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JIMMY BRESLIN 3 CO t5 a lovely as always, began hanging Israelis. Begin's gang took a British sergeant and hanged him. It was horrible, but the British stopped hanging Israelis. There is no way I can understand the Begin of today. He is not a guerrilla.

Guerrillas don't fight in tanks. Begin is a man who operates not with passion but by initialing papers that send American-made planes out to kill women and children. And his disease, the banality of evil, is not restricted. On Friday, on St. Patrick's Day in New York, I was asked to come up with some money to buy guns for the Catholics in Northern Ireland.

I wouldn't discuss it. A man who happened to be Protestant was driving his son to school outside Belfast recently, and the car blew up with an IRA bomb. Later, dynamite was found attached to the motor of a school bus crowded with children that happened to be Protestant. These acts were committed because the IRA bureaucracy felt they were supposed to be committed. The IRA bureaucracy needed to balance its books after an attack by the Protestant underground bureaucracy on some poor devil walking home from work.

Here in New York, as I walked away from the fund raisers, a man said to me. "What are you crying about? Israel does it and we send them another billion." So as he arrives today, Menachem Begin no longer is a hero of oppression. He appears to have lost his chance for greatness. He has become just a stubborn old bureaucrat who has no difficulty in having expensive tools 'ised to kill back some women and children living in huts. The relaxing thing about Israel's Begin is that he has the atomic bomb in his closet.

(Continued from page 4 American congressmen, including Joe Moakley of Boston and Jim Wright of Texas, the House majority leader, spoke to both Sadat and Begin. They instinctively went to the core: Begin had to give something to Sadat so that Sadat's trip to Israel wouldn't leave him weakened in the Arab world. Begin acted as if he knew the game. But he gave Sadat nothing to go home "with. And the days ran into weeks and the weeks now have become months and now the Sadat-Begin summit meeting looks like it was nothing more than Glassboro.

on sand. On the plane ride home from Tel Aviv, I read Begin's book about imprisonment in a Siberian slave labor camp. He wrote ol his ability to suffer in a tone that was terribly familiar to me. His were the same words of every old Irish gunman I've ever read of or met, men who went on hunger strikes and would die rather than take a sip of water. They had incredible stiength.

But at the end. when called upon to do something for their country more meaningful, to negotiate and compromise, they were incapable Why prove what I am? I do not compromise. I must break or be broken. On the plane from Tel Aviv, a man asked me. "How do you like the book?" I said to him.

"It's a wonderful bock. I just hope Begin is not wlmt I think he is." T'ie Banality of Kwl He is. What started out as numan bfcome inhuman. Anybody can understand the Mena-chem Bein who blew up the King David Hotel to help found a nation. The same for his actions when the British, Tram Is Dangling in a Deficit (the tramway now has about 35.000 riders a week) will cut last year's deficit in half.

In 1977, the state- appropriated $2 million to cover the expenses of the entire Roosevelt Island project, including the tramway. The UDC does not itself operate the aerial line. The agency hired the firm that built the tramway V.S.L. Corp. to run it.

V.S.L. is charging the UDC $200,000 a year for running the tramway until 1980, when the fee will drop to $165,000. Alter V.S.L. got the operations contract, it hired away a top UDC engineer, David Ozerkis, to run the tram. There have been numerous complaints of overcrowding on the tram cabins, which are built to hold 125 people.

But lately, rush-hour riders say, no more than 90 have been allowed aboard. Last April, 70 riders were stranded 310 feet in the air in a tram for 90 minutes because of an electrical malfunction. Ozerkis says the tramway is equipped with several emergency power backup systems. There is also a device in each cabin that can lower one person at a time in a sack through a trap door in the floor. (Continued from page J) premium costs between $90,000 and $130,000.

Robert T. Dormer, acting UDC president, told The News that he hoped the Insurance premiums for the tramway would cost "under $700,000" in 1973. "Insurance premiums are excessive for any kind of public transportation facility," Dormer said. "The UDC has no choice but to provide adequate insurance at insurance market rates." However, the state Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which runs the city's subways and buses, does not go into the market for insurance. Rather, tiie agency insures itself.

A spokesman said that the MTA's self-insurance program covers each "occurrence" or accident up to S2 million. Coverage above that, for a catastrophic accident, is provided by Lloyds of London at a nominal rate. Option of Self-Insurance The UDC also has the option of self-insurance. But the official comment from the state agency was that it would be "irresponsible" to do so. since the UDC would be unable to pay a major claim.

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