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Bullet Ends Boys' Friendship 1 dead, 1 charged after teasing over clothes On Being Young and Scared in New York These school compositions were written by 13-year-old Kawaun Bethea, who was shot to death on Thursday. JHS 43 Kawaun Bethea Class 8-342 2-9-89 Being Young In New York It is tough being young in New York. Everyone tries to tell you what to do and what they would do. Everyone has a style if you don't go with that style you are called a bum. You have to learn to fight good, if you don't you are called a punk or sucker.

If you study to (sic) much they call you a book worm or they call you a nerd. Everyone has a philosophy of someone elses life our (sic) problem. Kawaun Bethea JHS 43 Class 8-342 2-6-89 My most painful remembrance Is when I almost got shot. I was playing in the lumber yard. I was throwing rocks at the lumber workers.

All of a sudden a truck pulled up and a man came out. We were just looking at him. He went in his pocket and pulled something silver out. We looked closer and it was a silver gun and he was aiming it for us. My friends and my cousin ran.

I just stood there looking at him then I ran. Kawaun Bethea's actual composition By Mitch Gelman A 13-year-old Brooklyn boy was arrested yesterday and charged with fatally shooting a close friend his own age who had made fun of his clothes, police said. lot was The found victim, Thursday Kawaun night Bethea, shot also once 13, in the head in a stairwell at Cooper Park Lawaun MS.45 Housing Project in Greenpoint, where 3-0- 81. he was staying with his grandfather. Class 8- Eight vials of crack were found in the me pocket of his gray ad parka, police said.

nest Early yesterday, police arrested A0 Dondre Hawthorne, of 340 Frost De Launder also in Greenpoint, and charged him Let Alt. J. wrot noobs as an adult with second-degree murhew A der. Police, who said the youth made a statement, gave this account of the a a Kawaun and Dondre had sudden incident: gone out and a anon come out he for couldn't a haircut find Thursday evening that but touch pulled up. We went a barbershop was at Lion open.

So they returned to Cooper pulled ad somethin ther Park $7 and that he Kawaun had gave borrowed his for grandfa- the Lie haircut; then he and Dondre went out, out again. tree looked closer In the sixth-floor hallway on their way out, Kawaun made fun of A Dondre's clothes. The two teenagers he yelled names at each other. Then it out Kawaun grabbed Dondre's hair, and und hold. While he held his friend's head, el stood Hawthorne put Kawaun in a choke there Lin Alen Dondre told revolver detectives, from his he pocket pulled and a shot Kawaun in the head.

Kawaun died in the stairwell. Please see SLAYING on Page 17 Imelda's 5th Avenue Condo Sold Buyer will pay $3.6 million By Harry Berkowitz The luxury 7-bedroom, Fifth Avenue condo once controlled by Imelda Marcos is being sold Monday for $3.675 million by the Philippines to an unidentified buyer, government representatives said yesterday. The apartment, on the 43rd floor of Olympic Tower, is the first of the New York properties once controlled by the former Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos and his wife to be sold by the government. The government led by Corazon Aquino has been trying to recover $3 billion in money and properties it says Marcos fraudulently AP Photo Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos 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 Roxas, 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 dictator's home and that something so lavish will be redirected to a proper social use," said Franklin Siegel, a lawyer who has represented the government 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 26-room Lindenmere estate on Long Island, and a six-bedroom house in Hawaii valued at about $2 million, as part of a 1987 settlement of lawsuits. The winning bidder 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 Fontaine-Latour painting that sold for $400,000, were auctioned at Christie's 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 trying 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. '92 6861 3 ca Imelda Marcos' luxury. condo in Olympic Towers on 5th Avenue will sold Monday after being on the market since July.

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