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| - Services of Mead Data Central PAGE, 415, 411Tt. TORY of Level 1 printed in FUL. format. Proprietary to the United Press International 1986 October 25, 1986, Saturday, AM cycle SECTION: Regional News DISTRIBUTION: New York LENGTH: 565 wards BYLINE: By STEVE GEIMANN DATELINE: ALBANY, N.Y. KEYWORD: Debate i - Plans for the only televised debate in the gubernatorial race collapsed 4 Saturday when Republican Andrew O'Rourke, who spent months demanding a meeting a. with Gov. Mario Cuomo, withdrew to grotest the inclusion of a minor party ‘ candidate. O'Rourke said he would not appear Nov. 1 on statewide public television unless Cuomo drops a demand that Lenora Fulani, candidate of the tiny New Alliance Party, is included. ''No debate is worth dignifying the anti-Semitic positions taken by this | party's candidates,'' O'Rourke said in a telegram to Cuomo. - ae Right-to-Life candidate Denis Dillon also withdrew from the debate to protest - Fulani's participation, saying her positions were anti-Semitic and anti-democratic. The New Alliance Party is a qroug of New York City community activists that ; describes itself as progressive and independent and works for racial equality i and gay Fights. Party candidate Nancy Ross received 5,277 votes for governor in : 1982 -- 0.1 percent of the vote. wm Both cuondidates withdrew after the New York Post Saturday linked the party with Black Muslim leader Louis-Farrakhan and political extremist Lyndon LaRouche. Both candidates withdrew after the New York Post Saturday linked the party with Black Muslim leader Louts Farrakhan and political extremist Lyndon LaRouche. Cel ad see ‘tT urge him (Cuomo) strongly not back down whatever the pressure from right * wingers O'Rourke and Dillon,'' Fulani said. ‘White America must learn ... that A .. Stgeannots tell ; abla pApericans who our leaders. age, and who. we igo. respect. " a Ga: 4 O'Rourke, whose bid for a debate was thwarted by Cuomo’s unprecedented demands for disclosure of tax and law-client information O'Rourke gartially satisfied, and Dillon issued separate statements on their withdrawls. 4 G LEXIS NEXIS LEXIS NEXIS