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Board to Vote on CitySpire Beal City Hall. The city never allows people in the outer boroughs to buy their way out of an illegal addition by contributing to cultural affairs, and it shouldnt allow Ian Bruce Eichner either, said Joseph Rose, a community board leader who has championed the long fight against CitySpire. The integrity of city law aside, Eichners plans disclosed by his attorney to buy one of the 3-bedroom, all-glass penthouses with a tri-state view rubs salt in his critics wounds. The boards public hearing set for this afternoon looms as a raucous affair. By Michael Moss Ian Bruce Eichner is about to get a new address: a $2-million penthouse atop his 72-story tower in midtown Manhattan that, by city law, shouldnt even exist.

The problem is that Eichners tower, City-Spire, is roughly 14 feet too tall. Pending a vote today by the Board of Estimate, theres a deal that would require Eichner to shave some of the buildings sides and spend $2.5 million to build a public dance studio, in exchange for all of the illegal height and spectacular view. Eichner's critics call the deal a sham and view CitySpire as a tale of arrogance and greed, in which the wealthy are different from others: they get special treatment from Please see TOWER on Page 42 The city never allows people iiiitKe outer boroughs to' buy theihwaytpf illegal addition cultural affairs Ian Bruce Eichner either. vV- rsZ i. sjf jc VS Joseph Rose, a community board loader who has championed the long fight against CitySpire, right -f Chess Prodigy Chooses Freedom Announces his defection at tournament i By Barbara Whitaker 1 Until two days ago, 14-year-old Gata Kamsky was considered by many the most likely candidate to keep the world chess championship in the Soviet Union.

But his request for political asylum Tuesday on the last day of the New York Open chess tournament brought with it the hope that the United States may have found itself another Bobby Fischer, the only American to win a world championship. The teenager upstaged his win in the final round of the New York tournament by declaring his decision to defect from the Soviet Union, along with his father, Rustam Kamsky, who is also his coach. The younger Kamsky is a two-time Soviet national junior champion and was the youngest member of the chess delegation playing in New York. There are defections and then there are defections, said Larry Parr, a former editor of Chess Life and Review. There was a large Soviet delegation at the tournament in New York 14 top players and not a single one of them would have been news but Kamsky.

He showed his natural talent a couple of years Actress Steps Out Of Mold From the bar of her Russian restaurant off Times Square, Larisa Kaplan looked on in amazement at the beautiful, young Russian actress the Soviet Union's first sex star posing for pictures in the rear of the restaurant, and she sighed: She's a very brave girl and I am proud of her. She was talking about Natalya Ne-goda, 25, who is the star of a controversial Russian-made film called Little Vera. Negoda came to town yester-day to promote her film and her chaste iby Playboy's standards, anyway) picture spread in the magazine's current issue, predictably labeled That Glasnost Girl. She is the new generation of Russian woman, said Kaplan, coowner of the Russian Samovar on West 52nd Street, who was bom in Leningrad and lived there for 35 Please see Dl'GGAX on Page 35 NEWSDAY, THURSDAY. MARCH 30.

1989 Nemday Aubrey Reuben ar of the Soviet film Little Vera, Natalya Negoda. Please see KAMSKY on Page 12.