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However, the 6 percent hike confirmed by officials would increase the amount to be raised through county property taxes about one-third of the total budget to $40,280,000, or about $2.28 million more than in 1980. Based on existing tax equalization rates, the expected By KEVIN McCOY Staff Writer Rockland property owners can expect an average hike of about $24 in their county tax bills next year, to cover increases in a tentative 1981 county budget expected to be completed this week. The tax hike, the first of more than two percent in five years, would be required to cover the county's share of the fiscal package being assembled by Budget Director George Rene, county officials said this week. Although the budget is expected to be trimmed somewhat before final figures are set next month, several county legislators said inflation, negotiated salary increases and rising costs would make a 5 to 6 percent tax hike "almost inevitable." "There's definitely got to be an increase. You go four years in a row with virtually no increase and you know this has to happen," said Orangetown Democrat Edward bid V-N rv VjfcN- 1 tax AP Photo county By TOM RAL'M Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Lame-duck Democrats in Congress, firing a parting shot at victorious Republicans, are blocking GOP efforts to enact a Ronald Reagan-style tax cut before the president-elect moves into the White House.

Democratic leaders decided to call it quits by Dec. 5 after sharply pruning the congressional agenda for the post-election session that began Wednesday. Among the items jetisoned was a proposed $39.8 billion tax reduction for 1981 backed by Reagan and congressional Republicans. "We felt Mr. Reagan ought to have his time at bat," said Sen.

Robert C. Byrd, the outgoing majority leader. The tax cut fashioned by the Senate Finance Committee differs from the 30 percent reduction over three years proposed by Reagan, but the president-elect has said it would be "fine" with him if Congress went ahead and passed it. But the Senate plan had little support in the House, and Byrd said he changed his mind about seeking immediate action on it after conferring with Democratic colleagues and President Carter. Carter told Byrd and House Speaker Thomas P.

O'Neill Jr. he would veto the tax-cut bill if it reached him in his remaining nine weeks in office. And at an impromptu White House news conference, Carter said, "To try to hammer out a major tax cut would be inappropriate and I would do everything I could to discourage it." Senate Democrats decided earlier in the day against even considering the tax cut during the lame-duck session, leaving the issue for the Reagan administration and the new 97th Congress. While Republicans were still expected to press for enactment of a tax cut this year, the action by Senate Democrats seemed to make their quest a moot issue. Byrd and O'Neill, meanwhile, met privately Wednesday and decided to make the lame-duck session as brief as possible, handling only essential money bills and some issues already well on their way to passage.

O'Neill had predicted earlier INSIDE Action C2 Ann Landers C2 Around Rockland C4 Business B12.13 Classified D9-13 Comics C13 Datebook C4 Education BIO C10.ll Dems increase would property owner's five Rockland towns. In Orangetown, county tax load, at about county tax $411.62, a hike of cut Landing leap Members of the Bahamas Defense arrive at Cayo Lobos, the island Force where to force the Haitians to go back to their homeland. Story and photo on page A2. 102 Haitians have been stranded for a month. The Bahamians have been trying Rocklander victim of NYC slasher to describe him in great detail.

Police said the attacker was wearing a white ski cap and blue cloth coat, and carrying a cane or stick. He was described as a black man in his 20's, 5-feet-10 to 6-feet tall, about 170 pounds, with a full beard and mustache. Police said they were also looking for a young woman and a well-dressed black man with whom the assailant argued as the couple sat in a 1974 Cadillac double-parked outside the hospital. a word in five separate assaults near Bellevue Hospital. "It was a wild rampage," said Don Grimm, deputy director of Bellevue.

Police are reviewing records of those released from Bellevue to determine if the attacker might have been a patient there. One of the five, Helen Zaglen, 53, who was visiting the NYU dental library, was pronounced dead after she was stabbed in the neck and body. The first victim was Daniel Connelly, 20, of Queens, who was walk ing toward Bellevue when he was stabbed once in the arm. Moments later, Raymond Tu-thill, 31, a Bellevue X-ray technician, was stabbed in the chest. Miss Zaglen was the next target and five minutes later Wolfe was assaulted.

The final victim of the attack, Charles Cambridge, 64, was in critical condition at Cabrinl Hospital after undergoing five hours of surgery to close wounds in his back, abdomen and chest. Dwyer said police are anxious to locate anyone who saw the attacker since his victims have not been able President challenges Reagan cuts WASHINGTON (AP) -President Carter, hitting anew at the economic policies of his successor, says the only way Ronald Reagan's advisers could find 6 percent of the 1981 federal budget to cut would be to devastate programs to aid the nation's disadvantaged. "It's easy to say you can eliminate 6 percent, but you can't eliminate 6 percent of veterans' benefits, 6 percent of Social Security payments, 6 percent of defense capability," Carter said Wednesday during a surprise appearance in the White House press room. "If you talk about 6 percent of the total, you are talking about 35 to 40 percent of things that can be cut and that's an extraordinary reduction on things like Head Start. "So I doubt the accuracy of that figure," he declared.

Head Start provides services for low-income preschool children and money for research and demonstration projects. that the session might last until New Year's Day. Faced with near-certain GOP delaying tactics, Democratic leaders decided against using the lame-duck session to try to move pet projects through Congress. i The major "must" bills all involve federal spending. This includes an overall federal budget for the fiscal year that began Oct.

1 and 10 separate appropriations bills to allow major federal agencies to keep meeting payrolls and paying bills. Republicans will hold a 53-47 majority in the new Senate, reversing 25 years of Democratic rule. Democrats will retain control of the House, but by a sharply reduced 243-192 margin. TODAY Insight A13 News roundup A 4 Obituaries all ages Section Religion B8 Sports DI-9 14 Television C12 Viewpoints ghat's ahead Full Jersey reservoir topped, firm still wants county water From Journal-Newi Wires NEW YORK A Rockland County dentist was listed in satisfactory condition this morning at a New York City hospital as police continued a search for a mad slasher who randomly attacked five people with a knife on the Lower East Side Tuesday night. One 53-year-old woman died from a knife thrust to the throat, and four others, including Dr.

Robert Wolfe of 655 Route 9W in Upper Grand View, were hospitalized by the silent attacker. Wolfe, 42, was the unknown assailant's fourth victim in the 25-minute street rampage. A professor at New York University dental school, Wolfe was stabbed in the liver and diaphragm while walking to his car in a lot at 25th Street and First Avenue at 9 p.m. Tuesday. He was recovering today after surgery at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan.

"It's very vague. He's not really sure what happened," his wife Ellen said from her home this morning. "He's doing all right and his condition has improved." Meanwhile, detectives swarmed the city this morning as hundreds of callers told police they saw the assailant, but none has provided a solid lead on his identity. "He's been seen in Nassau County, Staten Island and we even got a call from a guy who saw a man fitting the description in Irvington, N. said Detective John Dwyer.

Police have set up a task force of detectives to investigate the five unprovoked stabbings, and hundreds of helpful citizens have called a special hot line to report sightings of the man police are looking for. Police said the attacker, who was armed with a hunting knife, itabbed his victims without uttering would allow distribution of 15 million gallons of water a day to PVWC customers, and save the same amount from the Wanaque Reservoir in Passaic County. Hackensack Water Co. spokeswoman Martha Green has said that any water gained by the move would replace water being drawn from Jersey City supplies, which will now be eliminated. On Wednesday, Ms.

Green strongly criticized delays by the state Department of Environmental Conservation in ruling on the water company's request to divert more water from Lake DeForest in New City to northern New Jersey. A decision is expected early next week. Ms. Green warned that Lake DeForest could reach its 1.4 billion minimum storage level in "a week or so" if that limit is not reduced as requested. The New "Jersey move will conserve water at the Wanaque, which is down to under 40 percent capacity because of the drought.

The low levels have necessitated water rationing by 2.5 million residents in seven North Jersey counties qince Sept. 27. Leopizzi's action also ordered the two companies' legal disputes and the issue of how much should be charged be settled in a later hearing. PATERSON, N.J. About 15 million gallons of water a day will now flow from a nearly full reservoir in Wayne to parched cities in northeast New Jersey, despite a 12-year-old dispute over water' rights and pricing.

Although the Hackensack Water Co. will benefit from the releases, the action is expected to have no effect on the company's request through its subsidiary, the Spring Valley Water that more Rockland water be diverted to New Jersey, said a spokeswoman for both companies. Superior Court Judge Bruno Leopizzi has suspended a 1968 court order preventing the flow of water from the 2.5 billion gallon Point View Reservoir to customers in Paterson, Clifton and Passaic. The suspension came Tuesday in response to a motion filed by Deputy State Attorney General Larry Stanley. The reservoir, owned by the Passaic Valley Water Commission, was described by Joe Santangelo, a spokesman for Gov.

Brendan T. Byrne, as "brimming full," even while supplies in other north Jersey reservoirs have been dwinding during the months-long drought. Santangelo said the immediate effect of the order.