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Newsday (Suffolk Edition) from Melville, New York • 3

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Melville, New York
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3
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Teen Slain in School Dorm Boy 16 found beaten to death at Orthodox Long Beach yeshiva By Nicholas Goldberg and Patrick Brule A 16-year-old student was found bludgeoned to death yesterday morning in his bed in his third-floor room of a Jewish high school dormitory in Long Beach Nassau County police An adult dormitory supervisor discovered the pajama-clad body of Chaim Weiss of 23 Walcott St Staten Island sprawled across the bed in his ingle room shortly before 8 am Weiss had been struck several times in the head with a blunt object police said They said the weapon has not been found The building at 63 Beech St is (me of several in the area that house the temple school and dormitory of Mesivta of Long Island an Orthodox Jewish yeshiva definitely Det Sgt Willard Krauach a police department spokesman said There's no apparent Other students said they last saw Weiss shortly before 1 am studying the Talmud alone in his room About 40 students reside in the dormitory The front door normally is secured by a combination lock at night police said An exterior fire escape provides access to the third floor but not directly to room Det Sgt Robert Edwards of the Homicide Squad said there were no signs of forced entry to the building or fil tllA wiefim'a mam UV aai I 2 to the He said it Ptaoto by Mika Alexander Follow students snd others QSther outside the building where the body of Chaim Weiss was found yesterday ed to study to be a Goldberg dents had been escorted from their Because yesterday was the when Orthodox room appeared Weiss was murdered while bed and perhaps while asleep There Sabbath Jews do not use automobiles police sent a miiif command van to the school to interview faculty and students rather than bring them to police headquarters Weiss a junior had attended the school for about 2Vfc years Chaim Goldberg 16 who said he was a dose friend or and who lived on the same floor described him as "one of the best-liked popular and smartest students at the He said Weiss played basketball a lot played chess in the dorm and had avidly watched the World Series thought he want- temple to their dormitonr by members of the Long Beach Auxiliary Police as a Halloween precaution "We are investigating the possibility that anti-Semitism played a rale but there is nothing to lead us to that Edwards said Rabbi Lesin said the school faculty and a pyachologist were meeting with students in continuing sessions in an attempt to allay their fears The dormitory occupants were moved to another building last night frightened and he said They don't know how to react I don't know how to The murder set off speculation in the affluent residential neighborhood that the crime might have been inspired by anti-Semitism and some people's dislike for the school where students wear the Orthodox garb of dark suits hats and outercoats Michael Burr who lives a block away and whose two sons 17 and 18 attend the school said that early Friday evening on Halloween some of the Jewish students were targets of thrown eggs and were chased home by other teenagers Det Edwards said that after the egg-throwing the stu- was no evidence of robbery he -M Rabbi Shlomo Lean executive vice president of the school said none of the dormitory residents had heard shouts or the sounds of a struggle during the night Homicide detectives yesterday used a vacuum device to smirch sewers in the neighborhood and raked fallen leaves and shrubbery in search of the murder weapon Failing Liver Perils Lovelace arty and gradually have built a comfortable but not affluent middle-class life "My husband and I are like the rest of Middle Marchiano said yesterday "We go week to week He's a spackler a laborer When he can he works six days a week just to tnefce ends meet Forty-thousand dollars beyond us for tY SUNDAY NOVEMBER 2 1986 "It is Merehiann Mid like helping people out and kind of hard coming out now end asking people to help me But if I don't get the help then my children have me I want to live I cant afford the During the past several years Marchiano has been hospitalized four times when her breasts become painfully inflamed the result her doctors told her of the silicone injections in 1973 More recently doctors discovered numerous lumps and Manrhiann went to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in early September for a double mastectomy necessitated because of the lumps although it has never been determined that they are cancerous troenterologist at Sloan-Kettering Mid yesterday that he could not discuss his patient Marchiano is scheduled to go to University of Pittsburgh Presbyterian Hopsital on Nov 10 for tests so she can be matched with a donor But the surgery Marchiano has been told will cost $200000 and it is unclear whether her insurance policy will cover any of the costa At best she said it will cover only 80 percent leaving her and her husband with a $40000 bill In aHJition she will have to spend at least $6000 for medication the following year to help her body accept the transplant which the insurance will not cover and pay fiur several visits to Pittsburgh Next will come the bills fix: the mastectomy While she waits Marchiano continues the suburban life she has worked hard to malm as imrmi possible She serves in the PTA and as class mother for classes that include her two children Dominic 10 and Lindsqy 6 going to be 16 Marchiano joked yesterday She lectures at colleges and testifies before government rtmunitforrs on the dangers of pornography And she maintains her hope do believe that if the good land is willing and the creek don't rise HI be she said "I really don't believe that God would let anything more happen to me He didn't bring me this far to take me away Anyone wishing to contribute can send a designated for Marchiano to the American Liver Foundation 998 Pompton Ave Cedar Grove NJ By Rebecca Morris Linda March iano who gained fa as Linda Lovelace in the 1972 movie "Deep and has since become a leading spokeswoman against pornography says she has been told by her doctors that she needs a liver transplant within four to eight months or she will die Marchiano who lives with her husband and two children on South Shore says she has also been told that she needs a double mastectomy bemuse of silicone injections she says she was forced to receive by her promoter but she cannot be treated until she gets a liver that can function during the operation And Marchiano needs money at least $40000 and perhaps much more for the transplant surgery alone Marchiano has said that she was held prisoner by her film promoter and forced to appear in Deep Throat Marchiano who reportedly was paid only $1250 for a movie that grossed an timatad $300 million said yesterday that she and her husband Larry started their marriage 11 years ago in pov- The surgery was not performed Mamhianft maid because blood tests and a biopsy revealed that her liver had deteriorated so badly that she needed a transplant Marchiano was told she has an nnninal form of hepatitis She was badly injured in an automobile accident in 1979 received a transfusion from someone with hepatitis and subsequently developed hepatitis herself Citing medical ethics Dr Moshe Shikes a gas.

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