Daily News from New York, New York • 3

Fegoldenpportunjty fl FBI agents would not say how they think the thieves got the keys. However, they noted, the plant was robbed of $100,000 in February by thieves who also thwarted the security system. There have been no arrests in that; heist Among the booty were finished and unfinished gold jewelry, sheets of gold and other precious metals. McDONNELL SAID the suspects were unarmed and offered no resistance when captured. Two were arrested in Yonkers; the rest were collared with the loot at a Paramus motel, an FBI spokesman said.

On Friday, agents trailed the suspects from New York City to the Treadway Inn, near the Garden State Parkway in Paramus, then followed helicopter, began watching some of the alleged gang members last Friday. The agents then observed the heist Saturday afternoon. At 8 p.m., the agents moved in, arresting eight alleged gang members at locations in Yonkers and in Paramus, N.J. "IT WAS A VERY professional job," said FBI spokesman Mike McDonnell. "The gang members were equipped with acetylene torches, burning bars, hacksaws and walkie-talkies, and they used several lookouts." But they simply walked into the Enca Industries Inc.

plant at 4510 Fur-man Bronx, using keys, and stroF led casually around the plant for "several hours," collecting the loot, authorities said. The gang left with several hundred pounds of gold and jewelry stuffed into 11 duffel bags, the FBI said. By DANIEL O'GRADY and THOMAS HANRAHAN FBI agents yesterday arrested a gang of "very professional" thieves shortly after a weekend heist in which they allegedly used keys to bypass an elaborate' security system and take $1.5 million in gold and jewelry from a Bronx firm, authorities said. One of the men under arrest, William Magaletta, 36, reportedly is a former narcotics detective in the Essex County, N.J., sheriff's office. He was dismissed from the force after he was arrested in May 1975 on charges of selling marijuana and cocaine and robbing dealers of their drugs.

The agents, using cars and a van and two other cars to the Bronx plant. Arrested by the FBI and charged with interstate transportation of stolen property were: Louis Piselli, 51, of W. 70th St; Benjamin Wonch, described as in his late 30s, no address given; Maurice Barsky, 62, of W. 66th St; Magaletta, of 45 Hollywood West Long Branch, N.J.; Ronald Bowon, 45, of Quebec, Canada; Talbot Murphy, 53, no address given, and Nicholas Roma-niuk, 45, of Montreal. Piselli who authorities said was convicted in 1961 of participating in a $50,000 fur theft in Paterson, N.J., and sentenced to 10 years in federal prisonwas arrested in a Yonkers motel with Wonch.

"The eighth man refused to identify himself, but he is in his late 40s," said' inem we next day as they drove in a McDonnell. mm Parade of pride peace By LARRY SUTTON Tens of thousands of homosexual men and women celebrated their sexuality yesterday by marching down Fifth Ave. in the 14th annual Gay Pride Parade. The marchers, carrying a variety of banners and signs, appeared intent on proving there are gay men and women in all walks of life. Groups representing homosexual teachers, doctors, students, writers and musicians proudly strode down the avenue, waving to friends and cdling out to passers-by to join the parade.

Police officials, who had feared a confrontation between the homosex tal marchers and religious groups, encircled St Patrick's Cathedral with more than 100 uniformed officers and closed the side streets surrounding the cathedral. Roman Catholic and Jewish groups had unsuccessfully tried to ban the parade or divert it from Fifth Ave. 8 2 a Mil -'Wil BITT ASIDE from a few shouting matches, there were virtually no incidents along the parade route, which started at Columbus Circle and ended TOM MONASTER 0MLV NEWS Thousands of marchers flood Fifth Ave. In 14th annual Gay Pride Parade yesterday. Their hearts reach out in San Francisco San Francisco CComhinM in Greenwich Village.

An organizer of an antigay demonstration near the cathedral reportedly squirted what she described as holy water at the marchers. The marchers did little more than shout "Equal rights for gay cops" as they walked by the cathedral. Some released balloons into the air. "After all these years, people are used to all this," said one officer. "It's no big deal anymore." Parade organizers said this year's See PARADE Page 23 Linda Boyd, co-chairman of the parade committee, said the AIDS theme was chosen because of its ramifications on gay and straight people alike.

"It's very sad that people are so afraid of AIDS," Boyd said. "People are always saying that gay men are sick, and now gay men really are sick." Tom Wicker, a victim of the disease acquired immune deficiency syndromefrom Illinois marched -wearing. T-shirt that read, I have AIDS not leprosy." gay rights in San Francisco staged a colorful parade of costumes and floats yesterday. Police had no immediate estimate of the crowd, but parade officials said 200,000 participated. pere was a sad theme underlying the festivities: The Gay Freedom Day Parade was dedicated to AIDS victims, and a group of AIDS sufferers rode a elf-propelled, pear, the bead the parade..