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DAILY NEWS, SATURDAY MARCH 17. 1973 Movj the plan mil work Here are the highlight of Mayor Koch' program i Hire 68 7A cops immediately. Cops on all subway platforms from 4 p.m. till 2 a.m. Cops on all trains from 6 p.m.

till 2 a.m. Almost all 2,900 TA cops into uniform. Free subway passes to 40,000 cops and court officers. City cops to check subway stations. By ARTHUR BROWNE and NEAL HIRSCHFELD Mayor Koch unveiled a $10 million, emergency plan last night to fight subway crime, including the assignment of uniformed cops to almost all trains and platforms during peak crime hours, and a return to the practice of letting cops ride free on.

the subways. "We have to make it clear that we will not allow thugs and punks to run this city," Koch said at City Hall. "We will not allow marauders to run rampant. There is no other way to do it other than having a guy in blue." Koch said that the city would spend whatever money is necessary to guarantee the safety of subway riders. City officials said that sum would be about $10 million from now through fiscal 1980.

Although the Koch proposal' is dramatic, it is not new, a Transit Authority spokesman said. In 1965 a transit cop was assigned to every train and every station. This assignment proved successful in reducing crime but had to be curtailed when the fiscal crisis hit in early 1975." All-day emergency meeting The mayor laid out his plan at 5 p.m. after an all-day emergency meeting with Police Commissioner Robert McGuire, Transit Authority Police Chief Sanford Garelik, Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, Metropolitan Transportation Authority chairman Harold Fisher, TA executive officer John deRoos and Deputy Mayor for Criminal Justice Herbert Sturz. At the heart of the plan is a blue- Jk I it running between 6 p.m.

and 2 a.m. daily. Virtually all 2,900 TA cops will be in uniform, with only communications units and decoy squads in plainclothes. The city's 40.000 peace officers including city cops. Housing Authority cops, correction officers and court officers will ride theysubways free.

They need only show their badges. Beginning at midnight last night, city cops started making routine stops inside subway stations as part of their regular patrol. TA chief Garelik recalled that in print to mobilize more cops in uniform and in civilian clothes and put them on station platforms and in subway trains at peak crime hours. Here's how the mobilization shapes up: Sixtyight TA cops will be hired "immediately," starting with laid-off cops on the "preferred" list. Starting Monday, at least one uniformed cop most of them TA cops will be on every subway station platform from 4 p.m.

to 2 a.m. daily. Also starting Monday, acuformed cop will be on each of the 600 trains News pfwto by Tom Wioraster Mayor Koch promises to spare no expense to make subways safe. Police Commissioner Robert McGuire listens 1965 Mayor Wagner combatted a subway crime wave with an army of subway blue and it was credited with aa on page 12, col. I) subwsiy, he mines hlhi hiitk mmmn fjs vSf 05" i if! Violence part of his silent world! By GENE SPAGNOLI The subways, with all their noise, played a big part in the life and death of James Pacheco, 23, a deaf-mute whose world knew no For Pacheco, or Mudo, who was stabbed to death on a subway train Thursday, helped found the deaf branch of the Crazy Homicides gang whose home base was the 14th St.

IRT station. Specialty is arson The deaf gang, not all of whom were mutes, constitute the Fifth Division of the Crazy Homicides, a gang that specializes in arson and numbers about 800 members in Brooklyn and Queens. While the Fifth's activities included nrany social events for its 250 members, there is in the gang an element more given to violence Pacheco lost leadership in 1975 when he was sentenced to 8 years in prison for the rape of two teenagers on a subway in the Bronx. While some members of the FX come from middle-class families, refit of them are from the ghetto where, as a writer who visited with the gang and wrote an article to appear on April 1 in the Sunday News Magazine said, "being deaf is one step behind last place." Gang is multiethnic The gang is multiethnic and has at least one black member who quit the Black Spades to join the Fifth. When Pacheco got out of prison in November, he found that W.P.

was leader of the gang. W.P. is not one of the nonviolent members. He was one of 13 who bombed a car in the Bronx in 1977. Ho explained to the writor that the gang was retaliating against a bully who had made fun of them.

while they were using sign language. W.P. had wantad to bnap him b4 By MICHAEL DALY Grab a cane and go to the entrance of the W14th St. IND station. Close your eyes.

Tell yourself you will keep your eyes closed until you reach E. 59th St. by train. Remember that, just three days ago, a blind man was thrown against a moving subway train at the 36th station in Queens. As you descend the stairs to the token booth, imagine all the killers, muggers and psychotics who haunt the subway system.

Then, knowing that at any moment a pair of hands could reach out of the darkness and grab yoa, find your way through the maze of tunnels and platforms that stand between you and E. 59th St. Do all this at rush hour, when the stations are choked with passengers, and-you will have some idea of what Ralph Smith calls "going to work." "You have to concentrate," Ralph Smith, a blind man who has been riding between W. 14th St. and E.

59th St. every workday morning for three years, said yesterday morning as he descended into the subway system. "You have to pay attention to the traffic patterns, the people patterns. There are a lot of echoes. You have to listen carefully." Tapping out a path with his aluminum cane.

Smith went through the turnstile and headed down the passageway leading to the LL train. The scuffle of feet told him that a herd cf commuters was approaching on his left. "People usually stay to the right." Smith said as he angled away from the crowd and climbed down to the platform. As he waited for the News Mei Finkelstein Ralph Smith on the IRT Lexingtoa Ave. local train.

train. Smith stuck close to the yellow stairway railing. "I always stay close to something Continue on page 7, col. 4 James Pacheco (r.) and another member of Crazy Homicides in habitat. one of the members decided that bombing ills car would do him more damage.

W.P. told of killing four men. all members of rival gangs. When asked if he was sorry, he wrote "No. Have black iBart.".