The Reporter Dispatch from White Plains, New York • 8

A Section Gannett Westchester NewspapersThursday September 29 1988 RON MV 13 BRA MIEKrom page one Severe corrosion found on Queensboro Bridge The men also repeated their charges that New York legal system is corrupt and racist and they threatened mass protests and civil disobedience want to get out there and create some Maddox said during an interview program broadcast on WLIB a black com munity oriented radio station in New York City will turn this city upside Sharpton said the three black activists would lead a protest in Brooklyn this afternoon that will "make the whole city stand Giuliani challenged to debate At the news conference in ark Sharpton said the grand and the media us you thought break we have just begun to He challenged the grand jury and The New York Times to us one name of one witness that can establish that this was a i Mason challenged Abrams and US Attorney Rudolph Giuliani in Manhattan to the racist spokeswoman Debo rah Corley said Giuliani issued the following statement: "These people have! proven by their irresponsible words and actions that they cannot be taken seriously It would be inappropriate to dignify anything they say with a Timothy Gilles a spokesman for the attorney general said did not leak the grand juryi materials to The Times and he has asked the special corruption prosecutor Joe Hynes to investigate who He added: is not going to comment on questions of wheth er Tawana Brawley lied or not until the release of the grand jury Gilles said he could not comment on when the report would be released mother Glenda and Glenda live in boyfriend Ralph King were at the news con ference but did not speak Brawley and her family recent ly moved from Wappingers alls NY to Virginia Beach Va They drove to Newark after reading the story If Glenda Brawley were to come into New York state she would face arrest and 30 days in jail for defying a grand jury sub poena to testify in the investigation of her daughter alleged abduction and attack wish to thank God for saving my Brawley said yesterday holds my hand and He let me live to stop the cover up once and for The grand jury investigative summaries described in the Times present the case that Brawley was not kidnapped and raped as she claimed but fabricated the tale because she feared punishment from King A fistfight and a scuff le The grand jury which has been directed by Abrams the special prosecutor in the case will issue no indictments the Times reported The panel is not permitted to crit icize ordinary citizens whom it does not indict Sharpton called the re port a of reckless specula tion that was beneath a porno magazine to The news conference was punc tuated with shouts clapping and cheers for Brawley and her advis ers The small room at the Quality Inn was packed with television camera crews reporters and pho tographers Afterward a fistfight broke out in the hallway It could not be determined who was in volved Brawley her mother and Sharpton emerged from a hotel corridor rushed into a white ord Taurus and sped off but not before another scuffle between a camera man and a Brawley supporter Her lawyers followed in another car Brawley was found Nov 28 smeared with dog feces seemingly dazed and with racial slurs scrawled on her body Evidence presented to the grand jury led the panel to con clude that the teen ager was not abducted Nov 24 as she claimed but stayed at least part of the time in a nearby vacant apartment her family previously rented in Wap pingers alls or weeks after she was found Brawley misled doctors social workers the police and others with medical complaints and false ac counts of sexual abuse to cover up her actions the grand jury is re ported to have concluded Her exact whereabouts and her activities during the four days she was missing remain a mystery The grand jury reportedly spe culated that Brawley was motived by fear King would punish her for staying out late and that drugs and her relationships with shady characters may have played a role The Associated Press NEW YORK City officials said Wednesday they expect to reopen a lane of the Queensboro Bridge within days after repairs are completed on four corroded stringer beams of four corroded stringer beams The corrosion which is classi fied as or dangerous requires immediate attention be cause of its severity and because of the amount of traffic on the bridge according to executives at Stein man Boynton Gronquist Bird sall the engineering firm that contracts with the state said the lane on the Queensboro Bridge the span that inspired Paul Simons oatn Street Bridge Song Groo vy) carried only 3 percent of the 151000 cars that pass over the bridge each day He said it is open to cars only six hours a day and is used as a pedestrian and bicycle path the remainder of the time Two of the 81 year old 10 traffic lanes have been closed since ebruary 1987 for deck re placement Transportation Department spokesman Joe said the Queens bound lane is expected to be reopened by riday or by Mon day at the latest New York Newsday reported Wednesay that inspectors found holes along the full 32 foot length The corrosion is much less widespread than on the Williams burg Bridge which was closed this summer while repairs were made the consultants said YONKERS page one revolve around a contempt finding or appeals by the city against any other route Sand pursues The city has vehemently op posed the site and its use has been contested in court by the Catholic Archdiocese of New York The seminary conflict was among many reasons the City Council refused to implement a plan it adopted in January to carry out the court order In August and September: the city incurred contempt of court fines that totaled $819100 upshot is that we are going to reach a crossroads very Corporation Counsel Paul Pickelle said headed for a rough week in which some kind of alternate site emerges and a legal challenge In a memorandum prepared for city officials Pickelle said any ef fort by the 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