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-t MKlgl-TU. SSsSSEftii Patriotic Blues ft By Ben Kubasik I am an American, and its my ntinl anthem, too, Roeeanne Barr told a packed Beverjy Hills news conference yesterday, lighting back at critics of her bungled performance of The Star-Spangled Banner prior to Wednesdays Reds-Pa-dres baseball doubleheader. Tm not the worlds greatest singer, she said. I'm not the wont, either. She said Bhe accepted the invitation from Padres chairman Tom Wemer (who also is executive producer of Barrs hit TV show Roseanne because she thought it was going to be fun.

I meant it with the best of intentions. she said. Im sorry some people dont like my singing. Barr said she believed she did well through the first seconds of her singing, before 30,000 mm at San Diegos Jack Murphy Stadium began to boo her because they apparently thought she was -mocking The Star-Spangled Banner. At that point, Barr said, it became difficult for her to go on and her voice became shriller.

It took all the guts I ever had in my lift to finish. Barr said die wanted to run off the field with her head in her hands, But Im not a quitter. She said that grabbing her crotch and spitting had been planned ahead with the Padres manage-ment, to parody what many baseball players are seen doing at lull parks and on TV. Barr said she Please see ROSEANNE on Page 11 Architects Level Donalds Plans I By Harry Berkowitz As if Donald Trump did not already have enough headaches HsttKng bankers, community groups and his wife, Ivans, now a prominent architects group is attacking one of the most ambitious and expensive visions of his financially ailing empire. In a special report issued this week, the American Institute of Architects chapter in New York recommends that the city infect Trumps plans to build a giant residential and office complex on his 76-acre site on the Upper West Side.

The report assails the so-called Trump City project, which includes plans for the worlds tallest building, a 160-story skyscraper, calling! much too big at double the size of a plan approved in 1982 for Donald Trump previoua devel-fi oper. The Sears 9 Tower in Chicago, at 110 stories and 8 1,454 feet, is currently the worlds tall-. eat building. New York's tallest build-3 ing, the World Trade Center, reaches 1,350 feet It also has 110 stories. The report also criticizes Trumps project for poor planning; including conflicting and inappropriate land uses, inadequate pedestrian circulation, 2 overpowering building scria; arbitrary 1 placement of public spaces, increased real lianee on auto usage, fragmented streets, overloaded arteries, and general separation from the existing neighbor- hood.

Although the 200-member architects chapter often comments on the de- Photo by Surrey The 13-block stretch of Hudson River shoreline that would become Trump City. City Owes Trump a Towering Sum used. The Court of Appeals rejected thet argument in 1984 after years of legal wrangling. Then the city argued that unlike the residential space, the commercial space filling the lower 18 floors did not qualify for the exemption. The city lost that fight in 1988.

Then the city tried to apply a less generous formula to the commercial space. The latest decision says the city By Harry Berkowitz Financially strapped Donald Trump should get a $6-mill ion-phis tax refiind from (Sty Hall, a court has ruled. In the latest of a series of defeats for the city in a decade-old dispute with Trump, the Appellate Division of the state Court of Appeals said this week that Trump must be paid additional refunds for overpaying taxes on the commercial space in his Fifth Avenue hixu- After construction on the tower be- Si in 1980, the battle over tax breaks ped fuel the personal and at times bitter feud between Trump and former Mayor Edward Koch. Originally, the city challenged the buildings right to any tax break under the so-called 421a real estate tax law, which was designed to promote development of underused sites. The city argued that the site of the luxury tower, where the old Bonwit Teller depart- A JPJeaafe see, TAX Qn.PacM lr skyscraper, TrvTower.j.

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