov. Weld has betrayed the cities, citing figures showing eight of the state's 10 largest cities have suffered reductions in police and fire staffing in the past few years. "Mr. Weld is anti-city to his core," Barrett charged, pointing to figures showing police manpower down 6.6 percent in the major cities during Weld's term. "His hypocrisy on the crime issue and his feint in the direction of suggesting support for the cities are outrageous given his record." Barrett a state senator f5m Cambridge, acknowledged that the fiscal crisis that confronted Weld when he took office necessitat.