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So they returned to Cooper Park and Kawaun gave his grandfather $7 that he had borrowed for the haircut; then he and Dondre went out again. In the sixth-floor hallway on their way out, Kawaun made fun of Dondres clothes. The two teenagers yelled names at each other. Then Kawaun grabbed Dondres hair, and Hawthorne put Kawaun in a choke hold. While he held his friends head, Dondre told detectives, he pulled a revolver from his pocket and shot Kawaun in the head.

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The government led by Corazon Aquino has been trying to recover $3 billion in money and properties it says Marcos fraudulently obtained as leader of the Philippines. The proceeds from the condo are to go to the Philippine Agrarian Reform Program to buy land for peasants, said Teresa Koxas, a member of the Presidential Commission on Good Government, the Philippine panel trying to recover the Marcos money. It is highly symbolic that the first of the stolen Philippine properties in New York to be sold is the former dictators home and that something so lavish will be redirected to a proper social use, said Franklin Siegel, a lawyer who has represented the government' Ferdinand and through the Center for Constitutional Rights, a nonprofit law firm in New York. The 10-room apartment, which has been on the market since July, was bought in 1976 for $688,000 by offshore companies controlled by the Marcoses. Antonio Floriendo, a Marcos associate who purportedly ran the companies, handed over the apartment, along with the 2 6-room Linden-mere estate on Long Island, and a six-bedroom house in Hawaii valued at about $2 million, as part of a 1987 set-tlempnt of The winning biidder for the Lindenmere estate has backed out of a deal worth more than $4.5 million, Roxas said.

The contents of the Olympic Tower apartment, including a Fontai ne- La tour painting that sold for $400,000, were auctioned at Christies last year. A house used by the Marcoses daughter while she attended Princeton University was sold in 1987 for $1 million. The Philippine government is also tiying to gain title to four Manhattan buildings formerly controlled by the Marcoses and sell them for about $400 million. Dallas Gatewood contributed to this story. AP Photo Imelda Marcos CO Imelda Marcoe' luxury, condo in Olympic Towers on 5th Avenue will be sold Monday after being on the market since July..