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el.de gmca Another Posf-al offer in the works lit- 53 A fv7'y- t. -N THESE times we fight for 7m ideas, and newspapers are our fortresses." said Heinrich Heine. The 74-year-old Burrows was to the recent theater what Billy Wilder is to today's movies, a genius, but largely forgotten or overlooked. Tragic. A group of liberal and middle-of-the- road New York business people are busy now trying to put together a buying proposition for Rupert Murdoch's Post, which the Australian publisher must sell in order to begin building his television empire.

These New Yorkers are dedicated to keeping a third newspaper going in the Big Apple. They would try to return the Post to a certain respectability from its current outpost status as a sensational THE RUMOR was flying like wildfire that Woody Allen and his longtime love Mia Farrow were expecting a baby. Woody says this isn't so. However, Mia is adopting another child to add to her family and make eight She already has three from her marriage to Andre Pre-vin and four she has adopted. This woman is not only a marvelous actress, she is dedicated to the proposition of motherhood! AFTER The, Washington Post TV critic Tom Shales put Phyllis George on the griddle and then flipped her over two or three times for the insidious crime of asking the accused rapist Gary Dotson and his accuser-relenter Cath-leen Crowell Webb to hug each other on TV, the letters started pouring in.

Just about every famous person in the public eye has now told Phyllis they admire her for "being yourself on "The CBS Morning News." It seems viewers in general also liked Phyllis' attempt to be a peace maker, a lover instead of a fighter. Did anybody ever stop to think that CBS probably hired Phyllis for her generous and impulsive self? There are plenty of stuffed shirts in the so-called media. So hooray for a little unbridled positivism. It took Barbara Walters years before EO MOUNAf OMLV NEWS Mayor Koch helps Parks Commissioner Henry Stern celebrate park renovations on 14th St before Htzzoner became a lawman yesterday. Dum-de-dum-dum: Our mayor ask no quarter gives none By SALVATORE ARENA and LARRY SUTTON With Rubea Rosarto His name is Koch and he doesnt carry a badge, but he did organize a mini-dragnet on W.

14th St near Fifth Ave yesterday. Caught a homeless man allegedly stealing 21 quarters from the city. i "Just doing my job, Koch said. III 'Wllllli Martinez thinks he is working for himself. The limo stops and Martinez gets out Martinez motions to Officer Phil Isaacson, who is on patrol nearby.

Isaacson arrests the man, identified as Vincent Ferrer, 4L Ferrer says he lives in city shelters. He says he was only putting tape on the meter. He has 21 quarters in his possession. Koch gets out of his limousine and tells Isaacson he will be a witness if Ferrer's case comes to trial. "It is the duty of every citizen to be a witness if they see a crime being committed," Koch says.

ISAACSON TAKES Ferrer to the E. 21st St stationhouse for booking on criminal possession of stolen property, criminal possession of burglary tools and criminal mischief charges. The time is 12:20 p.m. Koch is in his Lincoln limousine after leaving the official reopening of Union Square Park. Two bodyguards and two mayoral aides are with him.

Koch looks out the window. "I'm kind of observant; I always look out the window," Koch says. "I see this guy who has a leather bag. like it could be for the collection of money. He's working with what I think is a wire, but I'm not really sure.

He's opening one of my parking meters." Koch turns to Detective Eddie Martinez, one of the bodyguards. He asks a question. "DO YOU THINK he is working for us, or do you think he is working for himself?" Koch says. I i iff 4 -A hnrt. nf'f ati kit -rrrn Phyllis George: Just being herself Mia Farrow: and newcomer makes 8 tabloid.

They would also shoot for a base readership of 500.000 upscale buyers in the five boroughs of NYC as well as New York State and would abandon Murdoch's expensive effort to turn the Post into a morning as well as an all-day newspaper with many editions. I understand this group has been talking to Jim Wieghart of the Scripps-Howard office in Washington, asking his advice. Wieghart is a former editor of the Daily News. Wieghart says he has nothing whatsoever to do with this group's financial plans. "I am not a financier, as you well know," he said.

But the news veteran says he would be interested to see what they can come up with and he might agree to return to New York in some editorial capacity if they get their project off the ground Power to them the world needs newspapers! And New York City, which had seven papers when I first arrived here in 1949, certainly needs at least three.1 MICHAEL CIMINO has kept a low profile prior to release of his new Dino De Laurentiis movie, "Year of the Dragon," but he has managed to raise his head high enough to make some waves by saying he wants co-screen credit with scripter Oliver Stone. (Stone wrote the much-praised "Midnight Since Cimino accepted the directing job based on Stone's already completed script Stone thinks this is for the birds. There is some doubt that the Writer's Guild will allow Cimino to take co-credit A MAN died last week, a master of comedy who came to mind almost every-time I went to see a so-called comedy in the theater anytime during the last 10 years. He was the director and writer Abe Burrows, a fellow who worked on some of Broadway's greatest shows, including "Guys and Dolls" and "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying." LeGeros changes his plea, asks confession be barred By LARRY COLE and BRIAN KATES CO she became one of the world's most admired women and the popular icon that she is today. It required love, marriage, twins for Jane Pauley to shake her cool image and become a hot TV personality.

Phyllis has to be herself and not let the cynics change her. OUTABOUT: Paul Newman and George Roy Hill together at Chatf owner Kim Chatfield asked Hill if he'd look at a screenplay by a friend and the director graciously obliged. Newman spoke up, "But only if the part's too old for Robert Redford!" Felli-ni's restaurant is getting the names-Jack Nicholson, who says he'd still like to make a movie someday and be directed by Orson Welles; Steve Garvey admitting he has a yen for politics when his baseball days are Judge Reinhold (that's his name, not his title) is the actor who gave Eddie Murphy a run for his money in "Beverly Hills Cop." Saw him at Wolfs 6th Ave. Deli and he says he has his first lead in the movie "Off Beat" to be made in NYC beginning June 3. Michael Winner will direct Judge and Meg Tilly, who was so killing him during a night of sadomasochistic sex on Feb.

22. Vesti's charred skeleton was found in March, clad only in a leather "bondage hood," on the grounds of the LeGeros family summer home in Tompkins Cove. LeGeros confession also implicated his boss, prominent art dealer Andrew Crispo, who has not been charged in the Vesti case. A grand Jury probing Crispo's role in the killing has been extended for a second time, according to Rockland County District Attorney Kenneth Gribetz. Yesterday, after modifying LeGer-o's plea from innnocent to innocent The lawyer for accused "death mask" slayer Bernard LeGeros changed his client's plea to innocent by reason of insanity yesterday, and moved to have his confession to the shooting thrown out of court The attorney.

Murray Sprung, sought to have the confession barred on the grounds that LeGeros, 23, did not have a lawyer present when he signed it "I think his (LeGeros') rights were violated," Sprung told reporters at Rockland County Court "He was questioned too long and he was not represented by co unset" In confession. LeGeros ted sbotLi ashion'stu-" denT EiI Vesti twice in the head and oy reason of insanity-Sprung, told 4 often found myself sitting tnrougn good in, Big Chill." Love Joan MondaJe'J whea people ask if. reporters, "Bernard didnt know What hnmhc nr stuitterinffmnie slava doings. Crispo brainwashed' "XixHJy Jtftlfiicals muttering. ever -again." Joan: him with dope and money." "Why didnt they get Abe Burrows?" "Run again? I won't even let him jog!".