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Me Wants to (Change 'Dog Day' to gunning down one of Wojtowicz' two partners and included the bank robber's holding seven hostages for 14 hours before being captured. Always Home for Weekend "Even when he was fooling around down in the village," Mrs. Wojtowicz recalls, "it was always us for the weekend, us for the holidays. We were his family we couldn't live with each other and we couldn't live without each other." Wojtowicz received $7,500 for use of his story in the film, which cost $3.8 million to produce and grossed $56 million. A third of that small sum went for his friend's sex operation.

He insists that his role was distorted in the film but, typically, he gets maddest when he talks about how his wife was depicted. "It gave the impression she was to blame," he says. "Baloney, my wife's a sweet kid." By MARTIN GOTTLIEB Less than 24 hours after committing one of the most bizarre and bungled stickups in bank history all so that his homosexual boy friend could pay for a sex change operation John Wo.jtowicz sat down in his cell at the old federal lockup on West St. and wrote a letter to his wife. It went on for pages, but there were two sentences that Carmen Wojtowicz never foreot: "I'm sorry I have done this and I will never do it again.

Please torsive me." For the last five years Mrs. Wojtowicz. an heavy-set. 30-year-old woman, took her husband at his word. She traveled hundreds of miles to visit him in federal pens in Terre Haute, and Lewisburg.

and she received scores of letters from him that spared her no grisly detail about prison life. There were passages in which he told of being beaten and raped and of his cell's having been set on fire. Sentence Is Reduced Now. in the wake of a court action last Friday that climaxed with a tearful, eloquent statement by Wojtowicz in Brooklyn Federal Court, the man whom Al Pacino played in the movie "Dog Day Afternoon" may be released from prison before the end of the year as a result of the sentence reduction granted by Judge Thomas Piatt. And the one thing the bisexual former bank teller hopes to do is put a happy ending on one of the city's weirdest love stories, by rejoining his wife and two children in a section of Cast New York.

Brooklyn, that has practically crumbled during his half decade in prison. "The crime was a crazy, insane act that I'd never do again." Wojtowicz said in a telephone interview from the federal Manhattan Correctional Center. I'm just looking forward to going back to my wife and establishing a long-term, stable relationship." Marriage Was Stormy According to Mrs. Wojtowicz, It was not always that way in their 10-year marriage. In 1969 he left her and found his way into homosexual circles.

The couple tried to get together two years later, taking a second honeymoon in the same loom of the same hotel in the Poconos as their first. It did not work out. By 1972 he had met a man named Ernest Aron, and other men who rented rooms with Wojtowicz at a boarding house on 10th St. As Wojtowicz tells It, when Aron wanted money for a sex change operation, he decided to rob a bank for him. "I was deeply in love with him at the time." he recalled a few days ago.

The robbery, at a Chase Manhattan branch in Flatbush. ended with an FBI man's Fewer Pupils, More Adults in Classes Byrne Sets Up Youth Job Unit Gov. Byrne yesterday annojnced the formation of a cabinet-level Committee on Youth Unemployment in urban areas to help find jobs with state government and private business for young people. A spokesman for Byrne said the jobs probably wouldn't be full-time, and might include fixing roads leading to state institutions. Chaired by Energy Commissioner Joel R.

Jacobson. the committee is to report to Byrne in two to three weeks. The unemployment rate for teenagers seeking jobs was 22Tc last year for whites, and 38.1"r for blacks. Adult education pays its own way, that's the best reason for communities to welcome the concept," Kimmel said. "We are self-sustaining." Next Friday and Saturday at the Bergen Mall in Paramus an adult education exhibit will be presented explaining how to sign up for classes ranging from belly dancing to administering government contracts.

Among the participating school districts will be Fair Lawn, Fort Lee, Tenafly. Midland Park. Saddle Brook, Maywood. Ridgefield Park. Hackensack, River Dell, Lyndhurst, Ridaewood and community enrolls 7.000 adults in after-hours education programs.

Kimmel. president of the Bergen County Council for Adult and Continuing Education, said statewide there were 530.000 adults enrolled last year. He said adult enrollment has increased 10 each year. 200,000 Nongrads Many of the adult students go back to school in pursuit of a high school equivilancy diploma, said Kimmel. who added that in Bergen County alone there are more than 200.000 adults over 25 who did not finish high school.

Last year across the state 18.000 such diplomas were awarded. i Glen Rock. Hy PATRICK CLARK A declining enrollment in Bergen County public schools 25,000 students in the Iat five years has given new emphasis to education for adults an dambitious plans for redesigning vacant facitilies into (-(immunity education centers, county schools superintendent David Adler said yesterday 'We are opening the doors to parents." he said, noting that adult enrollment last year in 22 of tiie county's 76 school districts exceeds 80 000. Adler said there is a statewide trend toward fuller use of school buildings, and he termed the development a "community school concept." Barry Semple. state director of the Bqreau of Adult.

Continuing Community Education, said public school buildings in Elizabeth and Atlantic City al-readyhhave been transformed into activity centers for education, recreation, health, social and cultural services. Houses Dental Clinic In Elizabeth, at fieorge Washington School, nearly adult education clashes are held at night, he said. The school also houses a dental clinic, a daycare program, a pre school program and a cultural arts center for community groups who rehearse and perioral in the auditorium, he added. David Kimmel of Fair Lawn said his Schools Face Teacher Strikes, Busing Strife (Continued from page 5) strike, but only on a sporadic, one-day-a-week basis. "I have been authorized to call a strike without notice," Reid said.

"And your guess is as good as mine if we will strike when school is supposed to begin." Concern for Children The union president said the once-a-week strikes were planned because the teachers could not afford an extended strike and the sporadic plan would hurt the children the least. Hp Kllirl (Via i advertisement in which it offered to pay substitute teachers $50 a day to replace teachers who struck. He charged tht board was trying to destroy the union. With 245 teachers in the system, Reid noted, the board would be willing to pay $10,000 to $12,000 a day to break the strike, "And we are only 875,000 apart," he said. Others Still Negotiating In Bayonne, parents took to the street yesterday in a March past City Hall to protest the desegration plan which had been approved by the Board of Education by a vote of five to four.

Although there are many other school districts throughout the state which have not yet completed contract negotiations for the new school year, a spokesman for the New Jersey Education Association said no other teacher group had voted to strike. He said that of Bergen's 76 school districts, 13 had not reached contracts with the teachers, and at least three were still under negotiation in Passaic. Among communities throughout the state still negotiating were Bridgewater-Ra-ritan, Parsippany-Troy Hills, Mah-wah. Bridgeton, Belvidere and Woods-town Pilegrove. uiaiu nau iaKen out an Geflefiust IF YOU ARE HOLDihG AN A FREE DINNER ai TOOTS St-DR Ab'TOPUB RlVEflBOAT STEER PALACE or 25 other famous Manhattan restaurants Due to the Tremendous Response EXPIRATION OATE HAS BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL OCTOBER 23RD.I977 More Than 100 Courses That Can Chanqe The Course Of Your Life CENTER FOR LIFELONG LEARNING HUNTER COLLEGE For free brochure send your name and address to HUNTER COLLEGE Center tor Lifelong Learning 466 Lexington Avenue, New York.

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