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828 TO OBITUARIES James Markham, NY Times Journalist Anthony Scaduto James M. Markham, 46, Paris bureau chief of The New York Times, apparently committed suicide yesterday in his Paris home, the newspaper said. Mr. Markham recently was promoted to deputy foreign editor of the Times and was to return to New York soon to take up his new position. NEW YORK CITY The newspaper's executive editor, Max Frankel, said in an announcement that Paris police believed the death was a suicide, but Frankel did not give a cause of death.

"We mourn the loss of a wise and perceptive correspondent," Frankel said. "Jim distinguished himself on many continents and almost every day made the Times a better Mr. Markham headed the Times' Jan de Graaff, 86, a horticulturist who hybridized wild lilies and helped make them one of the nation's favorite garden flowers, died of Parkinson's disease Saturday at his Manhattan home. Mr. de Graaff, a native of Leiden, the Netherlands, whose family had been in the wholesale bulb business since 1723, began his first lily experiments in 1938 at the Oregon Bulb Farms he owned in Gresham, at a time that lilies were wild flowers, difficult to transplant and grow.

Mr. de Graaff worked to commercially hybridize lilies that would be beautiful, hardy and easy to grow. In 1941 he finally produced what became the most famous lily of all time, Enchantment, a speckled hot coral lily with erect flowers; Enchantment made his reputation and his fortune. In later years, Mr. de Graff produced scores of other lily varieties.

Mr. de Graff wrote "The New Book of published in 1951, and was co-author of two other books on the bulbs. He sold his business in 1968 and moved to Manhattan. He is survived by his wife, Peggy, a daughter, Joan of St. Thomas, the Virgin Islands, a son, Alfred of Paris, and two sinters.

Dr. E. Hugh Luckey, 69, who was president of New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center from 1966 to 1977, died of lung cancer Sunday at New York Hospital. Dr. Luckey, who lived in Manhattan, had also been vice president for medical af- PEAK REFRESHMENT AP Photo Spy Suspect Confronted Suspect spy Felix Bloch, right, is confronted in a Washington park by a man, identified only as a Vietnam veteran, who called Bloch a communist.

Bloch, the No. 2 official at the U.S. Embassy in Vienna from 1983 to 1987, is suspected of spying for the Soviet Union. bureaus in Saigon, Beirut, Madrid and Bonn, West Germany, before he was assigned to Paris in 1987. While he was working in Saigon, his youngest child, Mark, now 14, was the last American born in the Vietnamese capitol before it fell to the Communists.

Mr. Markham joined the Times in 1971 after reporting for The Associated Press in New Delhi and West and vice president of Hospital. After retiring in clinical practice and was a Luckey had been dean of College from 1954 to of the college's medicine to 1966, a period during one of the first coronary hospital. Survivors inAnn Firger of Ridgefield, of Fredericksburg, L.I., and Robert of White and a brother. REGION fairs at Cornell University the Society of New York 1977, he continued his medical consultant.

Dr. Cornell University Medical 1957 and was chairman department from 1957 which he helped establish care units in a university clude a daughter, Linda three sons, John James of East Northport, Plains, eight grandchildren Robert Kaske, 68, a medieval scholar and Cornell University humanities professor, died of cancer Tuesday at his home in Ithaca, N.Y. Mr. Kaske wrote more than 60 scholarly articles and recently published a book, "Medieval Christian Literary Imagery: A Guide to Interpretation" that was praised as a work that will be influential among medievalists for many years. Mr.

Kaske, who was on the editorial board of "The Chaucer Review" and editor-in-chief of "Traditio," received his doctorate from the University of North Carolina in 1950, then taught at Washington University, Penn. State, North Carolina University and the University of Illinois before joining the Cornell faculty in 1964. Survivors include by his wife Carol, and two sons. Africa. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Princeton University, he was a Rhodes Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford.

Besides his son, who attends school in the United States, he is survived by his wife, Stephanie, of Intervale, N.H.; a daughter, Katharine, 17, who also is in school in the United States; his parents, who live in Moss Creek, S.C.; and a sister, Ellen, of Brooklyn. WORLD NATION Bernard Barenholtz, 75, a co-founder of Creative Playthings, the children's toy company, died of a heart attack Saturday at his home in Marlborough, N.H. At his death, Mr. Barenholtz was chairman of the Whitney Brothers Company, which makes learning materials for pre-school children. He he had been founder of Pyne Press, a book publishing firm in Princeton, N.J.

He and Frank Kaplan founded Creative Playthings in Princeton in 1950; the firm was sold to CBS in 1966. A collector of antique toys, which he had shown at more than 40 museums over the years, Mr. Barenholtz was the author of "Antique Toys 1830-1900." He is survived by his wife, Betty, two daughters, Joan of Manhattan and Susan Smith of Minneapolis and a stepdaughter, Nancy Mcgee, of Marlborough. Jan Victor Mladek, 77, a retired International Monetary Fund official who had been a member of Czechoslovakia's last non-communist government, died of cancer Monday at a hospital in Washington, D.C. Trained as an economist, he served in the anti-Nazi Czech army in France and England before becoming head of the exile Czechoslovakian government's monetary department in the Ministry of Finance.

He was vice chairman of the Czech delegation to the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference, which planned Europe's postwar economy and where the International Monetary Fund was created. He became an American citizen in 1960. Taxi Fare Hike Proposed TAXI from Page 3 Mutual Taxi Owners Inc. Under the current fare structure approved in 1987, a taxi passenger pays $1.15 for the first drop of the meter, 15 cents for each additional eighth of a mile traveled, and 15 cents for each minute spent traveling slower than 9 mph. Ronald Stoppelman, president of the Metropolitan Taxicab Board of Trade, which represents fleet owners, proposed an increase to $1.30, with 20 cents for each additional seventh of a mile and minute of waiting time.

Others, like Michael Higgins, publisher of the trade publication, Taxi Talk, urged increases as high as $1.50 and 25-cent increments. The TLC staff will present its recommendations next month and conduct a second public hearing in October. The TLC will decide in No- vember whether. to leave the fare as it is or raise it, TLC Chairman Jack Lusk said. Any increase could not take effect until 30 days after TLC approval.

The commission has "a completely open mind" about whether a fare hike is warranted, Lusk said, while acknowledging that a pending increase in New York City's bus and subway fares "will be one factor we consider." Lusk said that historically there has been an effort to keep a balance between cab and mass transit fares to avoid discouraging the use of mass transportation. "If there is to be any increase in fare, it makes sense to me to weight it toward the waiting time," Lusk said before the hearing. Elizabeth Roistacher, an economics professor at Queens College, also urged consideration of fare increases tied to "traffic congestion" issues. Higher fares in themselves might push people back to using mass transit, she said. Salesman Tells of Leona 'Fund' HELMSLEY from Page 3 lope to Vince Sclafani, Turco's assistant.

The one well enough," Pursley quoted Turco as saying. "They didn't have to do anything like that." But, Pursley continued, Turco said that "since we seemed so free to give our money away, in turn Mr. Turco takes the money and puts it in a vault in what he calls a slush Each month from March, 1985, to February, 1986, Pursley said, he delivered cash in an enve- time he was late with a payment, he said, he got a reminder telephone call from Turco. Pursley said he delivered the cash the next day. He stopped making the payments in February, 1986, after Sclafani told him Turco's office had been disbanded and the kickbacks "were going to end temporarily," Pursley "'He didn't know if it would be brought up again." The payments never resumed, he said..