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Newsday from New York, New York • 4

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Newsdayi
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New York, New York
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4
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This was all an unforeseeable accident and you dont prosecute people for unforeseeable accidents," said jury forewoman Lois Rogers. "This has changed my life and the lives of others, Tjmdia said. "This the verdict doesnt ghanga that. If convicted, Landis, Folaey and Allingham could have been sentenced to six years in prison. Stewart and Wingo could have received five-year terms.

I Later became i fiiinofttaHooptof joba tncUdad figuring toreWIbe land ir to ha. an' adorj before beginning work on fos-1 production aids of iandta IHalMndtaa hiring, budget) specialty Is Hs credits include rHseveri' is make-believe i in BGatoJChoft Eaglstknd a mariMl rf John Wayiwmovies. PaOMAMMfWmi So the tragedy of the accident made everybody stand back and reassess safety conditions." The jury had deliberated 82 hours over nine days, but half that time was spent listening to a rereading of testimony. The jurys action ended nearly five years of complex litigation and an acrimonious trial stemming from the tragedy, which struck at 2:20 a.m. on July 23, 1982, at the suburban Indian Dunes movie location 35 north of downtown Los Angeles.

It was to be the last night of shooting fin a wgwMtnt of "Twilight Zone: The Movie, a campi- Continued on Page 14 Prosecutor Lea Purwin DAgostino shook her tiaad slightly as clerk Sylvia Feline read the words "not guilty 15 timaa, enumerating all the charges. Tm shocked, appalled and disappointed," said DAgostino, who claimed her case was hampered because film-industry witness os were reluctant to testify for fear of being blackballed. Mark Locher, a spokesman for the Screen Actors Guild, said later, "I think the whole industry is relieved that the ordeal of this trial is over. The ereidant itself, in 1982, prompted a number of improved safety conditions in the industry Koch Continues War on Trump day, adding, "Hes not the only game in town. "But what Donald Trump is interested in is getting a package that is as rich as MM We cant rob the city treasury to provide Donald Trump with the dollars that he would like to take home at night.

He has to do it on Continued on Page 14 By Ron Davis Mayor Edward Koch was ready to go another round yesterday in his media fight with developer Donald Trump about city efforts to keep NBC from moving to New Jersey. But Trump would only say through a spokeswoman that he will respond point by point and Mow by blow next week. NEWSOAY, SATURDAY, MAY 30, 1087 Break of Dawn Breaks Away Piggy, piggy, piggy Donald Trump, is how Koch described the developer to reporters at City Hall for criticizing city officials efforts to retain NBC. The communications giant is considering moving to a site near the Meadowlands in New Jersey. The city has given NBC two packages of incentives to remain here.

One would deal with renovating NBCs current offices at 30 Rockefeller Plaza. The other is a "traveling package that would apply anywhere in the city regardless of the developer. Trump wrote a letter to the mayor earlier this week accusing him of having "no sense of economic development and calling on him to resign. Koch responded with a statement: "If Donald Trump is squealing like a stuck pig, I must have dome something right. "If Donald Trump were interested in the city then he would be talking about, Well, what does this package do for NBC7 not 'What does it do for Donald Trump? Koch said yester- al Marine, not to abandon the barge and its 8,186 terns of refuse from Is-lip, L-I-, and New York City.

"Lets just say I suggested to them that that would not be a wise or prudent measure aft this time, said Daron Gopstein, the citys first mriaTit ctutpnratinn hwumI. Duffy St. Pierre, captain of the Break of Dawn, said his initial instructions yesterday were to fiiel up for a possible return to lantriTia, but later he was told by the to stay with the barge. Michael Gordon, a lawyer for Harvqy Gulfi said the tug will remain with the scow. "I have no reason to believe it will not remain stationary, he said.

Harvey Gulf officials could not be readied. Harvey Gulf has said the stranded tug is costing about $5,000 a day. The tug and barge the latter owned by Florida company were leased by the owner or the garbage, Alabama entrepreneur Lowell Harrelaon. Hie has contributed to the stalemate by refusing to pay a $127,000 fire to laity to have the commercial trash dumped in a town landfill There was, in fact, more movement on the water yesterday than in the negotiations over the trash. "I hope we wont have to celebrate the centennial of the garbage barge out there, said Vito Turso, a Sanitation Department spokesman.

By Shirley E. Perlman and Peter Mark The Break of Dawn broke out of imitaty nmfinwiisntfer a couple of hours yesterday, but after a cruise around the harbor and engine trouble, the tug returned to the garbage barge Mobro to await the outcome of the talks over the fate of its cargo. Lawyers for the tugboat company said the severing of the 69-day-old tie between tug and scow was supposed to be a temporary separation for repairs and refueling. But city officials said movement of the vessels prompted them to warn the tug company, Harvey Gulf Internation.

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