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3 said IIIIC spokesman Tom deal of information," By MIKE SANTANGELO Ricke. "We provided specifics on equipment and personnel as well as other matters. This meeting should put to rest any charges that HHC has not consulted with the community board on the hospital opening," said Ricke. While Loadholt admitted that there was a wide-ranging exchange of information; he said that the information proved that HHC was not prepared to open Woodhull. "They have a plan that would mean a 10-day gap in services between the time that Greenpoint was closed and Woodhull opened," said Loadholt.

"While HHC says they would provide care by diverting cases to other city hospitals, we know from experience that the delay would mean lives," said Loadholt "JUST LAST WEEK there was a knifing case where a matter of two minutes meant life or death." Loadholt also pointed out that HHCs plans to set up two satellite health care centers in the Greenpoint The Greenpoint Hospital. Community- Board is calling on the city's Health and Hospitals Corp. to hold off "next month's planned opening of Woodhull Hospital until December. The demand came after a six-hour meeting at Woodhull Hospital Sunday, during which HHC and board representatives tried to come to an agreement that would have allowed the long-delayed opening to finally move forward. "We are not trying to prevent the opening of Woodhull Hospital," said Herbert Loadholt, chairman of the community group.

"WE KNOW THAT THE hospital has to open and that Greenpoint Hospital has to be closed," said the chairman. "But we do not want the community to suffer lack of health care because of inadequate planning by HHC." "The meeting resulted in the exchange of a great Hospital neighborhood are still in the planning stage. "As far as the satellite units go, they haven't even found a building for either facility," said the chairman. HHC said last week that they had a possible site for one center but were still looking for a suitable location for the other. "What's more, HHC has not received ordered equipment and in many cases does not have an idea when the equipment will arrive.

HHC has admitted to us that they have not had state inspections and do not know when inspections will take place," said Loadholt "We do not see how they can go ahead with their opening plans under these conditions. If they put off the opening until December, inspections and equipment will be taken care of and the new hospital can open smoothly." Both sides will appear in State Supreme Court this morning before Justice William T. Bellard in an effort to reach a compromise that would finally allow Woodhull to open. Museum eyes replacement for Botwinick The Brooklyn Museum began a search for a new director yesterday after the announcement that director Michael Botwinick is leaving. The headed by long-time board of trustees member Alastir B.

Martin, will select a group of candidates to fill the post vacated by Botwinick, who is leaving the museum after nine qr vi 11 1 'iP" g'jjjo." w( tew mm mm mm cukm: vw. mh EO MOUNAH DAILY NEWS A tone cyclist wends, his way in search of his own thing through yesterday's showers and mist as the Verrazano Bridging ttlfc mlcf Bridge looms in a picturesque canopy just ahead. It lilt? could be a tear or a raindrop he's brushing away. GlhisipSoii' Drjamin By DANIEL HAYS years as director. Botwinick was named on Friday director of the Corcoran Gallery and School of Art, in Washington.

Yesterday, staff members at the Brooklyn Museum were of fically told of the decision in a letter from the director of the board of trustees, that named Martin to head the committee. Martin said through a spokesman that he has not met with his committee and would not have anything to say about its task until he had a chance to talk with his colleagues. The next step at the Brooklyn Museum will be to name an acting director until a permanent one can be found. "We could find a new director immediately said a museum staff member, "or it could take a whole year, as it did nine years ago." Botwinick will begin his Job at the Corcoran 1, succeeding director Peter Mazio, who has been named the director of a museum in Houston. Caroline Campbell, a spokesman for the Corcoran, said that Botwinick was chosen after much competition.

"The Corcoran is a Jewel and Washington gives a splendid opportunity for exposure," she said "Botwinick won over his competitors because of his solid record," added i The Washington museum spokesman added that the trustees of the museum found Botwinick to have "great sensitivity" that his personality was a "delight" Campbell said that the Corcoran had not con- suited with anyone from the Brooklyn Museum about Botwinick as far as she knew and felt that it would g-have been "a little out of line" to do so. "He was judged by professionals, not people he worked with," she said. Despite Botwinick's programs to bring larger numbers of people into the museum the Brooklyn Museum is still suffering financial difficulties that have necessitated staff cutbacks. Botwinick was born in the Bronx and grew up in New Jersey. A graduate of Rutgers and Columbia he has worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the and the Philadelphia Museum of Art Kiwanis New York District board of governors in 30 days.

"As of this point, I have not found anything that is untoward" He said he had been directed to make the investigation after district's board of directors met' earlier this month at its annual convention and articles concerning the Mill Basin-Georgetown club were brought to the board's attention. His instructions, he explained, were to conduct an objective investigation to make sure that the club was acting according to the group's guidelines. "WE ARE CONCERNED with the fact that the charter is used properly. If it is used properly then we would take no action. If it is not used properly then we would recommend action (against the Leahy said that his report will be confidential but that its conclusions would probably be available.

The lawyer has been "promised full cooperation by members of the club," he said. Asked whom he will contact, Leahy said he would talk to "anyone who can help me." He also indicated that the most drastic action a club chapter could face would be the lifting of its charter. Kiwanis policy, according to Leahy, does iiot bar membership to a former long as they live up to the standards of a Kiwanian We believe once a man pays his debt to society, we should take him back into society to prevent him from staying outside of it" 4 i State officials of Kiwanis Internationa! have begun an internal probe of charges that a rackets figure used meetings of the Mill Basin-Georgetown chapter as eover for contacts mob associates, a club attorney said yesterday. Richard Leahy, a Yonkers lawyer, said he had been assigned to conduct an investigation in the wake of news reports that John (Sonny) Franzese, 63, a reputed Colombo crime family captain had transacted loan-shark business and had sitdowns during club sessions with a number of criminal Franzese, as a result of FBI information about his activities at the club, was arrested on parole violation charges and on Sept 9 the U.S. Parole Commission recommended after a hearing that he serve seven years for associating with known felons.

GOVERNMENT WITNESSES testified at the hearing that Franzese during meetings at the Georgetown Inn had met with Carmine The Doctor) Lom-bardozzi, 70, reportedly a mob financial wizard and Gambino family member and Robert Cordice, another parolee. Frank Raf faele, the chapter secretary, when interviewed denied anything untoward had gone on at the meetings and said that Franzese always acted like "a perfect gentleman." 1 he expects lojeport hifind.ingS;to the..