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DATE: TUESDAY, March 10, 1992                   TAG: 9203100308
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Her attorney argued that a jail term would be a death sentence for Helmsley and her husband, Harry.

The judge was not swayed. "It's time for you to get realistic," said Judge Thomas Griesa of Manhattan. "There is a nation out there, and a community, and my job is to take into account the nation and the community in the enforcement of the law."

"I urge you to prepare Mr. Helmsley for the probable need to be separated from you," he added during a hearing Monday.

Her attorney, Alan Dershowitz, said Leona Helmsley "is in immediate risk of death" from acute arterial disease and that Harry Helmsley had become dependent on his wife.

New York Mayor David Dinkins left a hospital Monday morning with what he thought was the flu. But he was back by afternoon and feeling feverish after a bill-signing ceremony.

New York Hospital officials said he had had a bacterial infection. His doctors decided to order him back for more tests and antibiotic treatments. He was to be kept overnight.

Olympic figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi was presented with a key to the city of Fremont, Calif., Monday when she returned home after winning a gold medal.

Yamaguchi also received a marriage proposal from a man in the crowd at the airport, but she showed no interest in the offer.

She said the attention was a bit overwhelming; "I felt so much more comfortable on skates."

Across the continent, figure skating bronze medalist Nancy Kerrigan received a similar welcome in Stoneham, Mass., from about 20,000 people, a crowd roughly equal to the population of the Boston suburb.

Sylvester Stallone is quitting his suburban Los Angeles digs for more rugged property in the Rockies.

The "Rambo" and "Rocky" star heads a partnership that bought 160 acres in Telluride, Colo., for about $8.5 million.

He also purchased 11 ski-area lots at an average price of $334,000, the Los Angeles Times reported.