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She said she left the children to buy diapers. to sub By MURRAY WEISS and RICHARD ROSEN After months of haggling, the city and the Guardian Angels have hammered out an agreement that frees the city of any liability for actions by members of the volunteer subway patrol, removing the final stumbling block to granting the Angels semiofficial status. c-: Angels leader- Curtis Sliwa and Robert Keating, the mayor's criminal justice coordinator, confirmed yesterday that the liability issue had been resolved and that a final agreement would be completed this week or early next week. "First off, I think we're finally going to have our agreement with the city, and I think whatever problems remain -can and will be smoothed out," Sliwa said. Sliwa indicated that the Angels would take responsibility for theirown liability, if a member is injured on patrol or injures a civilian, for example.

He declined to elaborate on how this would be done. THE AGREEMENT reportedly will give the Angels the right to carry special police identification cards, make citizens' arrests and have free access to the subways while on patrol. It also would make the group part of the civilian patrol program, which includes tenant patrols and block monitors. The Angels, who are identifiable by their red berets and T-shirts with the group's insignia, would not carry weapons or enjoy full police powers. Keating said city attorneys and Angels representatives would meet today with Patrick Murphy, the Police Department's chief of operations, to work on operations orders that will go-out to police field commanders on how to deal with the Angels.

William McKechnie, president of the Transit Patrolman's Benevolent Association, who has been critical of the Angels, said yesterday, "We still believe firmly that more police is the only answer to the crime problem, but we are law enforcement officers, and we obey the rules and regulations." He added, "We also will enforce the laws, treating everyone equally." Navy sec 'y threatens Trident roqram over delays By JOSEPH VOLZ trie Boat did not improve production time and performance "by the end of this year," he would recommend alternatives. Lehman said he was particularly concerned that the delay of Trident, which would carry 24 nuclear-tipped missiles with a range of 4,800 miles, would "affect national security." Last week, however, a Navy spokesman said the Navy's nuclear capacity would not be weakened, because older and smaller Poseidon subs could be refitted for Trident missiles. Only Electric Boat has the capacity to build the huge Trident subs, which cost more than $1 billion each. Lehman said he anticipates that under any circumstances, the firm would complete eight Tridents. Newport News is the only other yard that is building subs, but Lehman said that the Litton Industries yard or at least one Navy yard might be able to build the smaller subs.

pi Kianirsf voir iraairi Washington (News Bureau) Navy Secretary John Lehman threatened yesterday to abandon the Trident strategic submarine program and move "toward a smaller sub if General Dynamics, the Trident manufacturer, did not improve its performance. The firm's Electric Boat division, at Groton, has fallen two years behind schedule in completing the first Trident the Ohio. Vice Admiral Earl Fowler, commander of the Naval Sea Systems Command, testified last Thursday that "serious quality control" problems have developed, such as use of the wrong steel and paint Lehman, in a hastily called Penta-' gon press conference, also announced that he was barring Electric Boat from bidding on three Los Angeles-class attack submarines and awarding the work to the only competitor, Newport News (Va.) Shipbuilding. NEWPORT NEWS has been building the attack subs for $98 million, compared to $148 million each at Electric Boat Lehman said yesterday that if Elec- City sues to block construction By JOHN TOSCANO News education editor wins 2 Mott awards Sheryl McCarthy, education editor of the Daily News, has won two first-place prizes in the 1980 Charles Stewart Mott Awards competition sponsored by the Education Writers Association. She won first place in the feature category for her in-depth report in The News on the death of a Bronx teacher who allegedly was murdered by a former student, and its implications.

McCarthy, also won in the magazine competition for her article in the Columbia Journalism Review on media interns. A grand-prize winner will be chosen from the first place winners on April 10. The 574 entries made it the largest competition ever for the association. i EL ft The city filed suit yesterday to block millionaire realtor Harry Helmsley from starting construction as soon as Friday of two high-rise buildings on the site of the Tudor City parks. Housing and Preservation Commissioner Anthony Gliedman said the court action was based on the rent-control law, which prohibits a landlord from withdrawing an "essential service" from tenants covered under the statute.

There are about 1,200 rent-controlled tenants in the Helmsley-owned buildings in Tudor City, Gliedman said. "The law states unequivocally that a landlord must continue to provide the services to which the tenants were entitled when they became tenants," Gliedman said. City housing lawyers are to appear in Manhattan Supreme Court today for a hearing on their motion. Gliedman said. A hearing is scheduled in the same court today on a suit brought by Tudor City residents to prohibit Helmsley from destroying the parks, which are on either side of E.

42d St at Tudor City Place, which is between First and Second Aves. HELMSLEY INFORMED THE TENANTS last week that an agreement he made with them last year to hold up construction indefinitely would be terminated on Friday, freeing him to start construction. The announcement came shortly after Mayor Koch withdrew his support from a plan to swap a city playground at the southeast corner of First Ave. and 42d St for the two Tudor City parks, practically insuring the plan's defeat and thwarting Helmsley's plan to build a 41-story apartment house at the playground location. Since then, city officials have been looking for other city-owned sites to offer Helmsley in exchange for the Tudor City parks.

Facing morals rap, congressman quits Washington (UPD Rep. Jon Hinson who is facing morals charges, submitted his resignation from Congress yesterday, effective April 13. Hinson, 38, was believed to still be hospitalized in Washington. He entered the hospital following his arrest by Capitol police Feb. 4 during a stakeout at a men's room in a House office building.

He is scheduled to appear in court March 27..