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I i i ftawnnsgo j.v, f.frMf'rx 1 I I i 1 1 i lilt -1 i ii i 118 A Different Story Stork Brings 5 2 Girls, 3 Boys A 25-year-old Washington Heights woman had five healthy but premature babies delivered by caesarean-section at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center yesterday afternoon. Dr. Harold Fox, acting chairman of the obstetrics and gynecology department, said the infants chances of survival were reasonably good, and said the medical effort required to deliver them was awe-inspiring. It was beautifully coordinated. The mother.

Ruby Kakkavis of West 189th Street, was in excellent condition after the infants were delivered 11 weeks early, he said. The infants, two girls and three boys, weighed between one pound 14 ounces and two pounds 14 ounces, and were all being cared for in the neonatal intensive care unit, where they were expected to stay for several weeks. The babies names are Anna, Aphrodite, George, Jimmy, and John Jr. Andrew D. Blechman between 10 and 15 people walking westward on President Street.

When they reached Brooklyn Avenue, Anderson testified he saw Rosenbaum get out of a car, in which three other Hasids were sitting. After he Rosenbaum got out of the car he said something to a youth who was with us and then he threw a kick, Anderson said. Anderson said Rosenbaum chased three or four of the group. Police officers have described coming upon the attack and seeing a gang of men surrounding Rosenbaum, kicking and punching him. During cross-examination by Assistant District Attorney James Leeper, Anderson said that he had not witnessed any rioting, chanting, bottle throwing or gunfire at the intersection where Cato was killed that afternoon.

At least nine police officers and news accounts have described a chaotic scene that included all those elements. By Patricia Hurtado STAFF WRITER A Crown Heights man took the stand yesterday in the murder trial of Lemrick Nelson to testify that he saw Yankel Rosenbaum provoke a fight with blacks, getting out of a car at Brooklyn and President streets and kicking three black men. Nelson, 17, is accused of fatally stabbing Yankel Rosenbaum a 29-year-old Hasidic scholar visiting from Australia on Aug. 19, 1991. Defense witness John Anderson, 24, who said he knew Nelson from the neighborhood, described a different scene than police who have testified.

Anderson testified that he joined a crowd that gathered on President Street after seven-year-old Gavin Cato struck and killed by a car driven by a Hasid, the accident that touched off the Crown Heights riots. Anderson testified he was at the front of a group of Bond Plan for Health Clinics By Mitch Gelman STAFF WRITER Faced with an impending health care crisis, the city turned to the state yesterday for help building comprehensive clinics in low-income neighborhoods. The city asked the state to approve a $250-million bond issue intended to entice non-profit hospitals and community organizations into the managed health care business. The bonds would be used to finance construction of clinics in inner-city areas pre-selected by the city, according to the proposal. There are economic development funds and housing development funds, Cesar Perales, deputy mayor for health and human services, said yesterday.

Consider this a primary care clinic development fluid. In a letter to Gov. Mario Cuomo, Mayor David N. Dinkins suggested that the states Municipal Health Facilities Improvement Program issue the bonds. Although Cuomo has not officially responded to the re quest, City Hall officials said he has agreed to cooperate with the project.

In the proposal released yesterday, Dinkins said the city would create a Primary Care Development Corp. to screen applicants for the funding and to administer the bond revenues. The Dinkins plan also would pump $17 million in city money into a fund designed to help the corporation select sites and the non-profit groups attain private and government grants to start their clinics. Perales said the plan is necessary for the city to meet state goals of having 50 percent of its Medicaid patients in managed health care programs in five years. The key to getting non-profit organizations to enter the health care business will be an attractive financing mechanism, he said.

Interest on the bonds would be covered by Medicaid receipts, according to the plan. He Carried a Big Stick HENICAN from Page 6 Fortune Toasts City THE ASSOCIATED PRESS New York Citys distinction as a global center for many industries garnered it a No. 5 ranking on Fortune magazines list of the best cities to do business in. New York remains the center of fashion, finance, advertising and media. Business rents and real estate prices are down, and foreigners are buying, Fortune said in its Nov.

2 issue. The magazine also touted the citys mass transit system, calling it something every city desires The subways are improved. Buses run everywhere and there are 11,787 taxis and two airports. Leland Jones, a spokesman for Mayor David N. Dinkins, said City Hall was pleased with the No.

5 spot and hoped that the article would get the word out around the world that New York is a great place to do business. Given the bad press the city sometimes gets for its many urban problems, Jones said he hoped the Fortune article would help restore some of the shine to the Big Apple. But Fortunes sidebar on the city was not entirely The magazine said New York has everything in the world you would want and a hell of a lot of things you dont want. Bias Crime in Bklyn By Russell Ben-Ali and Michele Parente STAFF WRITERS The assault on a 23-year-old Brooklyn man who was knocked to the ground early yesterday by an assailant who yelled anti-Semitic slurs has been designated a bias crime. Police said Menachem Chein, a Hasidic Jew, was walking outside 1474 Carroll St.

in Crown Heights about 3:25 a.m. yesterday when he was approached by a black male who asked him for a cigarette. When Chein replied that he didnt have one, police said the assailant knocked him to the ground and punched him while yelling anti-Semitic slurs. His attacker then fled. Chein was treated for facial cuts and bruises at the Methodist Hospital of Brooklyn and released.

The spate of anti-Semitic incidents continued yesterday when four teens were spotted scrawling swastikas on a Brooklyn synagogue. Also yesterday, the police announced the arrest of a Bronx man who who last week spray-painted swastikas cm a Jewish religious building and a clothing store, both on his River-dale block. Constantine Delia, 20, of 3640 Johnson turned himself in to police at the 50th precinct yesterday morning and was later charged with aggravated criminal mischief. Police said sometime Friday, Delia defaced a suo-cah, which had been built in observance of the Jewish holiday Succoth, and on a clothing store across the street on Johnson Avenue. Mayor David N.

Dinkins praised the work of Officer Patrick Callaghan, of the 34th precinct in Manhattan who while off-duty in the 50th precinct overheard neighbors discussing the incidents and shared the in cnpa at the Walkman tape players, all in fresh new boxes, lined up on the floor. All this was directly in front of a padlocked plywood door that leads to the new elevator shaft. The waterproof guy was coming, and I had to open the door, Thomas remembered. Dansby was told to move. He started screaming at me, Thomas said.

'You cant wait? You cant wait? How come you cant wait? Thomas shrugged and walked away. Yesterday morning, just before 7:15, White and Thomas were back in the Borough Hall Btation, getting their workday into gear. The way sound echoes around the station, neither one of them heard the three gunshots downstairs. But clearly, unmistakably, they could hear the words of the cop down on the platform, bellowing as loud as he could. Get a cop! Get a cop! Officer Larry Monte screamed from the lower level, where he had just Bhot Ricky Dansby at the bottom of the up-escalator.

Please dont leave! the cop yelled up at one departing witness. Dont let anybody touch the stick! Down on the platform, Ricky Dansby had already collapsed on the concrete, and the cop had handcuffed him to a pipe at the bottom of the escalator. Danby wasnt going anywhere, ofcourse, except for a ride to the morgue. But his stuff had all tumbled out onto the escalator, and without him it rode smoothly upstairs. The seven-inch black-and-white TV was on the escalator.

So were Danbys dirty white jacket and the over- stuffed tennis bag. When the stuff all reached the top of the moving stairs, it had nowhere else to go. It just sat there with the escalator moving behind it, waiting for someone to scoop it up. You could see half a dozen cassette' tapes Sheena Easton, Randy Crawford, a couple of others that were hidden by the bag. There were a few articles of clothing-jammed in the bag and a couple of magazines.

One was Spy. The other was Glamour. The Glamour was sticking out of the bag: And just enough of the magazines cover was visible to tell what one story was about. Stole it, I guess, said Amos White, a big man in an orange safety vest, who was working yesterday on the station mezzanine. You dont think he bought it at the store, do you? That was pretty much the consensus about Dansbys material possessions, which he carried around in a pillowcase and in a black Prince tennis bag.

But all the electronics gear wasnt the only thing people in the station remember Dansby dragging around. There was also the stick. Not a stick, exactly, more like a piece of lumber, maybe two-inches wide and three-feet long. No one could remember Dansby actually hitting anyone with the stick. But frequently, he had it with him, and he would wave it at the slightest cause.

Im not crazy, said Barry Thomas, a laborer from Local 731 who was woriung yesterday with Amos White. Im not standing by some homeless guy whos swinging a big stick around. White and Thomas are part of a construction crew thats been installing an elevator in tire Borough Hall station. This is part of the new federal law that says public transportation is supposed to be available to the handicapped. At an old subway station like Borough Hall, putting in an elevator is a very big job.

On Friday of last week, Dansby was in the station as usual. About 7 o'clock in the morning, he was standing by the pay phone right outside the workers quarters, doing business on the phone. He punched in a number, apparently beeping someone. In a minute, the phone rang, and Dansby looked rearfy to leave. Watch this stuff for me.

Ill be right back, Thomas remembered him saying. But he didnt come back until 2 o'clock in the afternoon, long after a station porter had cleaned up the pile. The porter, though, was nice enough not to throw Dansbys things away. After the long holiday weekend, the elevator workers came back to the station cm Tuesday morning. None of them was suprised to find Dansby there, too.

Except now he had laid out all his stuff on the floor of the station mezzanine. His Prince tennis bag was i thsrs jii a qJCSpdy.