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i ss A Bargaining in Howard Beach Case 2 Suspects May Plead Guilty 3rd May Testify and Buonocore would receive youthful-offender status and would be sentenced to probation rather than jail time. Under youthful-offender status, which is conferred by the judge, the offenses will not remain part of their record. If they were convicted and sentenced as adults, each would face up to 4 years in prison. In exchange for the guarantee of lenient treatment, the defendants would testify in the upcoming trial about the statements they made to police that place the other defendants at the scene of the attack, the sources said. Another one of the accused teens, whose identity has not been disclosed, may be preparing to give far more damaging testimony in exchange for a dismissal of the charges against him, according to an attorney close to the case.

Please see ATTACK on Page 25 By Wendy Lin Last-minute negotiations in the second Howard Beach case may lewd to guilty pleas from two of the seven remaining defendants before the trial begins next Monday, New York Nevraday has learned. A third defendant also may turn state's witness against his friends in return for a dismissal of the charges against him, said an attorney dose to the case. Seven defendants remain to be tried in the case, which stems from the Dec. 20, 1986, attack by white teenagers in Howard Beach against three black men from Brooklyn. One of the defendants, Thomas Guc-riardo, 18, is charged with the attempted murder of Cedric Sandiford.

The remaining six defendants are charged with first-degree riot, a felony punish- able by a maximum term of 4 years. In the earlier trial that ended last year, three teenagers were convicted of manslaughter in the death of Michael Griffith, 23, and first-degree assault against Sandiford. Griffith was struck and killed by a car on the Belt Parkway as he was fleeing his attackers. For weeks now, defense attorneys in the second trial have been meeting 'with State Supreme Court Justice Thomas Demakos and attorneys from the office of state Special Prosecutor Charles J. Hynes on pre-trial matters.

Demakos imposed a gag order on Monday and none of the parties will publicly discuss their positions and negotiations. But sources say that Salvatore DeSimone, 20, is planning to plead guilty to first-degree riot and criminal facilitation and that Harry Buonocore, 19, is prepared to plead guilty to first-degree riot. DeSimone allegedly drove one of the cars to the site where the confrontation with the victims occurred. Sources say that an agreement has been worked out in which DeSimone UFI Photo Housing Complex Declared Landmark By Michael Moss Tudor City, the medieval-styled housing complex overlooking the United Nations, was designated a historic landmark district yesterday, a move that could protect gargoyles as well as stave off any new development scheme. Long-awaited and well-deserved," said Anne Lowenstein, co-chair of the Tudor City Association's historic preservation panel, which began prodding the city Landmarks Preservation Commission to act three years ago.

The designation besides requiring permission from the commission to alter any exterior or park in Tudor City effectively protects the complex, composed mostly cooperative units, from the dwgn of a more modemthinking developer. Tudor City, between First and Second Avenues and 40th to 43rd Streets, has faced previous challenges to its character. The estimated 7,000 people living in its red brick apartments, which builder Frederick F. French christened with names such as Haddon Hall, The Cloister and Windsor Tower, fought a decade-long war with Harry B. Hetmsley, a former Tudor City landlord who wanted to plop two 30-story towers onto the neighborhood's two parks.

A court last year ruled in the residents favor. Tudor City is the quintessential historic district, Lowenstein said. It has such a 'sense of that phrase that preservationists always use. It has character. Tudor City, a complex of 19 buildings, was built in the 1920a and derived it name from it distinctive 16th Century English architectural style, including such decorative motifs as arches, coats of arms and gargoyles.

The commission yesterday also heard strong support for giving landmark status to the Seagram Building and its Four Seasons Restaurant as an heir to the Seagram spirits fortune implored the city to protect the Park Avenue tower built three decades ago to house the firm. of Seagram founder Samuel Bronfrnan, also gently chided the city far not having preservation rules as strict as those Please see LANDMARK on Page 24 Tons of clothing from New York City cover a field in Peach land, N.C. An Outdoor Clothing Bizarre i 0 I By Clem Richardson Forget Seventh Avenue! Down in PeachXand, N.C., folks are carting off hot New York City fashions at bargain prices $5 for all you can carry. Its legal, too. Anson County Sheriff Tommy Allen made sure of that.

Whats bringing droves of people to a sunbaked, one-acre plot of ground in Peachland, about 30 miles southeast of Charlotte, is a 3-foot-deep pile of clothes, some new, some seconds, some, frankly, rags, left baking in the rural sun. There are five tractor-trailer loads out there; its knee deep, Allen said. There were about 40 cars parked out there, about 75 people, when we went out, but I think we came during a lull. Allen was mystified yesterday when deputies learned of the clothes. Actually, the clothes were free.

The $5 was a parking charge. Lee Wright, a Peachland used-car dealer who owns the acre lot where the clothes were dumped, refused to tell police where the clothes came from, police said. If you want to find out about my business, find out for yourself, Wright told reporters. Reporters dont have enough money to get me to talk about this. But the one trucker who brought five tractor-trailer loads of garments to Peachland told Allen the clothes came from North Atlantic International Ltd.

in the Bronx. The truckers contract was to take the clothes and dispose of them, Allen said. He contracted with a landowner to dump them there. Thats legaL Allen said North Atlantic International was an exporter of secondhand clothes. The firms president, Myron Waschitz, was not available for comment.

The sheriff said no law is being broken, so the sale can continue. But Wright will still have to cart away what he does not sell. He cant cover it up, Allen said. GiZSttierejUt, Anson County (N.C.) Sheriff Tommy Allen 1 CfiGIfit SIJ1 roUMtfj VTilM fJ 'Vl. 5TIH.