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THE RECORD A-3 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1987 School jobs threatened as talks resume Yesterday's talks were the third for Elizabeth and the second for Plainfield. The Plainfield union is seeking an increase of 19.75 percent over two years, while the school board there has offered 16 percent. Plainfield teachers want their average annual salary, now at $28,080, increased to the average for Union County $30,875. The union's request is about $800,000 more than the pay package offered by the school board. Kentz has ordered both unions back to work but the order has been ignored by most members.

to seek employment elsewhere, Potempa said. Potempa said Elizabeth could not afford to increase its offer of a 6-percent pay raise in the first year of the three-year contract being sought and 7 percent in each of the last two years. Teachers are seeking a pay raise of about 9 percent. The board is willing to consider ways to manipulate the overall pay package by shifting the areas in which the largest increases are given as long as the total amount of money involved does not increase, Potempa said. "Both sides have to be creative." meeting that he hoped a judge's threat to fire the striking workers would encourage a settlement.

Superior Court Judge Frederick C. Kentz Jr. on Thursday delayed fines against the employees and their union but said the strikers would be fired if they do not return to work by Oct. 5. "I think there's food for thought in this type of order that the judge handed out," Potempa said.

The teachers "have a lot invested in their positions' and should consider the loss not only of jobs but of seniority, pension plans, and benefits should they have mediator at Union County College in Cranford. Talks were scheduled at the same time in Plainfield. Elizabeth Education Association spokesman Donald Tarr said talks will continue through the night to push for resolution of the strike. Although the school district has hired some substitute teachers the strike, only make-shift classes are being held in the school's gymnasium, said Tarr. "There's no effective education ocur-ring in the district," said Tarr.

Elizabeth's acting superintendent of schools, Mitchell Potempa, said before the United Press International Striking teachers in Elizabeth and Plainfield went back to the bargaining table yesterday, threatened with fines and firings if their job actions are not ended soon. Some 1,300 teachers and 820 other union members have been on strike in Elizabeth since Sept 8 and 850 school employees in nearby Plainfield have been on strike since Wednesday. The Elizabeth Education Association and the Elizabeth Board of Education sat down for a 4 p.m. session with a state MjFTimg 150 protest racial attack Crowd heckles marchers A center of N. Y.

intellectual life gains protection The Associated Press From The Record's wire services McEnroe, Peter Jennings, Isaac Stern, and Helen Gurley Brown. Facing the American Museum of Natural History, the 1929 brick building with limestone and terra cotta trim has three towers and is bedecked with angels, dolphins, rams' heads, and winged chariots. Yesterday, officials broke ground for a major renovation of a building where the talents of acting greats Sidney Poitier and Ruby Dee were nurtured and where a collection of black historical documents has been housed. The project to expand the 1905 landmark building, home to the unique Arthur Schomburg collection of black historical documents, began under cloudy skies in a ceremony led by Mayor Edward I. Koch and Manhattan Borough President David Dinkins.

The program also earmarks funds for building a 380-seat auditorium and upgrading a project to uncover artifacts of the rich heritage of the city's black culture. An 80-seat theater will be constructed in the building's basement the original home of the American Negro Theater Company, where singer-actor Harry Belafonte, Dee, and Poitier started their careers, said Howard Dodson, who heads the institute now called the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. The building is off Lenox Avenue on 135th Street. It was established as the home of Schomburg's collection in 1925. rests were reported.

The march was organized by the New York City Civil Rights Coalition, a collection of civil-rights and community organizations. They were protesting a Sept. 2 incident in which three black teenagers were beaten by a gang of white youths in an apparently unprovoked, racially motivated attack as the three left their jobs at a neighborhood supermarket, police said. None of the victims were seriously injured. The marchers walked past the spot on Fktlands Avenue where the incident occurred.

Most of the marchers came from outside Canarsie, and residents said the protest would increase racial tensions in the area. "This march is doing nothing but causing trouble," said Joe Cal-luccio, who said he had lived in the neighborhood for all of his 33 years. "They're just causing more Jfriction." One resident who joined -the march, 26-year-old Debbie Wax-baum, said she was "dumbfounded" by the community reaction. "What is this? South Africa?" she asked. White residents said there was racial tension in the neighborhood but that attacks against whites go unreported.

"There's incidents both ways; but when it happens this way, it's a big deal," said Howard a 28-year-old resident Assistant Chief Joseph P. Cal-zerano, the commanding officer Jn the Brooklyn South patrol, said there had been about a dozen racial incidents reported in the area this year. 6 NEW YORK About 150 marchers flanked by an equal number of police walked through a hostile neighborhood in the Can-arsie section of Brooklyn yesterday to protest a racial attack, on three black teen-agers by a gang of young whites. "Tonight we're walking in New York City to make sure that every street in New York City is open to everybody," said Michael Meyers, an organizer of the protest. About 200 residents of the predominately white, middle-class neighborhood of single-family homes walked beside the marchers, heckling them.

They said the march was increasing racial friction in the neighborhood. The marchers, both black and white, chanted slogans like "Hey, hey, ho, ho, these racist gangs have got to go." Separated from the marchers by police, white residents chanted back: "Howard Beach! Howard Beach!" and "Go home! Go home!" a reference to last December, when a black youth was killed while running across a freeway in Howard Beach after a confrontation with a gang of white youths. A white youth, a resident of the area, held up a fistful of dollars, shaking them at the marchers and yelling, "Food stamps! Welfare dollars! Get them here." An 18-year-old resident was detained and issued a summons for disorderly conduct, police said. He had resisted police trying to break up a group heckling about 20 Guardian Angels after the demonstration, police said. No other ar NEW YORK The Algonquin Hotel, where the famed Round Table club of writers and other intellectual luminaries met during the 1920's, has been designated a city landmark by the landmarks preservation commission.

"The Algonquin Hotel played a significant role in the literary history of the city," said commission Chairman Gene A. Norman. "It graces 44th Street." The Algonquin, designed by architect Goldin Starret, has a redbrick Renaissance facade and three vertical rows of black, cast- iron windows. The landmark designation means that changes to a building's facade must be approved by the landmarks panel. The 200-room hotel, at 59 W.

44st opened in 1902, and its first owner, Frank Case, catered to writers and editors from the New Yorker and other publications. Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker, and Harold Ross were among the literary stars who gathered each week at the Algonquin. The second owner, Ben Bodne, bought the Algonquin in 1946 and sold it last June to Caesar Park Hotels, a subsidiary of the Aoki Corporation of Tokyo. The commission also voted unanimously to elevate to landmark status the Beresford apartments overlooking Central Park. The Beresford, 211 Central Park West at 81st Street, also has its celebrity tenants, like John ft AP FILE PHOTO The Algonquin Hotel has been designated a New York landmark.

Biaggi waits for verdict Jury at work in trial of N.Y. congressman United Press International exclusive Florida spa in return for help in rescuing the Coastal Dry Dock and Repair Co. Coastal was the second largest client of Esposito's insurance firm. Both men are charged with bribery, conspiracy, and interstate travel violations. Biaggi also is charged with obstruction of justice.

The two face possible 15-year sentences and $250,000 fines if convicted. The jury heard testimony from 16 defense witnesses and 10 government witnesses, listened to 53 taped conversations recorded secretly by the FBI, and spent three days listening to summations. The list of witnesses included Sen. Alfonse M. D'A-mato, who testified that the congressman was doing his job when he went to bat for the financially failing ship-repair firm.

A key tape in the government's case was a June 2, 1986, recording of a panicked phone call Biaggi made to Esposito minutes after the congressman was questioned by FBI agents about the two vacations he took to the deluxe Bonaventure spa near Fort Lauderdale. The government contended that Biaggi was attempting to coach Esposito in his response to agents about the trips. Biaggi also faces trial in Manhattan, where he and his son, Richard, 38, have been indicted on federal racketeering charges that include bribery, payoffs, tax fraud, and perjury in the Wedtech scandal. NEW YORK The jury in the federal bribery 'trial of Rep. Mario Biaggi and former Brooklyn Democratic boss Meade Esposito was scheduled to Return to court today for its first full day of deliberations following a weekend off.

The Bronx congressman and the former political kingmaker are charged in a influence-peddling Scheme to save a failing ship-repair firm that was a lelient of Esposito's insurance company. The 12-member jury deliberated for about five hours Friday before U.S. District Court Judge Jack 'Weinstein dismissed them for the weekend. The pan-el was scheduled to resume its discussions at 9 a.m. today.

Biaggi, in a television interview at his Bronx office yesterday, said that waiting for the verdict is "prob- ably the most excruciating, painful period of my life." In a two-hour charge Friday, Weinstein instructed the panel not to be influenced by the defendants' Biaggi, a Democrat, is 69, and Esposito is 80. During the trial, prosecutors charged that Biaggi accepted two vacation trips from Esposito for himself nd his female companion, Barbara Barlow, 46, to an IS. AP PHOTO EAST MET WEST: A father and daughter with Governor Kean on the Great Wall of China yesterday. Kean's visit to the People's Republic is part of a two-week trade mission to the Far East. QJtW BIFUBEFS stomach, said police.

Police believe he swallowed the condoms during a recent trip to Colombia, in hopes of eluding detection by the Customs Service on his return. BUS DRIVER CHARGED IN N.Y. WRECK COVINGTON, N.Y. The only person not injured in an accident Saturday involving a car and a bus carrying visitors from the state prison in Attica was the bus driver, who is being blamed for the crash, police said. The bus collided with the car and flipped over on a rain-slicked road in western New York, injuring 33 people, police said.

The tour bus, owned by Inter Circles Connections of Secaucus, was traveling from the State Correctional Facility at Attica to Manhattan and Brooklyn. The bus driver, Willie Jones of Brooklyn, was charged with driving too fast for conditions and with failure to keep right FROM THE RECORD'S WIRE SERVICES can expect their clergy to devote more attention to fundamentals of the faith following the American visit of Pope John Paul II, Cardinal John J. O'Connor said yesterday. Speaking to reporters after mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral, Cardinal O'Connor said he believed that the pontiff was "delighted" by the response to his tour.

The New York archbishop dismissed the notion that turnout for the papal visit had been disappointingly low, and said the faith of many people had been renewed. Like the pope, the archbishop is known as a theological conservative, and he accompanied the pontiff on the 10-day, nine-city tour. COKE-FILLED CONDOMS FOUND IN MAN NEW YORK Doctors at a Bronx Hospital found 46 condoms filled with cocaine inside the stomach of a man who was seeking treatment for severe abdominal pain and constipation, police said. Fidel Figueroa, 31, of the Bronx went to Lincoln Hospital's emergency room Saturday. X-rays led doctors to operate on Figueroa, and they discovered the condoms in his YOUTH CHARGED WITH SHOOTING COP NEW YORK A Bronx teen-ager yesterday was arrested for shooting an off-duty police officer who had tried to break up a mugging, authorities said.

A second teen-ager was arrested on a charge of participating in the mugging. The first youth, Chuvello Holly, 16, was charged with attempted murder of Officer Francisco Osorio, 25, police said. Osorio, an Air Force sergeant who is on extended military leave from the police department, was with his wife and child Friday night when he saw a group of males robbing a couple outside 665 Westchester Ave. in the Bronx, police said. When Osorio intervened, he was knocked to the ground and shot in the right side, police said.

He was listed in critical condition at Lincoln Hospital yesterday. Also arrested was Jason Rolland, 19, of the Bronx, who was charged with assault. CARDINAL STRESSES FUNDAMENTALS NEW YORK Roman Catholics in the United States OF THE DAY ft It's probably the most ex-' cruciating, painful period of my Bronx Rep. Mario Biaggi, waiting for a verdict in his bribery trial..