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'Saturday. September 5, 1987 DAILY, NEWS (B tog DM, Cecilia rich in gifts ANN ARBOR, Mich. -Little Cecilia Cichan is up and around as gifts and money continue to pour in for the lone survivor of an airliner crash that killed her parents, her brother and 153 other people, a hospital spokesman said yesterday. "She's out of bed a lot more and she's cheerful," said University of Michigan Hospitals spokesman Mike Harrison. "She's drawing sketches and watches TV." The 4-year-old girl from Tempe, is listed in fair condition after treatment for arm and leg burns suffered in the Aug.

16 crash of Northwest Airlines Flight 255. More than $107,825, 12,000 cards and 1,085 gifts have been sent to the girl from across the world, Harrison said. The Associated Press By RICHARD SISK looking out his window, spotted Rudd-Renault being dragged along the platform and pulled the emergency brake, police said. Dragged to death The previous Friday, Stella Romeo, 45, was dragged to her death when her purse was caught in a door of an train leaving the Kew Gardens station. The crew of the train was unaware of the accident and Romeo's body was found on the tracks by the crew of a following train.

At the Kew Gardens station, the platform is curved and has columns, and the conductor would have been unable to see Romeo; the 36th St. station has "no columns and offers a clear view up and down the platform, the TA spokesman said. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the Romeo accident, the 12th time this year that a rider has been dragged along a platform after being caught in a door, the TA spokesman said. Last year, there were 28 dragging incidents. He was taken to the City Hospital Center at Elmhurst, where he was treated for pains in the ankle, neck and back, according to spokeswoman Karen Crowe.

"He didn't have any injuries. He had muscle spasms. No broken bones. He was not seriously hurt at all," Crowe said. Transit police said Rudd-Renault had been getting off the fifth car of the northbound train when the doors closed on his right foot.

As the train began to pull out at 5 to 10 mph, the conductor, Daily News Staff Writer In the second subway dragging incident in a week, a 60-year-old man with a foot caught in a door was pulled 75 feet yesterday along a Queens platform before the conductor could stop the train. Paul Rudd-Renault of W. 71st Manhattan, came through without serious injuries in the 9:20 a.m. accident at the 36th St. station on the Queens Blvd.

line in JJjJ' By JERRY CAPEC1 and STUART MARQUES sc 'J-' 4 Pit 1 If 1 toy 1 V'v A' I I Pc 'A i Daily News Staff Writers Brooklyn Democratic boss Meade Esposito bragged he had made a good investment by sending Rep. Mario Biaggi on several trips to Florida, according to a tape played yesterday at their bribery trial. "It was good money invested," Esposito told business partner Joseph Martuscello in a secretly recorded conversation Dec. 20, 1985 six days before Biaggi left for the second of two Florida trips courtesy of Esposito. "Yeah, I did it last year, too." Biaggi is charged with taking the two Florida trips and a third to St.

Maarten as bribes from Esposito in return for help in trying to bail out Coastal Dry Dock, a major client of Esposito's insurance firm. Biaggi and Esposito acknowledge the trips but deny that Biaggi did anything in return. Brooklyn Federal Court jurors also heard testimony from Sen. Al-fonse D'Amato who said Biaggi and Esposito had asked him to help Coastal Dry Dock and Barbara Barlow, the redheaded former model who accompanied Biaggi to Florida. On other tapes Esposito bragged that he had "put" 42 judges in Brooklyn during his career and he and Biaggi lamented the plight of powerful city officials caught up in the Parking Violations Bureau scandal last year.

Spoke to Lehman D'Amato said he had spoken to Navy Secretary John Lehman at Bi-aggi's request and had asked Lehman to speed payments to Coastal on ship-repair contracts. D'Amato said it was not unusual for a congressman to seek his help but said he had not known about the vacations or that Coastal was Esposito's client Barlow, wearing a stylish black dress and silk shawl and accompanied by her fiance, California businessman George Huff, was a reluctant witness who frequently clashed with prosecutor Edward McDonald. She described Biaggi who is marriedas a "dear, loving friend I always found him to be very vigorous; he was in excellent physical condition." Blast the media Before court Barlow and Huff defended Biaggi and blasted media reports of Barlow's relationship with Biaggi. Huff accused the press of protray-ing Barlow's friendship with Biaggi as a "backstreet, illicit relationship." In conversations between Dec. 25, 1985, and February 1986 Biaggi and Esposito discussed the battle to pick a successor to City Council majority leader Thomas Cuite.

Esposito was upset that Bronx Democratic boss Stanley Friedman had turned his back on Esposito's candidate and was supporting the choice of Queens Borough President Donald Manes. The final conversation took place Feb. 10, 1986, after news reports linked Manes and Friedman to the PVB scandal. At that time Biaggi and Esposito realized that Friedman supported Manes' candidate because they believedManes had helped Friedman get rich in the PVB scandal. BAR3ARA BARLOW and her fiance, George Huff, leave court, mart alum daily news "Now I understand why (Fried- The guy helps put $2 man) couldn't go along with it," million in your Hey, my Esposito said.

friend, you know, I would do the "That's right," Biaggi said. "Once same thing." it happened (the scandal broke), I Manes later committed suicide..