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Developer Tops Off Tall Tower BUILDING from Page 4 lengthy statement defending city land-use regulations. The commission rejected last-minute offers by Homstein, who is a former planning commissioner, to settle the matter with a cash payment to the city. Instead, it ordered Eichner to shorten the nearly completed building to fit within its permitted height. Then, earlier this year, the city proposed to allow Eichner to seek a new permit allowing the extra height if he built a dance studio in a narrow space adjoining the building. Eichner was willing to build the studio, which he and the city said would benefit the neighborhoods dance community, but the proposal sparked more controversy.

There is serious concern throughout the community groups and government about the propriety of that arrangement, Rose said. In the meantime, Eichner was permitted to continue selling CitySpire condos, and buyers were allowed to move into the lower floors of the building, which has been advertised as the lap of luxury. But the proposed dance studio deal didnt alter the Planning Commissions effective ban on finishing the upper floors of the building. Eichner obtained permission from the Buildings Department to protect, the structure from damage until he got a new permit and could proceed with construction. But the agreement was with the understanding he would not proceed on the dome itself, said Buildings Department spokesman Vahe Tir-yakian.

But Community Board 5 reported to the BuildingB Department that work was being done on the dome early this summer, and the agency in late July ordered Eichner to stop, Tiiyakian said. But by that time, the dome was completed. The delqy in the Buildings Departments response drew criticism from Community Board manager Joan Ramer, who characterized the citys move against Eichner as reluctant. Newaday Jefflety A. Balter Just Call New York Jump City The Double Dutch Jump-rope Finals of the New York Summer Games was held yesterday in Grand Central Terminal.

Above, the Queens trick jumping team Mecca Brunson, Sequana Wallace and Yattee Brown warms up. At left, Sakee-mana Saunders watches from the sidelines. Polish Troops Move Against Strikers POLAND from Page 9 greatly outnumbered and they resisted passively, he said. Before the police action in Szczecin, authorities had detained at least 10 people nationwide and threatened criminal charges against strike organizers. The strikers list as their most impor- There was crying and screaming there, he added.

Raids also occurred at streetcar stations and at the bus depot in Police, a city outside of Szczecin, Ziolkowski said. About 60 to 70 people were detained at each site, he said. The strikers were months. Romuald Ziolkowski, chairman of the strike committee at the Dabie bus depot in Szczecin, said that during the raid, the riot police were throwing strikers into police vans like pigs. Budget May Limit Pension Bill tant goal the legalization of Solidarity, banned since 1981.

We must fight for reforms. We must fight for Solidarity. There is no other way, Solidarity leader Lech Walesa told a crowd of young workers at the Lenin shipyard. The shipyard has been in ailing financial shape and is under threat of closure, but has symbolic importance as the birthplace of Solidarity. Walesa was spending the night in the Lenin shipyard with about 1,000 strikers, said union adviser Adam Michnik.

Some Gdansk port workers also began striking yesterday. A Solidarity spokesman, Jacek Huron, said 3,000 dockworkers in the city were on strike. Walesa blamed the strikes on authorities, whom he said have refused to engage in dialogue with workers. I wanted to avoid strikes, he said. We shouldnt be striking.

We should be working. But there was no other dunce. Weare still waiting for bus talks. PENSION from Page 9 did not have such a fund until legislation creating it was signed by Gov. Mario Cuomo last year.

But rather than earning money to supplement the pensions, the newly created fund was left with a $26-mil-lion deficit after the Oct. 19 stock market crash. The bill faring the Assembly cause of the tight city budget, leaders of the Democrat-controlled Assembly, normally sensitive to the urgings of organized labor, are un-about the legislation and may to prevent the bill from coming to the Assembly floor for a vote. It wouldnt surprise me, said one knowledgable official, if they held it back. which already has passed the Senate would change the effective date of the funds creation, giving it a fresh start of July 1, 1988.

Instead of using pension fund earnings to make up the lost earnings, the burden would shift indirectly to city taxpayers. Todays agenda for the Assembly Committee on Governmental Employees includes the bill. But be- i i i I I i.H.