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DAILY NEWS, SUNDAY, MARCH 2, 1980 i i To retiring Jee uTcfln lie IbsaE JIMMY He had been a cop for 30 years, and he had covered this same beat for the last 28 years and here, late in the cold afternoon, he was doing it all for the last time; in six hours he would be a retired man. "You're taking a drink," Red Deutseh said. "Not in uniform," Jim Sutcliffe said. "You're dying and I'm dying and you're taking a drink," Red Deutseh said. Sutcliffe ordered a straight Scotch.

"I'm a cop 30 years today and I've never had a drink in uniform," he said. He also had no difficulty in getting it down. This was in the Tube Bar, in the alley- off Journal Square in Jersey City. It is a narrow place that sells shots for 50 cents, has four bartenders, no stools and usually exceeds both the regulations and propriety of the Fire Department. The drinking on this day was being done in three lines.

One was pushed up against the bar. The second ran down the middle, from door to men's room. The third was against the wall, elbows on a small ledge. When a fight begins at the bar it usually spreads toward the end at the window, then skips to the line in the middle and runs all the way down to the men's room, then turns and goes humming along the wall of drinkers. BY THEN, Red Deutseh, the owner, an 85-year-old scoundrel in baggy pants with a long handkerchief trailing from the back butted his head into the face of at least one customer and Officer James Sutcliffe, badge 1214, Jersey City Police is bellowing at the front door.

"IF I HADN'T of gambled I'd be walking out of here with 10 million," Red Deutseh said. "So I'm walking out with one instead of 10." As Sutcliffe walked out of the Tube, a man by the window said: "I'm sorry I couldn't make your dinner last night; I hadda work." "Your mother was there, that's all that counts," Sutcliffe said. He walked down the alley with people saying hello to him. He is 60 now, with hair more white than gray and blue eyes in a face that is unlined and pink. A man was up against the wall and seemed to be -trying to hide something.

Sutcliffe poked his head in. "Just a cigarette, it's cold," the man said. Sutcliffe walked on. "You worry about handguns," he sid. "This gun lobby pays off the politicians and the cops get killed." Sutcliffe swung into the Commuters Bar.

The owner, Frank Hughes, was waiting with a camera to take picture. "This guy done good for Jersey City," Hughes announced to the bar. Sutcliffe, noticing that he was alongside a table where a man was passed out, moved over a couple of steps. He wouldn't want to embarrass theman by having a picture of him in this condition hanging on the barroom wall. SUTCLIFFE THEN went out into the evening cold and walked his streets.

He took the post 28 years ago, 3 to 11 p.m. in Journal Square, because, as he says, it was (Continued on page 60) -1 "I don't get into the fights here," Sutcliffe said. "Red takes care of them all himself. They used to call it police brutality. So we stay out.

And now the customers call it 'Red Red Deutseh threw his head back and then brought it forward like an old cannonball. "That's the Dutch in him, hard-headed," Sutcliffe said. "Have you had to get into a lot of scuffles around town lately?" Sutcliffe was asked. "No, I try to do everything by talking," he said. "The few times that doesn't work, then I give a right hand to the belly.

No jabbing around or any of that Right to the belly and you hope he falls. Otherwise it's 'Assist He shook hands with Deutseh. "Well, I guess this will be it" "I'll be out of here in two weeks myself," Deutseh said. "I know you sold it," Sutcliffe said. 54's studious lawyers lookin' to clean house JXVM 'X, IXM.

MH.J WI)IJ(lLJJHIm V' i I t'u I i Jury to probe Ham coke rap Washington (News Bureau) Special federal prosecutor Arthur Christy has convened a grand jury to investigate charges that White House Chief of Staff Hamilton Jordan used cocaine at the Studio 54 discotheque in New York, it was learned yesterday. John (Johnny Conaghan, the reputed supplier of cocaine to Jordan, has been cooperating quietly with Christy, sources said. They reported the jury has subpenaed ABC-TV News for film footage of portions of interviews with witnesses against Jordan that were not used on the air. It was not known whether ABC will comply with the subpenas. "Yes, we've been subpenaed, and we are studying the request," an ABC spokesman said.

In its Oct 4 telecast of the documentary program "20-20," the network broadcast interviews with Studio 54 co-owner Steve Rubell and Conaghan. The sources declined to say whether the subpenas of the were an indication that Christy is seeking to gather more evidence against Jordan or whether Jordan's accusers perjured themselves in lodging allegations against him. Jordan has denied sniffing cocaine during his June 1978 visit to the club or ever using the illegal substance. Joseph Volz By TOM POSTER Lawyers for Studio 54, the celebrity-studded disco that lost its liquor license because owners Steve Rubell and Ian Shrager pleaded guilty to tax evasion, are forming a new board of directors to run the disco. Former Miami police chief Rocky Pomerantz would be on the new board, it was learned yesterday.

Studio 54, meanwhile, will stay open, minus booze, and will serve fruit juice until its legal battle ends with the State Liquor Authority. The club's lawyers worked over the weekend to prepare New Jersey Lottery Pick It: 131 Straight Payoff: $222.50 Connecticut Lottery Daily: 427 New York Lottery lotto: 17, 6,28, 14, 12, 24 Supplementary number: 7 arguments for presentation in Manhattan Supreme Court Thursday, difficult to detail the exact steps being taken, but we're in a long-range fight to reverse the SLA," said one stockholder of 54. Rubell and Shrager are in the Manhattan Correctional Center serving 3-year sentences for skimming profits and dodging $350,000 in federal taxes. The SLA has refused to renew Studio 54's liquor license. One of the five SLA board members said it will also review assault charges involving the disco.

"We intend to hold public hearings into charges against Studio 54 that were filed by our general counsel, Warren Pesetsky, concerning seven cases of physical assaults, all of them violent, on the premises," the SLA member said. The lawyers for Studio 54 hope to influence the courts and the SLA by bringing in a new board of directors to represent the stockholders. In addition to Pomerantz, the new board will include Martin Pollner, a highly respected Manhattan corporate lawyer. Meanwhile, Studio 54 was still drawing celebrities who were hoping to help salvage the club. How long the celebs would carry on with fruit juice instead of booze was questionable, said an SLA Richard CorkeryDaily Newt Sly Stallone deals with a punch without punch at nonalcoholic Studio 54.

liioiese fail to fh' mayor Yet divisions show clearly. The model house Koch was shown with two floors, three bedrooms, comfortable furniture and a TV was miles superior to the simple one-room or two-room dirt-floored houses where many commune workers live. The "model, house belongs to Pari' Shin-gun, who manages the commune paint factory. He, his wife and WITH KOCH KM CHINA By BETH FALLON Staff Correspondent of The News Chiating County, China Ed Koch toured the prosperous People's Commune in this Shanghai suburb yesterday and reflected quite seriously that although it's a nice place to visit, he wouldn't want to live here. While he is enjoying China, the mayor said soberly: "This society is not the kind I would be happy in." The 25,000 people who live in this agricultural cooperative are a showcase for Chinese land reform.

They farm, raise pigs, chickens and other animals, operate a fish farm that produces tons of carp annually and make 300,000 yuan profit every year at their clothing factory. "I take a 44 long," Koch told the garment factory manager. In the rich Yangtze River delta, also watered by Shanghai's own river, the Huang Po, the communes are profitable and people live relatively well. But 85 of the earth's one billion Chinese live in similar comunities, many of them poor even by this country's standards. Chen Mei-da, 31.

tends ehickens for $35 a month; her husband gets slightly- more for tending pigs. Their housing' medical care and education is free. but his quarry squawked. "I got the one who's scream- ing," he said. Councilman Edward Sadowsky prudentlv passed.

What would she like Pan Yun to be when he grows up? Koch asked the boy's mother. A lawyer, a farme? chairman of the People's Republic? "We will have to seek the needs of the state she replied through an interpreter. "Let me tell you, I am not crazy about that response Koch said. "I think the state is best served by everyone following their natural bent. -K Tm not sure it's her own or a canned response Everybody says it here, whatever you ask about Every society has strengths and weaknesses, Koch said, and the urge to do your civic duty is a good thing But the balance between personal and state needs is better in America, he added.

sa'dThiS EOciety is not the kind Iwould he happy in," he The mayor also toured the magnificent Temple of the Jade Buddha and the fabled Garden of the Mandarin Yu Yuan. t0, geLth.e afternon off, but his Chinese hosts Cunningly added an acupuncture demonstration to his schedule. He fell for It They are indeed very clever these Chinese, three grown children have an annual income of 2,400 yuan or $1,680. The average Chinese farm worker makes $50 a year. His family is averaging more than $300.

No Potemktn Village "The house we selected to see, while neat had an eaun iioor, is.ocn saia, -but this is clearly not a Potemkin Village" a fake for visitors. Koch did the ultimate politician's number Tierer'he" kissed a baby, Pan Yun, age 9 months. City Controller Jay Goldin tried ta get into the1 act,.