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At Tudor City parks, if a lunchtime letdown for non-residents a (- By PAUL LA ROSA nflUNGRY LUNCHERS and casual strollers i 4 Sh i IS' i 5 2 a 2i Bi irwiTiili lit inrf rn i Tk lirltilMHrMMmiflinl it Controller Harrison Goldin (I.) with Oscar Shaflel (2d left) and Vera Shlakman. With them Is Bernard Rless, another blacklisted professor. I 7i I were cau8it ofi-guara yesteraay wnen tney La Li were confronted by private security guards i at the entrance to Harry Helmsley's controversial i Tudor City Parks. Although the tiny twin parks on Tudor City Place, above First Ave. are private, many office workers had become used to spending their lunch hours in the quiet, shaded enclaves.

"What is this?" asked a surprised Mike Munno, holding a slice of pizza he had expected to eat in the park. "I thought there was no such thing as a private park in this town." Wrong, Mike. The Tudor City parks are both very private, as the signs to the entrances of both have always made clear. But now, to make the point a little more emphatically, a guard will be at the entrance of each park every Monday through Friday, 0 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The popular parks have been a frequent cause of controversy. Helmsley, who owns them, has threatened to tear them down for high-rise apartment buildings and the city has offered to trade him city-owned property for the parks which It would then open officially to the public. But today they are most definitely private. "The problem is that everyone was coming up here and leaving a mess," said a woman in the City management office. "Unfortunately, there are some people who don't know how to be neat" A spokesman for Helmsley said that the guards' were placed there to protect the tenants' property rights.

But not all tenants" view the lunchtime crowds as evil. "The lunch people were always orderly and clean. I think we can both use the park," said Richard Tully, a tenant and a member of the Tenants Association. That's not how it was yesterday. The guards asked anyone who approached the parks whether he or she was a tenant A "no" answer and the park was off-limits, which left a lot of disappointed strollers yesterday, who instead sat on cold hard steps nearby.

"It's one of the only nice places to go," said Bobble Tse, who hoped to spend her lunch hour there. The parks are still being fought over in the courts after talks collapsed on the city's plan to trade city property for them. If the swap ever takes place, the twin parks would be city property and officially open to everyone. For three blacklisted college professors the shadow of McCarthyism is lifted By DAVID MEDINA UDLEIY STRAUS leaned back and breathed 12? a sigh of relief. "I think this is the first time we've been ging to an organization deemed subversive by the State Board of Regents automatically lost his or her job.

And under a provision in the City Charter, any city employe who refused to testify before the courts or any government committee most particularly the U.S. Senate internal security subcommitteewas also fired. Straus, Shlakman and Shaftel were caught up because of their involvement in the College Teachers Union. "They asked if you were a Communist," said Shaftel, who lives in Sunnyside, Queens. "If you said 'no' and they had different information, that was perjury.

If you said "yes they asked you to name your friends. If you forgot any, that was perjury." In addition to the 39 teachers fired, 18 resigned before they could be questioned. One teacher committed suicide. Ultimately, both laws were declared unconstitutional. But a part of New York's intellectual elite was forced to join the working class to survive.

As they sat recently in the offices of Benjamin Zelman, their attorney, Shlakman and Shaftel looked back with a certain humor at life on the blacklist It was their way of exorcising the grief of the last 30 years. Vindication by the city, they said, was not nearly as Important as having survived the experience without compromising their principles or their Integrity. "One of the things I find with young people is that they can't really believe it happened," said Straus, the only one of the three who never went back to teaching. "My kids were 7 and 12. My wife was heartbroken at having to go out to find work and leave them alone.

The phone would ring at Continued on ooge able to look back on the past 30 years and laugh about it," he said. Straus, Vera Shlakman and Oscar Shaftel, all former professors at Queens College, were talking about the agony they endured for refusing to testify about possible Communist Party affiliations during the McCarthy-era investigations of the The three were among 39 city professors who were fired and blacklisted for invoking the Fifth Amendment In the city's school and college systems, 378 teachers and other employes were dismissed or "terminated their services" between 1951 and 1958 as a result of Inquiries Into their loyalty. Two weeks ago, the City of New York, acknowledging that injustice had been committed, awarded nearly $1 million in damages to 10 former professors, including Straus, Shlakman and Shaftel. Controller Harrison J. Goldin and Council President Carol Bellamy, the two officials who arranged the settlement, described the McCarthy period as a "stain on America's national conscience." Shaftel, 70, an English professor at the time he was fired, had been an Air Force intelligence officer In World War II.

He explained how the "chopping off of heads" took place. Under the so-called Feinberg Law, any school employe from custodians all the way up belon a II A I OENC KAPPOCK DAILY NEWS One resident (with dogs) likes the Idea..