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Koch in Pulpit for Cops By Caiyn Eve Wiener More than 500 black churchgoers in Brooklyn's Brownsville community listened intently yesterday as Mayor Edward I. Koch recalled two incidents of violence that ended differently last week for the police officers involved: In Manhattan, he said, officer Anthony LaGrutta shot and killed a 40-year-old woman who had lunged at him with a carving knife. And in the Bronx, the mayor added, officer Joseph P. McCormack chose not to fire his weapon at an armed man who had barricaded himself in his house and was shot and killed when a bullet from the man's gun ricocheted off a tree. "I tell you this just to give you some feeling for what cops go through and why it is so painful for me to go to the hospital to see a cop who has been killed protecting you, protecting me," Koch said, standing in the pulpit before congregants of the Brownsville Community Baptist Church.

The low-key, peaceful visit was one of the mayor's first appearances at a black church since his boycott last month of a congressional hearing on allegations of police brutality against minorities. His absence last month from the Harlem hearings had drawn heavy criticism but yesterday, at the church, the mayor received only warmth and applause. He said that a policeman's decision on whether to act or simply to react in the face of perceived threat "is all judgment. "Is his life in danger?" said Koch, referring to a critical question that guides an officer's actions. "Sometimes they make a judgment, as they did a few days ago, where they didn't think their life was in danger, and one of them dies." Koch also recalled for the congregants a more distant landscape of violence: the one he faced in 1964 when, as a young attorney, he served in the courts of Jackson, in the midst of a black voter-registration drive in that city.

"I went to serve as a lawyer in court because there were a number of black men and women and white men and women who were risking their lives to register black citizens who had a right and were not allowed to vote," Koch said. He said he was in Jackson the day the bodies of three murdered civil rights activists were found; he took refuge in a black church and prayed with its. congregation "because it was the only safe place for a white person like myself who had come from the North and who identified then, as I do now, with the black community and its demand for equality." The mayor's one-hour talk, filled with frequent references to racial harmony, meshed well with the day's theme at the church, which was "to learn to love and cherish," according to the pastor, the Rev. Harold Burton. One of the church members, Terry Alexander, said afterward that she believed that Koch's desire to win the black vote- in the next mayoral election "might have been part of the reason for his visit.

But that's okay as long as he does his job." Burton said that when Koch accepted the church's invitation several months ago, the mayor had asked him to avoid advance publicity and that he had respected Koch's wishes. NewadajDtTid L. Fokrau At the Brownsville Community Baptist Church in Brooklyn, Mayor Koch greets parishioner Audrey Berry as the Rev. Harold Burton Sr. watches.

10-Vehicle Pileup Combined News Services A 10-vehicle chain-reaction accident injured 10 people and closed a three-lane highway linking the Lincoln Tunnel and the New Jersey Turnpike for more than a hour yesterday afternoon. Thousands of cars leaving the Lincoln Tunnel backed up behind the accident scene on the roadway's westbound lanes as rescue teams and police attempted to clear the roadway. At least one of the injuries was reported to be serious, but details were not available, a spokesman for the Port Authority said. Five of the injured were taken to hospitals, but the injured were not immediately identified. The accident, on a rain-slicked roadway, occurred about 4:45 PM and involved eight care, a van and a bus, he said.

A minor collision triggered the chain-reaction accident, which occurred about midway along the two-mile viaduct that links the tunnel and the entrance to the turnpike, the spokesman said. Slick roads and poor visility contributed to the pileup, according to Port Authority police. Port Authority operations supervisor William Sawyer said pouring rain and heavy traffic at the time of the accident compounded the difficulties police had clearing the highway. TA Gets Funds to Fix Subways The Republican Benator said the TA will receive another $2.4 million to install an "automatic bus diagnostic demonstration system" at the Queens Village bus depot. The new system is designed to" improve engine maintenance.

By Charles T. Moses The Transit Authority has been awarded nearly $106 million in federal funds, as expected, to rehabilitate 11 subway stations and replace defective motor-operated subway doors, Sen. Alfonso D'Amato announced yesterday. 14th to Jump Rails maintain the city's economic base. "Without improvements to the mass transportation system of our city," he said, "we run the real threat of losing jobs, something we can ill afford to do." Speaking for the Transit Authority, Jeanne Edelaon, said that the grant was expected and that it was one of many that the authority receives in any year.

"We regularly apply for federal grants and this one was expected," she said. The stations which will be worked on are: In Manhattan, the 137th Street and the 191st Street stations on the Seventh Avenue IRT line; and the 23rd Street and 103rd Street stations on the Lexington Avenue IRT line. In Brooklyn, the Utica Avenue and the Clark Street IRT stations; and the Kings Highway station on the Brighton line. La Queens, the 82nd Street and the Junction Boulevard stations on the Flushing line; and the Ditmars Boulevard station on the Astoria line. Private bus operators will also receive $8.7 million in federal funds to purchase 299 new buses, D'Amato said.

The senator said the bulk of the $105,770,000 grant from the federal Urban Mass Transportation Administration will go toward work at a number of subway stations. This is a real victory for the straphanger," D'Amato said. "While we wont see overnight improvements, we will see substantial improvements on over a dozen subway stations." Steven Debrow of the Committee for Better Transit said that he believes that the most visible benefits of the grant will be improvements in the subways' car-door mechanisms. That has been one of the most serious equipment problems," he said. "Hopefully, retrofitting the mechanisms will improve service." D'Amato spokesman Gary Lewi said that the bulk of the grant is largely discretionary.

"That's what makes it special," he said. Lewi said that the money will go to the TA's five-year capital ex passengers were able to exit into the station, the spokesman said. The authority said southbound service was completely restored within an hour and northbound service was restored between 96th Street and 242nd Street but trains skipped stops at 103rd, 110th, 116th, 125th and 137th streets. The cause of the derailment was not known. TA officials have blamed the large number of derailments on deteriorating track, and have ordered trains to travel slowly at hazardous spots throughout the system while repairs are made.

Combined News Services Four wheels of a northbound No. 1 IRT subway train derailed yesterday while leaving the station at 137th Street and Broadway, becoming the 14th subway this year to jump the tracks, Transit Police said. No injuries were reported in the accident, which halted local service from 96th Street to 145th Street, the Transit Authority said. The accident occurred at 6:07 PM when a set of wheels on the first car slid off the tracks, a police spokesman said. Only two of the train's eight cars had left the station, so In the Bronx, the Burnside Avenue pansion budget.

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