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23 THE BOSTON GLOBE WEDNESDAY, JULY 6. 1994 Family longs for donor lungs for ailing Arlington woman Conn, man arraigned on kidnap charges Prosecutor details suspect's record I il .1. -t, just doesn't want to give up. She's been battling this more or less the last 24 years. She's always been in and out of the hospital," her father said.

Seven years ago, Leanne went into a coma and was soon diagnosed with diabetes. "This child, she just looks up into the clouds and says, can't you just leave me alone," her father said. Zuccula was married last June. She has been unable to work because of her illness and lives only a few miles from her parents, who also live in Arlington. She calls her mother about six times a day.

Barbara Borges said, 'What's really going to hurt the most is no more phone her husband quoted her as saying. "She doesn't want to live without her." Zuccula is definitely a fighter, said Debbie Hand, one of her bridesmaids last June and a friend since high school. "She has this contagious laugh," she said. Hand and the three other bridesmaids left work early yesterday to keep a vigil at the hospital. Cystic fibrosis is a congenital disease that progressively damages the tissue of organs, particularly the pancreas, lungs and liver.

By Debbie Kong CONTRIBUTING REPORTER Paul Borges daughter Leanne, 24, has always figured if she got into trouble, her dad could take care of it But Leanne Zuccula of Arlington, born with cystic fibrosis, is now unconscious and on a ventilator, in urgent need of a lung transplant The last thing she said before they put her on the ventilator was "Dad, I love said Borges, in a telephone interview from Massachusetts General Hospital where family members and friends have kept watch since Thursday, when Zuccula was hospitalized. "Leanne needs two new lungs. She is critically ill and will not survive on a ventilator," said her physician, Dr. Alan Lapey. "Her condition is extremely urgent.

She has irreversible respiratory failure and is ventilator-dependent her lungs damaged by a lifetime of progressive infection." Leanne is on the emergency list to receive a lung donation but may be taken off within 24 hours if she is not healthy enough to accept a transplant her father said. Lung transplant coordinators GLOBE STAFF PHOTO TOM LANDERS Stephen A. Bailey is arraigned yesterday in Dudley District Court on charges including kidnapping and assault with intent to murder. ByJohnLaicfler CONTRIBUTING REPORTER DUDLEY The man accused of kidnapping two children at knifepoint in Connecticut and leading police in Massachusetts on a highspeed chase Sunday has previously been convicted in Connecticut on arson, larceny and drug charges, and -once escaped from custody, a prosecutor said yesterday. As defendant Stephen A.

Bailey, dressed in white shorts and a sport shirt, sat alertly at his arraignment yesterday, Assistant Worcester District Attorney Joseph Visone detailed Bailey's past record. Law enforcement sources, meanwhile, said that Bailey was charged with sexual assault by Connecticut authorities last year. The charge was reportedly dropped after the alleged victim, who is not the mother of the two girls involved in the latest incident, failed to appear in court Bailey, 29, of Vernon, pleaded not guilty in Dudley District Court yesterday to more than a dozen charges, including two counts of kidnapping and assault with intent to murder. Authorities in Massachusetts and Connecticut say Bailey abducted two children of his girlfriend, Amy Christensen, also of Vernon; fled to Massachusetts; and led state and local police on a dramatic chase at speeds of up to 100 miles per hour. At one point, he allegedly dangled one of the children out the car window.

The chase ended when Bailey smashed his car into a police cruiser on Interstate 395 in Webster and was Bubdued by officers using a chemical irritant, police said. A police officer was injured in the chase, but the girls were were not hurt. In addition to the Massachusetts counts, Bailey is expected to face 4 LEANNE ZUCCULA On emergency organ list at the hospital could not be reached for comment "We're feeling desperate at this point We wish that someone would just hear our plea, that someone else's tragedy could be a life for Leanne," said her mother, Barbara Borges, her voice breaking. "We are running out of time at this point" When Leanne was born, doctors told her parents that the infant would not live even a year. She spent 44 days in the hospital.

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Subject luca-du approval. Securiiv depusit may required. Some restrictions applv. Bailey's court-appointed lawyer, John C. Hayes, said yesterday that Christensen had attempted to contact Bailey after he was taken into custody Sunday, suggesting that the two were still close.

"She was concerned about how he was being treated while held at the State Police barracks," Hayes told reporters. Hayes suggested his client had a different version of what happened Sunday. While not explaining why Bailey took the children, Hayes said Bailey never meant to harm the girls. The defense attorney said Bailey told him that he sped away from police because they were aggressively trying to take him into custody, flashing their weapons and breaking his car window at a rest stop on the Massachusetts Turnpike. Hayes also denied claims by authorities that Bailey had deliberately rammed the State Police car.

the powerful House Armed Services Committee, did not rule out future involvement in politics. Before reporting to the halfway house, Mavroules visited with his six grandchildren, calling the experience "a joy." He was released unescorted from the Pennsylvania penitentiary at 12:15 a.m. yesterday, prison officials said. Mavroules was not talkative when asked about his relationship with former Attorney General Francis X. Bellotti, his long-time friend and lawyer.

The Globe reported last month that Mavroules had severed his relationship with Bellotti and still owes $700,000 in legal bills. The former congressman was upset with the length of his stay at the Pennsylvania prison and the deal he made with the US Attorney's Office that resulted in a guilty plea to corruption charges, sources said. "I truly believe in and appreciate the attorney-client privilege," Mavroules said yesterday. "I don't want to talk about it one way or the other." After finding a job, Mavroules will be eligible for two-day passes from the facility. another hurt wearing seat belts.

Bob Jenness, Deborah's husband, said in a telephone interview yesterday that his wife had been en route to a doctor's office at the time of the accident He declined to talk further. The crash caused the Toyota to skid across four lanes under the Massachusetts Avenue overpass and strike a guard rail. The Ford had rolled off the other car after impact, landing on its side, police said. Connecticut and federal charges, authorities said. At his arraignment, Bailey was ordered held by Judge John C.

Geenty at the Worcester House of Correction on $100,000 cash bail. Vernon Police Lt. Michael Greenier said Connecticut authorities are seeking Bailey on two counts of kidnapping and other charges relating to the weekend incident. US Attorney Christopher Droney, who has jurisdiction over Connecticut, said yesterday that his office expects to charge Bailey with a federal kidnapping charge. Droney said the federal involvement was prompted by the fact that the alleged kidnapping crossed state lines.

In a telephone interview yesterday, Christensen voiced no bitterness toward Bailey. "The kids are home and safe," she said. "That's all that's important to me. I'm not a hateful or vengeful person." called the Coolidge House. An hour after his arrival, Mavroules stepped out onto the busy sidewalk in front of the halfway house to smoke a cigarette.

He had to knock on the door to be let back in. Mavroules joked with reporters Toil make adjustments in life, as we all do. I think I adjusted quite NICHOLAS MAVROULES Former congressman i upon his arrival and even answered a question about the ongoing health care debate. When asked about his plans, Mavroules said he wanted "to just take it easy." The former seven-term congressman, who was a member of Massachusetts Trooper John Ward. Michelle Goebel, 25, of Framing-ham, whose northbound Toyota Pa-seo was hit by Jenness airborne car, was airlifted to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston with head injuries.

She was in guarded condition but is expected to recover, police said. The Ford, traveling in the left lane of Route 128 south near Route 2A, ujjnt out of control about 8:45 a.m.,' police said. Both victims were By David Armstrong GLOBE STAFF A tanned and relaxed Nicholas Mavroules, the former congressman sent to jail 11 months ago after pleading guilty to corruption charges, arrived at a Boston halfway house yesterday to finish the last two months of his sentence. "I'm glad to be home," said Mavroules, looking every bit the politician as he warmly answered questions from reporters while making his way into the Huntington Avenue building. The 64-year-old Mavroules said his experience at the McKean Federal Correctional Institution in Bradford, was "not bad." "Of course, you lose your freedom," the Peabody Democrat said.

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