Daily News from New York, New York • 339

DAILTNEWS, FRIDAY, MAY 1976 is Insurance Firm 's Plk By ROBERT GELINE A major international insurance company signed on the dotted line yesterday to buy a historic office tower in lower Manhattan and keep its 2,000 headquarters employ 1 3r Pfa 5 ft! I -A? a i es in the city. In a noon contract signing in Mayor Beame's office, Maurice R. Rreenberg, President of American International Group, handed over a check for $800,000 to a representative of the Cities Service Co. of Tulsa, to cement the deal. The check was a down payment on the $15 million purchase price for the 66-story Cities Service Tower at 70 Pine St.

The 44-year-old art-deco skyscraper will become the company's new headquarters in a phased-move over the coming year from two downtown buildings it also owns. The skyscraper has been largely vacant for several years. Announces Study Economic Development Administrator Alfred E. Eisenpreis used the contract signing to announce a plan for a study by his agency of the state's insurance laws. The goal of the study, Eisenpreis said, is to seek ways to liberalize what he and Green-berg called "restrictive" laws and regulations.

Insurers like American International Group, a holding company with operations in 130 coun-cies with large corporations tries around the world, are now discouraged from writing policies with large corporations because of a spate of complex state requirements, according to Eisenreis and Greenberg. They said the lack of flexibility that those laws created were a major reason that many large insurers have left New York in recent years. Greenberg said his conmpany's decision to stay here was made after a detailed study on relocating out of the city. That study concluded that dispersing the company's headquarters lo three locations in Connecticut or New Jersey, New Hampshire and Delaware "would not meet the company's objectives for growth and profits," he said. News photo by Jim Hugiies Oleg Popov's clowning translates into laughs for Margarita Terekhova (1.) and Cicely Tyson at Lincoln Center.

News photo by Frank Russo Alfred Eisenpreis and Mayor Beame look on as Maurice Greenberg signs certificate for purchase of Cities Service Tower. arlem Hall In a ri Crime Watch Forming Want to work your own hours helping to reduce crime in the hallways and on the grounds of your city housing development? The Housing Authority tenant patrol is enlisting volunteers 14 years of age and older to set up anti-crime observer teams in the city's 200 housing developments. Volunteers are insured and equipped with walkie-talkies dispensed by the Housing Authority. For more information, call 6030 or 433-4172. City Imt Divert U.S.

ieot Mi By MICHAEL ORESKES Mayor Beame's financial plan was thrown off balance by as much as S-S5 million 5'esterday when Carla Hills, federal secretary of housing and urban development, rejected a City Hall appeal for permission to divert federal rent subsidies intended for the poor and the elderly. i 7T- 7 7TT lhe secretary decision was regional director of the Depart- Brushing aside the mayor thg cWx Qf tw weeks of con. ment of Housing and Urban pleas that the city itself was troversy over the Beame plan, Development, desperately need of the feder- The mavor's reouet was to v-s al funds, Mrs. Hills ruled that 'hlch had been bitterly opposed peJ5 I federal renl the Beame proposal would have some tenant groups and by SUDsidies to support city and subverted the intentions of Samuel J. Lefrak, the city's state housing developments.

The federal housing legislation and largest private landlord. federal monev would have filial robbed thousands of poor people The decision was conveyed in a pap in the Housing Auth n-- of their freedom, under the pro-' a two-paragraph letter to the itv's budget, a gap caused bv gram, to choose a place to live. 1 mayor from S. William Green, cuts in citv and state aid Down in Washington, especially at 1600 Pennsylvania detente has become an inoperative word. Maybe it's moribund in Moscow, too.

No matter. It is alive and well in Harlem. Cicely Tyson and Margarita Terekhova saw to that yesterday. Cicely, who had become one of America's premier talents, met Margarita in Leningrad last year while filming "The Bluebird," an adaptation of Maurice Maeterlinck's famous fantasy. On Wedenesday, Margarita along with Oleg- Popov, another member of the cast, and four other Russians associated with the production arrived here for a look at the Bi Apple after visiting Los Angeles and the capital.

"These are some friends of mine with whom I visited for a whole year I would not dare bring them to New York without bringing them up here," said Cicely, introducing Margarita and company to the troupe of the Dance Theater of Harlem, at 466 W. 152d St. Cicely and her guests arrived at the theatere after a red- PETER COUTROS carpet tour from the Waldorf-Astoria conducted by the aptly named Red Carpet Associates, Inc. With James Stevens easing his bus through the congested traffic and a bilingual guide pointing out such landmarks as st. Patrick's Cathedral, the Russian Tea Room, the New York Hilton, Lincol Center, the Radio City Music Hall (where "Bluebird" opens soon), the Cathedral of St.

John the Divine and Columbia University, the touring Soviets got a good taste of our town. Now they were seated the rehearsal hall, watching as Karel Shook, co-director of the dance theatre, put his troupe through its arduous paces as Tania Leon set the tempo with a Chopin piano concerto. "We must do something special for our guests," announced shook, after the sound of snapping camera shutters had subsided. A brief huddle ensued and although they could not accommodate Margarita's desire for "something modern," the troupe did the next best thing for their guests; the neoclassical "Agon," choreographed by Balanchine to music by Stravinsky. Joseph Wyatt soloed, as did Virginia Johnson.

There followed a pas "de deuix by Susan Lovelle and Derek Williams and, soon, the entire company was spinning, stretching, jumping, straining on their toes and, when it was over, Margarita's clapping could be heard over the rest of the applause. In a reciprocal gesture, the dancers applauded their guests. Last night, the visiting Russians were taken to see "The Wiz," the long-running musical, and after that, Margarita had a date at a disco. Next week, the touring Russians will be back home telling their friends what dancing fools we Americanskis are, how we dont do anything from morning till night but dance, dance, dance. Which is a lot better than playing taps Cast In Files as Ladies' Man By DONALD FLYNN Aaron Burr, whose place in history seems fixed by his killing of Alexander in a duel in 1804, was also something of a ladies' man, according to musty divorce papers still on file in Manhattan Supreme Court.

Jack Ueeson, composer and Columbia University professor, after that Carriage, said Beeson, The judge added that Beon and that led to the divorce. whos MacDowe profe530r of' Under a rule dating back to music at Columbia, and Ha-ri- 1847, divorce papers are sealed librettist of "Fiddler on the to the general public except by an order of the court. But Countv and Broadway librettist Sheldon Harnick succeeded yesterday in gaining access to the minutes of Burr's divorce trial in 1836. They plan to use the testimony in the writing of a chamber opera about Burr. According to Beeson, Burr's wife, Eliza Bowen, won the divorce on grounds of adultery.

Beeson said Burr married Mrs. Bowen, a widow in her 50's, when he was 77. But Burr had "many affairs with other ladies" Roof," cannot "be said to be seandalmongering. The artist is as entitled to source material as the historian." Burr was vice president under President Thomas Jefferson when Burr killed Hamilton in a duel on July 11, 1804, at Wee-hawken, NJ. Hamilton had been Clerk Norman Goodman asked for a court ruling.

Justice Martin Stecher decided yesterday that releasing the papers to Beeson now, 140 years later, will hurt no one, since the basic information is already well known in literature and history. U.S. secretary of the treasury..