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THE BOSTON GLOBE MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1996 iew congressmen plan. tomate mark CONGRESSMEN Continued from Page Bl members of the 105th Congress. All are Democrats, like the rest of the state's congressional delegation. But in a two-hour joint interview with The Boston Globe last week, the three were a study in contrasts. The youngest is McGovern, who pulled off a victory over Republican incumbent Peter Blute that seemed to surprise everyone but him.

Obviously delighted by his sudden rise to power, he still comes across as something of a public policy wonk. Tierney, 45, a Salem attorney who won the seat in the North Shore's 6th Congressional District by several hundred votes and is battling a recount bid by US Rep. Peter Torkildsen, is quick to display his aggressive debating style, rebuffing a' suggestion that he had used negative advertising and critiquing media coverage of his campaign. 55, Norfolk County District ing with whoever can help us help our state." "The message of this election wasn't anti-Republican," added Tierney. "It was anti-extremism.

The message from voters was clear: Democrats and Republicans have to work together to move the ball forward." That was their pledge as they departed for a weeklong orientation session in Washington. With a common agenda already in hand, talk quickly moyes to their first challenge: finding an affordable place to stay in Washington so they can return to the district on weekends. "I'm staving with Jim," Tierney says with a laugh, noting that McGovern and his wife own a home in Washington. "It will be like the 'Odd Delahunt jokes. "I guess I'll have to stay at the "If worse comes to worst," McGovern offers, "you can sleep on my sofa." sadly, is yes," he said.

"But can it buy a vote? No way." They also agreed that they would pay for new spending on social programs through cuts in defense spending and reductions in "corporate welfare" federal programs and tax breaks that favor business. While none of them would choose the label, all three of the Bay State's newly minted congressmen have liberal leanings, and they all ran extremely partisan campaigns. Yet they will serve in a Congress led by Republican conservatives like House Speaker Newt Gingrich and his lieutenant, Rep. Dick Armey of Texas. So it perhaps should come as no surprise that the newest members of the Massachusetts congressional delegation, like President Clinton, pledged to build bipartisan bridges, now that the elections are over.

"I actively sought Republican support in my campaign," Delahunt declared. "And while we go down there as Democrats, we will be work him for his new congressional career. Tierney, who has never held elective office, argued that his private law practice was an experience that prepared him for Washington life. "It's working a little bit more with a team than I'm used to, but it's similar work," he said. "Like in my private practice I'll be working to try and help people." The three men have high hopes for their first two years in Congress.

All listed education, job creation and improving access to health care as their top priorities. They also agreed that campaign finance reform is a must for next year. "Fund-raising was the worst part of running," McGovern said with disgust "Sometimes it really makes you feel like a $2 whore." Tierney nodded, but only Delahunt was candid enough to admit what even the most naive voter already knows. "Can campaign contributions get you access? The answer, Attorney Bill Delahunt, who will replace US Rep. Gerry Studds in the 10th Congressional District, which includes the South Shore, Cape and the Islands, could easily be cast as the kind of avuncular, glad-handing politician for which Massachusetts was once famous.

Yet all three share a common agenda and a surprising confidence that even as Democratic freshmen in a Republican-dominated Congress, they will make their mark. Delahunt, Tierney and McGovern won their seats after bruising campaigns in which, at some point, each was deemed the likely loser. Each seemed remarkably relaxed about his newly won status. McGovern cited his dozen years as an aide to US Rep. J.

Joseph Moakley as evidence that he knows his way around Washington and will ably represent the 3d district, which snakes from Worcester to Fall River. Delahunt argued that his service in the Legislature helped prepare Mew England Mews Briefs 2 hurt, 1 critically, in Lynn shootout Two men were injured, one critically, in what police say was an exchange of gunfire in Lynn last night. Police said the men, both in their early 20s, fired shots at each other at 7:02 p.m. outside 132 Franklin St. One man had gunshot wounds to the chest and was listed in critical condition last night at Union Hospital, police said.

The other man was shot in the foot and also treated at Union, said police. Both men were arrested. Officers injured in station fight Two MBTA police officers and a young woman were injured last night during two incidents at the JFKUMASS station on the Red Line in Dorchester, an MBTA source said last night. When MBTA police arrived at about 10 p.m., they tried to subdue a man they said was disorderly when about 150 teenagers surrounded them and threw rocks at them. The man was arrested.

Also, a 20-year-old woman was hurt when someone dropped a metal barrel onto her head from the station's staircase. 2d girl surrenders in youth's beating A second suspect in the beating of an 11-year-old girl on the Despite push, few ride E. Boston ferry I St i fit fa 1 1 Rev. Elocho Mlonglecha (left) of the Saidi-Wa-Bwissa are attempting to International Gospel Church and Zairian opposition leader Albert aid 200,000 Zairians trapped on the shores of Lake Tanganyika. Plea for Zairian refugees number of passengers has continued to fall.

Where the average daily ridership was 95 in October of 1995, it fell to 37 in October of 1996, according to MBTA figures. The 40-foot-long modified crew boat called Alison makes 42 trips a day between downtown Boston and East Boston, most of them during rush hour in the morning and afternoon. Boston Harbor Cruisers, which has a contract with the MBTA to run the service, staffs the boat with two people: a captain and an assistant. In October, they outnumbered the passengers most of the time. Ferry Captain Paul Christian says he believes the ferry service will catch on, given time.

"Here we're competing against the train," he says. "And there's no parking. But we never miss a day, rain or shine, and we make sure we're on time on every trip so people can count on us." The nine passengers who rode the ferry on five trips it made during a 50-minute period last Friday morning enjoyed the journey. "I get to work feeling calm and relaxed," said Louise Bowler, who took the 8:20 a.m. boat and walked to State Street to board the Orange Line subway to Lemuel Shattuck Hospital in Jamaica Plain, where she is doing an internship.

Still, there apparently aren't enough people like Bowler who are willing to use multiple forms of public transportation to get to work. The MBTA, which agreed to continue the service for three months, may finally pull the plug at the end of November. Brian Pedro, press secretary for the MBTA, said the state was reviewing the situation. Modica and the mayor refuse to give up the fight. Asked how she could support government funding for something that served so few people, Modica said she didn't believe ridership was "too terribly bad." She continued to it would increase with better promotion.

At her urging, the city's portation Department contracted to pay her former campaign manager, Nick Lamberti, $2,000 to market the ferry. Nucci, meanwhile, said it was time to lay a bad idea to rest "It's time to put up the white flag and say this idea isn't worth another dime," he said. Thomas C. Palmer Jr. of the Globe staff contributed to this report FERRY Continued from Page Bl tweejn downtown Boston and Chariestown, but that run has a captive market because the subway does not run to Chariestown.

There are: four subway stops in East Boston. The one in Maverick Square is only a few hundred yards from Lewis Mall, where the ferry docks. Passengers taking MBTA ferries from Chariestown and Quincy to Boston can park for free nearby. Modica, the East Boston ferry's staunchest advocate, opposes public parking near the dock because many of her constituents fear an influx of commuters from the North Shore. So the only parking available near the East Boston ferry is along Lewis Mall, -where about 14 cars can fit comfortably.

Colleen Kloster, who takes the boat over to her job running a Duck Tour in Boston, says she will probably switch to the subway unless she can find parking more easily. In the summer, she walks 30 minutes each way to the dock, she said, but she would like to drive when the weather gets cold and darkness falls earlier. "The last two times I drove here I couldn't find free parking and ended up with parking tickets," she said. "The ferry is wonderful. It's such a calm way of getting into work.

But the ridership will never increase if you don't have parking." Pointing to the low ridership figures, the MBTA was ready to cancel the ferry service last summer. But Menino and Modica intervened and a group of East Boston residents rallied to save it as a return to the Neighborhood's glory days. A ferry ran from East Boston to downtown from 1875 to 1952. They blamed the low ridership on inadequate promotion by the state. I "You can have a good product, but if you don't sell it, it won't be successful," Modica said.

the leadership of the MBTA backed down and agreed to Continue the service for another three months. The state spent $20,000 on a Jnarketing blitz putting up posters On MBTA trains and buses, advertising the service in business magazines and East Boston publications and mailing every East Boston resident information about the ferry. Coupons offer rides at half price: 50 tents each way. In spite of the campaign, the r'4 GLOBE STAFF PHOTO MICHAEL ROBINSON-CHAVEZ said. "They think they are Hutu.

They are killing indiscriminately." The refugees live in the open on the peninsula, Rev. Mlongecha said, and have used up whatever food was available in small, overrun fishing villages. A friend from Tanzania, the pastor added, told him last week that more than 100 children a day may begin dying soon if relief supplies do not arrive. Kee, of New Life Church, said the challenge of helping these Zairians is formidable but not impossible. "It seems insurmountable, but I know the initiative of relief work," she said.

"I was in Rwanda twice last year, and I know how efficiently people were working there." Samaritan's Purse, a humanitarian agency based in North Carolina, is currently aiding the Rwanda refugees and has been contacted about the needs in Zaire. Rev. Mlongecha said he is hopeful that the group, which is run by evangelist Billy Graham's son, Franklin, will provide assistance soon. Although US forces may soon arrive in an international peacekeeping force, Kee said, many Americans do not pay attention to African troubles, seeing them as an internal problem. "I have many people who tell me, That's the Africans, that's the way they deal with Kee said.

"I've tried for 30 years to communicate otherwise." After the caller told AP in Boston that the group Vegan Supremacy had made the bomb threat, she said, 'Fur is then hung up. SB ZAIRE Continued from Page Bl that make escape impossible for all but a few. Meanwhile, international relief groups have been unable to bring much food, medicine or temporary housing to the Zairians caught on the Ubwari peninsula, Rev. Mlonge-cha said. And if death by starvation is one possibility, he added, so is a Tutsi advance on the area.

"The result would be genocide," said Rev. Mlongecha, a native of Zaire. To help ease the suffering, Rev. Mlongecha is contacting churches and humanitarian organizations in search of aid and publicity. He plans to return to Zaire this week, both to assess the situation and to bring 70 pounds of medicine donated by the New Life Church in Allston.

"It's just a drop in the bucket, of course, but it's a beginning," said Judith Kee, a New Life Church elder who taught nursing in Zaire for 20 years. Rev. Mlongecha said the refugees have become victims of Tutsi rebellion in eastern Zaire, and also the collapse of Zairian government under ailing President Mobutu Sese Seko, who has prostate cancer. The pastor said the rebels are aided by regular soldiers from Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda who are striving to expand Tutsi influence in the unstable Central African region. MBTA's Red Line has surrendered, MBTA police said.

The victim was attacked by about 15 students at Ashmont station at about 2 p.m. Wednesday, MBTA police said. Yesterday, 14-year-old Dorchester girl became the second suspect to surrender to MBTA police. On Saturday, a 13-year-old girl from Dorchester turned herself in, MBTA police said, i Both girls were released to their parents and will be arraigned today in Dorchester Juvenile Court. 4 hurt in hit-run; police seek driver Police are still searching for the driver who struck four people, one a pregnant woman, and fled in Jamaica Plain Saturday night.

The blue 1979 Chevrolet Malibu hit people at 1309 Washington St. in Egles-ton Square at 11 p.m. as they left church. Jazmin Munoz, 19, of Matta-pan, who is pregnant, and her husband, Jose Munoz, 31, were treated at Brigham and Women's Hospital. David Munoz, 18, and Migdalia Flo-res of Boston were treated at Beth Israel Hospital.

Police seek leads in dumpster find Essex County District Attorney Kevin M. Burke said yesterday that there are no new leads in last week's discovery of blood-soaked bags in a Danvers dumpster. The most recent reports said that there was not enough evidence for investigators to tell whether any crime had been committed. Six plastic bags containing blood and human hair were found stuffed inside a gym bag by an employee of Liberty Car Wash last Thursday afternoon. Danvers police ask anyone with information to call (508) 774-1213.

Adams book theft is still a mystery Quincy police have no new leads on the theft of several rare books from the Adams National Historic Site in Quincy last week. Police and FBI had hoped that the books might surface at an antiquarian book festival held over the weekend at the Hynes Convention Center, but had not recovered the volumes yesterday, police said. A $10,000 reward has been offered for the return of the books. Water pipe break floods Cranston CRANSTON, R.I. A broken water main flooded city streets yes-.

terday, submerging cars and forcing the evacuation of an elderly housing complex. No one was hurt, but an 81-year-old woman was hospitalized. Oaklawn Avenue, a major thoroughfare and the location of the 5'2-foot main, resembled a river after the 11:50 a.m. break, with muddy water gushing past homes and businesses. 1 Ldke RWANDA Kivw Kigali Lake Victoria BURUNDI 1 fGitega Ubwari: Peninsula iiikAM inn nnrt 7 -virion "IIC1C Id) 1 4 y.j refugees are stranded.

Kigoma TANZANIA Lake 1 Tanganyika 0 Miles GLOBE STAFF MAP In 1994, Tutsi rebels in Rwanda ousted that country's Hutu regime after more than 500,000 Tutsi and their supporters had been killed. The conflict led to the exodus of 1.1 million refugees, many of whom are now returning because Zairian rebels have shut down the camps. To the south, the Zairians stranded on the Ubwari peninsula are in grave danger because they physically resemble the Hutu, Rev. Mlongecha said. "We fear that the hostile forces are pursuing them and may kill them there," the pastor ists have debated about the ethics of harming humans with their protest activities.

"Most have tended to say, We shouldn't be harming sentient beings and humans are sentient beings, Rowan said. The bomb threat that disrupted the fur show yesterday kept vendors and patrons outside for about 90 minutes, police said. A Christmas crafts show under way at the World Trade Center was also interrupted. Globe librarian Marc Shech contributed to this report Bomb threat empties World Trade Center furs show ported receiving threats from Vegan Supremacy in the past, Gabriel said, but had never had a situation where evacuation was necessary. Andrew Rowan, director of Tufts University's Center for Animals and Public Policy and an authority on the animal rights movement, said he had never heard of Vegan Supremacy.

Vegans adhere to a strict vegetarian diet, eating neither meat nor animal products. They also do not wear wool, leather, silk or furs. Rowan said he was surprised that an animal rights group had made a bomb threat. In recent years, he said, animals rights activ- BOMB THREAT Continued from Page Bl Estrin about the bomb threat, Estrin said that at the end of that phone call, which lasted less than 10 seconds, the woman said, "Fur is murder," and hung up. Estrin said that earlier in the day, another reporter at AP had received a call from someone claiming io be with the Animal Liberation Front.

That caller said that the group had vandalized some fur coats at the World Trade Center fur show. I EstrinNsaid AP had planned to try to fur show later to check out the vandalism claim. Gabriel said he could not confirm any incidents of vandalism at the show. In August, the Animal Liberation Front claimed responsibility for using red paint to vandalize the Brook-line home of Arnold Rosenkranz, a furrier with I.J. Fox.

The group has also been involved in other animal-rights protests, including the release of minks from a Berkshires mink farm, vandalism of a meat-packing company in Virginia and the destruction of a mink testing lab in Michigan. Organizers of the fur show re- I.