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1 0s Hasrorls said Stik tot Bo Harris told him it was in her car. In the car, the detective recounted, he found a weapon and five spent shells. LATER IN THEIR CONVERSATION and after she had signed a so-called "Miranda card" listing her rights under arrest, Siciliano said Harris blurted: "I love him very much. (But) I had it." The detective said Harris had gestured at that point and complained: "He slept with every woman." Siciliano's testimony came after Aurnou failed for a second day to have the press and public-barred from the hearing. In addition to seeking the suppression of statements given to police the night of the arrest, Aurnou also is seeking to have suppressed as evidence the alleged weapon reportedly found in Harris' car.

Aurnou is due to question Siciliano today. veteran of the force, testifying yesterday on a pre-trial motion in the Tarnower murder case, repeated the conversation he said he had recorded last March 10 when he interviewed Harris in Tarnower's Purchase home. SICILIANO WAS TESTIFYING specifically on a motion by Harris' attorney, Joel Aurnou, for the suppression of statements she gave to police the night of her arrest Siciliano told of rushing into the vestibule of the Tarnower home, after being called to the house, and finding Harris there. "The doctor has been shot," she told him. "He's upstairs." "Who did it?" the detective asked.

"I did," Harris allegedly told the detective. Asked where the -weapon was, Siciliano said By JOHN RA.NDAZZO and OWEN MORITZ The night of Dr. Herman Tarnower's slaying, Jean Harris the defendant in the case told the arresting detective: "I asked him to kill me, but he said, 'Get out of here, you Seconds later, she reportedly told the detective, she allegedly shot Tarnower. -I remember holding a gun and shooting him," she allegedly said. "He wanted to live.

I wanted to die." Then, when the body of the 69-year-old author of the best-selling book, "The Scarsdale Diet," was carried out, the former headmistress, 57, asked, "Is that him?" Told yes, the sobbing woman fainted in the detective's arms. Westchester Detective Arthur Siciliano, a 30-year 'z-'t- if I Mary E. Cunningham: 'I anj. confident about my own future." ONE INFLUENTIAL member of the MTA's board, City Council President Carol Bellamy, says she favored suspension of the projects if no other source of capital funds can be found to repair subway cars, lay new track and refurbish stations. "We have to have one priority right now," she said, "to preserve and maintain the present system." MTA Chairman Richard Ravitch described Bellamy's comments yesterday as "useful" and said that suspension of the projects is "being studied" as part of his effort to draw up an over-all plan for the system's capital needs.

He has promised the plan by the end ofthe month. At the height of the city's fiscal crisis, the transit system balanced its budget in large part by deferring maintenance of the subway and bus system. The price has been a dramatic increase in breakdowns that have made it increasingly difficult to meet and keep trains rolling. OFFICIALS SAY they will need hundreds of millions of dollars a year for the next several years to keep up with maintenance needs. Transit officials said there were a number of serious problems to Be resolved both political and technical before a final decision can be made on whether to finish the two projects.

Queens residents and political leaders are likely to fight for completion of their subways. One MTA board member, sympathetic to Queens issues, noted that the borough has the lowest per-person rapid transit service of any borough except Staten Island. By MICHAEL ORESKES City Hall turaM CMd The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is considering curtailing or even suspending construction of two partly completed Queens subway projects so the money can be used instead for badly needed maintenance throughout the crumbling transit system, the Daily News has learned. The two projects that could join the started but never finished Second Ave. subway on the list of ghost lines if other money for maintenance can't be found are: The Archer Ave.

extension, which would run from Parsons Blvd. in Jamaica with spurs to the remaining portion of the Jamaica Ave. elevated and to the Van Wyck stop of the IN'D and lines. The project is scheduled, for completion in late 1984. So far, contracts for about S2C3 million have been awarded and the total cost is estimated at S485 million.

The 63d St. line that would connect the Sixth and Seventh Ave. lines in Manhattan with Roosevelt Island in the East River and 21st St. in Long Island City. About $491 million in contracts already have been signed and the project, scheduled for completion in 1985, is expected to cost a total of $633 million.

A third Queens subway project, the Super-Express to run along Queens Blvd. parallel to the current and lines, is already essentially dead, transit officials said. No actual construction work has been done on it. She is resigned to her fate Southfield, Mich. (UPI) Mary Cunningham resigned yesterday from the Bendix citing "unfounded rumors" that she became one of the nation's top women executives through a romantic relationship with Bendix Chairman William Agee.

Cunningham's announcement came 10 days after the board of directors affirmed its "complete confidence" in her and refused her request for a temporary leave of absence as Bendix vice president for strategic planning. Women executives say Mary Cunningham had no choice she had to resign. Story on Pg. 33. In a statement released by the suburban Detroit-based company, the 29-year-old Harvard Business School graduate said the rumors substantially impaired her ability to function as a corporate executive.

The board of directors said it reluctantly accepted her resignation, effective immediately. AGEE, 42, SAID HER DEPARTURE "is, and will be, an important loss to the company." Cunningham, who is separated from her husband, joined the giant auto See MARY Page 27 After the Frlnsendam fire, many may ask, "How safe are the cruise ships?" Michael lacheita investigates in Travel. Also, News diplomatic correspondent Lars-Eric Nelson writes on the Islamic powder keg. also in Tf is nzvm EXILED POLE teaching in Berkeley, wins Nobel Prize for literature, this year worth $212,000. Page 4 U.S.

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