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3 em iaipoigp L'f v.i fi r- i By ROBERT FLEMING l- II i i A 58-year-old Brooklyn building superintendent was beaten and stomped to death yesterday during an argument with a tenant over an illegally rented apartment, police said. A Iftv inffi nifliitMir 1 "Vl CmaRlES FRaTTini Daily nEwS Ribbon-cutting ceremony marks reopening of Sunset Park Poo! under sunny skies. Sunset Park in the hm 111 It's everyone Into the pool after ceremony. Detective Edward Johnson of the Ralph Ave. stationhouse said George Brent, of 1882 Fulton Brownsville, was pummeled to death at 11 p.m.

by Terry Lynch, 22, of 1854 Fulton Ave. The two had been cleaning out the cellar of the building and drinking with a third party when they got into a heated argument over Lynch's apartment, which police said Brent had been renting to him illegally. Once upstairs in the victim's apartment, they continued the shouting and shoving match until Brent threatened to evict Lynch, police said. After Brent told his tenant that he would not give him his deposit money back, Lynch started throwing him against the wall, smashing his head on the floor when the man fell, and then kicking and stomping him, police said. Brent was pronounced dead at the scene.

According to police, he suffered broken ribs and a broken sternum, and bled to death when the main aorta to his heart was torn. Authorities arrested Lynch and charged him with the murder. He said he thought only two of every 100 veterans in the Agent Orange case are opposed to the settlement, and thinks the men like Lewis "only represent themselves." He said he had gone $84,000 in debt while running his organization. Despite his suffering over Agent Orange, McCarthy said, he does not regret going to Vietnam to fight for his country. "I'm still proud I killed Commies," he told another veteran.

tals, and the striking workers Monday. The agreement, ratified by the employes at a meeting Tuesday at the hospital, aligned the medical group with the final settlement between the union and the League of Voluntary Hospitals. Gerken would not reveal any other details of the agreement. Girl slain by shot in park By ALBERT DA VILA A 17-year-old Red Hook girl was shot and killed early yesterday in a darkened park in Red Hook that has been the object of complaints during the last two years because none of the lamps there work. Sherry Bost, of 17 Lorraine Road, was sitting on a bench in Coffey Park when -she was felled by a single shot to her chest at 4:20 a.m., police said.

Her boyfriend, Preston Lawrence, 24, of 754 Henry Red Hook, told detectives that he heard a shot and that Best suddenly slumped on the bench. She was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics. DETECTIVES at the Union St. stationhouse yesterday were questioning Lawrence, the only eyewitness to the murder. They said no weapon has been recovered.

The park underwent a recent $375,000 beautification by the Parks Department, but protests have been voiced by the community over the failure of the lamps to work, leaving the park dark after sunset. "It is possible that this murder would not have occurred if the park was well lighted," said Msgr. Perfecto Vasquez, pastor of Visitation Church, which is located at 98 Richards across the 1L street from the park. IN A LETTER from Mayor Koch last April, Vas- quez was asked to contact the 5 Bureau of Electrical Control of the Department of Gener- 8" al Services, the agency re- sponsible for maintaining the lamps. Last June, the monsinor 1 was notfied by General Ser- vices that the electrical con- trol panel at the park had a been vandalized and that new equipment had been installed.

However, General Services said there had bee "a disruption of electrical services, which can only be repaired by Con Edison." mm ral years, was one of the 3,000 who came to get relief from the hot weather yesterday. "I came with my friends, who just went inside. On opening day, this place was packed," he said, pointing to the plaza at the pool entrance. after listening to two speakers talk in favor of the settlement. FRANK McCarthy of Manhattan, the president of Agent Orange Victims International, was at the court-.

house, but, like Lewis, he did not intend to speak at the hearing. "I'm here because the screaming meemies are here. these people come in their jungle fatigues looking for press," McCarthy said. has more than 350 employes, provides professional services at Coney Island Hospital under contract to the city's Health and Hospitals Corp. Edward Gerken, administrator of the group, said agreement was reached between the doctors group, which is not a member of the League of Voluntary Hospi- 0sp strikers.

By JARED McCALLISTER Several thousand young people cooled off yesterday afternoon with City Parks Commissioner Henry Stern at the official reopening of the popular Sunset Park Pool. Stern, who donned a pair of orange and green lifeguard trunks and took a quick dip in the newly refurbished pool, joined Brooklyn Parks Commissioner Julius Spiegel, State Sen. Joseph Montalto (D-Bay Ridge) and others at the ceremony held on a grassy lawn in front of the pool at Seventh Ave. and 43d St. According to Stern, the project began in October 1982, and the pool reopened to the public on July 30.

He said the cost to restore the 265-by-116-foot pool was $5 million. It cost $10 million to build the pool in 1936. "Outside, the pool looks about the same way it did in By DANIEL HAYS Ralph Lewis stood outside the Brooklyn Federal Courthouse yesterday as a judge inside heard opinions about the settlement of the Agent Orange case. A T-shirt Lewis wore advertised his feelings. "Sprayed and Betrayed," it read.

An army fatigue shirt half-covered the orange T-shirt. A First Airborne patch was attached. Lewis, 34, of 83d St. in Bensonhurst, had served in Vietnam's Central Highlands, where he believes he was sprayed with the Agent Orange defoliant that he said left him with indigestion and skin problems. Lewis, an unemployed delicatessen clerk, doesn't like the way lawyers reached the' arrangement for a $180 million fund to be paid by the defoliant's manufacturers to the veterans who sued and their families.

"WE WAITED 4Vz years to have our day in court, and they settled out of court, Lewis said. "If the settlement 1936, but inside you'll see it has changed in many he said. The restoration work included a general architectural rehabilitation, the reconstruction of the pool. Neighborhood resident David Simancas, 19, who hadn't used the pool for seve is approved, the chemical companies can wash their hands of it" He added, "Not one Vietnam veteran is on the lawyers management committee that settled the case." Lewis thinks Vietnam veterans "are being dumped on." "We don't get the right medical care," he charged. Lewis said he had not appeared before the judge because, "I don't like speeches.

I never wrote one." He walked out of the hearing ft About 115 striking hospital employes, members of District 1199 of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (AFL-CIO), returned to their posts at Coney Island Hospital yesterday after a "me-too" type agreement was reached between the workers and the Coney Island Medical Group. The Medical Group, which.