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PAILN.EWS, 1978 Noontime Sing-Gut City Reens' ''Bid in Wages Benefits Tly MICHAEL ORESKES Mayor Koch's chief labor negotiator yesterday flatly rejected demands by tht Patrolmen's Benevolent Association for a 10,000 fib kc i 1 fhl, til iff -r 4v kv- i ill l-S j.s&t i I if inrt-NV I j5 Mvs- i till- if itf ir WWr 1IMT' riiifeBi WWTiiimi miw-i Vifi1nf rii r-Hifitrnffn linlil lfammmir-Yto' w.v.,Ji increase wages and fringes. "Absolutely not," said the negotiator, Deputy Mayor Basil Paterson. "It would strain New York City to the point where it would obviously push us over the brink (into bankruptcy)." Paterso.i made his statement after a brief session st which the city formally opened negotiations with the police union. PBA President Samuel DeMilia reaffirmed his plan to push for big increases to bring New York's cops, who now receive a base pay of about up to the $21,000 level of police in Nassay County and other suburbs. The union also wants more than 86,000 in fringe improvements to match the gains of Long Island cops.

"We are negotiating for status, to put us back to where we were." De-Milian said. "Nine years ago. we were paid as No. 1. Now we've digressed to about No.

27." Attacks Gotbaum DeMilia laced into municipal labor leader Victor Gotbaum. who has criticized the cops tor beraking with the coalition of city worker? that is nego tiating with the city. "I don't want to negotiate for Got-baum's union," said DeMilia. "I don't want to negotiate for anyone but police officers." Gotbaum's claim that cops will end up with exactly the same amount of money as workers who stay in the coalition amounts to "a conspiracy to negotiate our contract," DeMilia charged. "He (Gotbaum) should stop negoti- Imlicl Woman In Suliwav Push A Manhattan grand jury yesterday indicted for attempted murder the woman who allegedly pushed another woman into the path of a Seventh Avenue IRT subway train at the Times Square station.

Charged was Carolyn Speetor, 29, of 116 W. 238th Bronx, who. according to police, pushed Terese Ko-zlowsky March 8. Kozlowsky reportedly stepped on Spector's foot, precipitating a shouting match on the station platform. Kozlowsky was rescued by a Port Authority cop.

ating for the city," DeMilia said, "and start negotiating for his members." Paterson carefully steered clear of the dispute between labor leaders, repeating that is the city's intention to treat all workers "equitably" but adding that it is possible that cops could end with more, less or the same amount of money as everybody else. Richard Hartman. the Mineola. L.I., lawyer hired by the PBA after his success in winning big raises for Nassau and Suffolk cops, agreed with Paterson. "It could wind up we get more, it could wind up we get less." he said.

"Our position has always been that we aie going to negotiate a police contract not a New York City employes contract." The two sides did not actually exchange any demands yesterday. The little give and take that did occur was done for th3 benefit of television cameras in a crowded hallway of the Office of Collective Bargaining. 250 Broadway. Another meeting was scheduled for next Monday. The city resumes talks this afternoon with the coalition of city unions.

The talks broke off Friday because of the union's anger at Koch's demands for more than 60 cuts in worker benefits. "We've agreed to modifv our demands," Paterson said. "We assume they're prepared to make some News photo by Jack Smith Members of William Jewell College Concert Choir of Liberty, entertain noontime crowd at Rockefeller Center yesterday. The 45-member choir has sung throughout the United States and Europe. Finds 4 i.

iiver Spans Heed Fix Fast By ARTHUR BROWNE The city's transportation commissioner warned yesterday that, without major reconstruction, gaping holes would develop in the outer roadways of the Williamsburg Bridge within three years. He disclosed that cables have been problems, and the Hunters Point Ave. bridge in Long Island City, which has been closed for several years because of rusted surface gratings and weakened crossbeams. The most dramatic of the report's findings, however, centered on the four East River spans. They also were singled out Monday by the City Planning Commission as high-priority capital spending projects.

On the Manhattan Bridge, which carries 75,000 vehicles in addition to four subway lines, a combination of aging and uneven stress loads forced a reduction in train speeds. Higher speeds cause the bridge roadway to twist too much for complete safety, Ameruso said. snapping on the Brooklyn Bridge and that the city has ordered subway trains traveling over the Manhattan Bridge to reduce speed because of twisting in the roadway. Personally inspecting the 75-year-old Williamsburg bridge, Commissioner Anthony Ameruso admitted that its deck has been so poorly maintained for decades that soon holes will be so deep and large that the East River will be clearly visible through them. "It could be thre years, maybe five years at the most," said Ameruso, "but we'll definitely see holes in the roadway soon if we don't make repairs." And, warns Ameruso, the condition of the Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queensborough bridges is just as bad.

All were described as needing extensive modernization and rehabilitation in a recent Transportation Department study of the 1337 bridges and overpasses in the city. That report also found that there are 13 waterway bridges in even worse condition, needing major reconstruction or even complete replacement. Those bridges include the 300-foot City Island Bridge, on which speeds have been reduced because of serious structural New Jersey Lottery Pick It: 567 Straight Payoff: $211.50 Connecticut Lottery Daily: 372 fftl Bm Air Alternative to aath iraroie arey penalty: scheduled to take up the death penalty bill today. The Democratic dominated Assembly is slated to begin debate on the bill tomorrow. A two-thirds majority is needed in both houses to override the governor's veto.

The outcome of an override vote is in doubt, with one or two votes expected to make the difference either way. Although the polls show the majority of voters in the state election year favors restoration of the death penalty, Carey has vigorously opposed the meas ure on moral grounds. Carey not only has promised to veto the measure but also has vowed that he will commute the sentence of anyone condemned to death. By MICHAEL PATTERSON Albany (News Bureau) On the eve of an emotional debate on the death penalty, Gov. Carey submitted legislation yesterday that would allow a jury to recommend life imprisonment without paiole for convicted murderers as an alternative to capital punishment.

The death penalty bill is virtually assured of passage, but Carey's action appeared to be timed to influence the effort to override his promised veto of the measure. "Any student of the law knows that just and vigorous execution of the criminal law, not the execution of indi viduals, is the greatest deterrent to crime," Carey said. The latest Carey bill, which follows by two weeks the introduction oi the governor's over-all crime package including life imprDnment for violent crime, three time losers would add to the penal law the new crime of "ag-avated murder." Under the measure, a second jury proceeding would be required for sentencing a defendant for aggravated murder. The jury recommends a life sentence without parole or a life sentence with parole eligibility after 15 to 25 years. The legislation also lists several "mitigating factors" which could be considered by a jury, including the lack of a violent criminal record, impaired mental capacity, unusual dures and participation in a crime committed by another.

The categories of homicide considered as aggravated murder under the bill include: Killing a police officer on duty. Killing a state or local correction officer on duty. Murder committed by a prison inmate serving a life sentence. Murder by torture. Any murder committed during a robbery, burglary, kidnaping, arson, first-degree rape, first-degree sodomy and first-degree sexual abuse.

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