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29 In Neivton, seven prosecutors at Nuremberg say the landmark trial indelibly marked their lives. Page 30. tp News section New England 38 Weddings 42 Deaths 44 THE BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE APRIL 2, 1995 rfl i Turnpike's smooth ride exacts a fiscal toll By "Thomas C. Palmer Jr. GLOBE STAFF Marking time against AIDS Two views: Superb but highly suspect efficiency zation," said Thomas J.

Curley who voted against the plan. The two Democratic board members refused, and Curley lost. That is the kind of action that Turnpike Authority boards and managers have taken repeatedly in the road's 43-year existence, generating criticism of fiscal inefficiency, extravagance and a fierce determination to perpetuate its own existence. On the other hand, when Curley drives in to twice-monthly board meetings from his home in Pittsfield, he cruises along one of the handsomest and best-maintained highways in the country. The 135-mile turnpike has an outstanding safety record, its tolls have remained well below the rate of inflation, it gets no tax money and authority bond ratings are top-notch.

As the Legislature prepares to vote this month on the Weld administration's proposal to tap the Turnpike Authority as owner and operator of the new, $7.7 billion Central Artery and Third Harbor Tunnel, those conflicting "assessments are being weighed: superb performance but highly suspect cost-efficiency. "The turnpike is an excellently run road," said state Sen. Brian P. Lees (R-East Longmea-dow). "However, it's an expensive road, and I hope we could do some things to bring it in line.

It's gotten to be very expensive in the last TURNPIKE, Page 36 When the three-member, board of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority voted last week on an early retirement plan for more than 200 employees, the lone Republican member wanted a stipulation against None of those retirees could be replaced until July 1996; when a Weld majority will replace the leftover Dukakis regime. "It was my view that their positions shouldn't be filled until the new leadership of the turnpike came on board, so that the new chairman could assess the overall needs of the organi "PAIN?" ANNIE O'CONNOR asked. "Some," her patient replied. "Eating?" O'Connor wanted to know. "Good," the woman told her.

"Today, I've already had a doughnut and a Pepsi. You got AIDS, you gotta eat." Annie O'Connor is a 26-year-old Hospice Care worker. She is from way but the other morning she was climbing a flight of stairs in South Boston to see a client, a 33-year-old woman who was in her own bed in the front room of her second-floor apartment, AIDS THE SKY'S THE LIMIT 2d jury quits Tin slowly stealing the life right out of her. "It's a miracle I'm here," the woman said. "I thought I was dead at Christmas.

I was 82 Dounds. I'm 120 now but I have no T-cells. None at all. That's my immune system." "My job is to help the living die," O'Connor said. "You don't know how great vou are." her na- tient said.

The woman contracted the virus from her boyfriend, father of her 14-year-old son. The man Hiprl lust vpnr rhutrs Hirtv npprllps anrl ATDS fi ohmus verdict DA vows 3d trial in police slaying nally killing him. She was young and working when she tested HIV-positive. The boyfriend, who roofed houses, managed to keep his secret his drug abuse as well as his infection from her for years. She has another son, 18.

All three people now live together with her death sentence. "Put in that I'm a white woman," she said. "This isn't just a gay thing. It's not just blacks and Puerto Ricans. Look at my guy's family: Nine people in his family have AIDS.

Nine! By John Milne GLOME STAFF "Hia mnthar haH ihrao hnva Inp la liporl Hio i I 7 fe if iv I two other brothers have AIDS. He has a sister with AIDS. His aunt his mother's sister she has it, too. And the aunt has a daughter who has it Shp's nn tho afrppt tn fppH hpr hahit and shp's had two babies in two years, both born HIV-positive. And me.

Nine people. Needles, drugs and unprotected sex. Unbelievable." O'Connor, educated in Ireland and England as a nurse, arrives at the apartment several times a wpplr with a atnilp and thp irift of pnnstnnt carp GLOBE STAFF PHOTO JOHN TLUMACKI Jason Machero, 8, of Easton, stands tall at the plate, taking a few practice swings yesterday in South Boston while waiting for his brother to finish try outs for the Boston College High baseball team has iu otner clients, an aying, some irom AIDS, others from cancer. She walks into dangerous projects in the middle of the night on emergencies and comes down the quietest city streets where neighbors never know and seldom assume that someone upstairs in a house has AIDS. "I don't know how she is still alive," O'Connor said.

"I've been seeing her five months now. She was nearly dead in December but she has a fierce will to live. It's a miracle." Every weekday, workers from Community Servings in Dorchester brine suDoer to the fam For the second time three months, a mistrial was declared after a jury deadlocked yesterday, in the trial of Sean K. Ellis, charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of Boston Police Detective John J. Mulligan.

District Attorney Ralph C. Martin 2d vowed to try Ellis a third time. Halfway through its third day of deliberation, the Suffolk Superior Court jury reported itself "hopelessly deadlocked" in a note to Judge James D. McDaniel Jr. At 1:02 p.m.

the judge curtly declared: "The case will be a mistrial. Next trial date June 5." Martin said he was determined to conduct another murder trial. "Our intention, and you can bet on it, is to try it again," he said. "There's no way to put on a happy face about this. It's frustrating for this office, for the police department and, most importantly, for the Mulligan family." Boston Police Commissioner Paul Evans said he was equally determined.

"I feel strongly that we have the individuals responsible for this heinous crime," he said. "Nothing has changed in that belief. If a third trial or a fourth trial, whatever it takes, that's what we're committed to." Mulligan's family was in the front row when the mistrial was declared. They had no immediate comment, Martin said. Mulligan's brother, Richard Mulligan, said later the family was "disappointed" with yesterday's outcome, but that he was confident Ellis MULLIGAN, Page 31 Ex-Marine's death a mystery ily.

HosDiee Care Drovided a lawver to DreDare a will. O'Connor, in addition to nursing, makes sure By Richard H. Chacon and Charles M. Sennott GLOBE STAFF and the job that awaited him as an investigator at the United Parcel Service terminal in Somerville, but have no clues. "I hate to put it this way, but there is no prime suspect, although there Ls an ongoing investigation," said Peter Casey, a Norfolk assistant district attorney and one of the lead investigators on the case.

"The way he disappeared and was executed deep" in the woods makes this an unusual homicide." "It's just bizarre that there's still nothing definite," said Steven Cox, David Cox's older brother. "The authorities have told us they think this was a local crime. If that's true, then it should've COX, Page 33 One year later, no arrests made in Medfield case Men," mysteriously disappeared from his Natick apartment in January 1994, nearly a year after he said he would file a lawsuit against the film's creators. Today, investigators from two town police departments, the State Police and the Norfolk distinct attorney's office say they still do not know how he vanished, who killed him or why. They say they have investigated several possible angles: his military past, his small gambling habit It has been exactly one year since David V.

Cox's body was found lying in a snowbank on a secluded road in Medfield, and officials still do not know who killed him or why. His family and his former girlfriend worry that the chances of solving the mystery are fading with every passing day. Cox, 27, a Needham native who claimed his experiences as a Marine stationed in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, were depicted in the 1993 film "A Few Good "It's amazing what these people do," the dying woman said. The other morning she was getting ready to go to City Hospital to have a tooth pulled. As the disease progresses, gums rot and teeth turn bad.

She has lost five in two months. "I love City Hospital," she said. "They know I have full-blown AIDS but they treat you like a human being. They're not afraid of you." 1 She worries about her 14-year-old. At first, she told him his father had cancer, but then -afraid he'd hear it in the schoolyard she told him about AIDS, drugs and unsafe sex Troubled enough by being 14, he has had difficulty knowing i that, soon, he will also lose his mother.

"I got pregnant when I was 14," she was saying. "I did all the crazy things a kid can do growing up but I never did any drugs with needles. And now her voice trails off. Her medicines are on the nightstand beside her bed, plastic amber bottles in a straight line like sentries waiting to be called to duty: Compo-zine, Zovirax, Lorazepam. "No T-cells," she said again.

"SLx years ago I had 70. A normal person has more than 500. 1 was in a support group with 30 other women with AIDS. SLx of us are left" Then, her 18-year-old came bounding up the stairs with his girlfriend. He needed money to register a car.

"I don't have any on me," she told him. "Ill have to go to the bank." "When can you go?" he asked. "In an hour," she told him. "Ill come back," he said, leaving. Standing by the bed, Annie O'Connor was on the phone with a doctor, changing a prescription and making arrangements to get her patient to City to have another tooth pulled.

The woman listened to her son's footsteps in the hallway and said quietly. "Last couple days I been getting dizzy. That scares me." Driving over 75 Some seniors refuse to stop even if they are hazards on road i -4 'A 1 I 5 By Geeta Anand GLOBE STAFF More Metro News Two as one: Girls and boys will continue to study math together in the Portsmouth, N.H., schools. Metro Update, Page 30. HPoUUcalseer.Gov.

Weld says teleportation may be in our future. Political Capital, Page Dreamer or schemer? Was Olivier de Cavele, who sought to build a tourist mecca in Greenfield, on the level? He's been deported on a visa complaint, and is under investigation for worse. New England, Page 38. SUDBURY Police spotted David Tibbott's car swerving on a Maine highway two years ago, his eyes blurred by cataracts and the headlights of oncoming traffic. Last fall, the 75-year-old man crashed into a tree.

And then, two months later, he hit a pedestrian. Each time, police temporarily suspended the retired sales managers license to drive. But Tibbott returned to the road after the Maine mishap, and again, illegally, after hitting the tree. Now on criminal probation for the pedestrian accident, in which a woman was slightly injured, and banned from driving for two years, he remains determined to drive again. ELDERLY.

Page 34 GU3BE STAfT PHOU) WE SOY UDA David Tibbott, 73, of Sudbury, on criminal probation and banned from driving for two years, plans to drive his station wagon again..