Reminders of Goetz While the shooting was reminiscent in some ways of the Bernhard H. Goetz subway shootings six years ago, the police said it differed significantly.

But with Mr. Kuby insisting yesterday on drawing out the defendant's views on race, population and violence, the subway shootings appeared almost as an expression of those views.

Mr. Goetz, a 41-year-old electronics engineer, spent 250 days in jail on a gun charge in the subway shooting.

Neither gun, according to Mr. Waples, was used in the subway shootings.

He had the faculty of whetting a listener's interest; and he was unfolding a keen description of the subway shooting, which Weston was accepting with eager ears.

"There was good and bad on different levels," he said of the subway shooting.

The advertisement, "Howard Beach Goes to Trial," featured two illustrations, one depicting public concern over subway shootings and the other showing a clothed skeleton in an abandoned elevator.

Mr. Goetz was acquitted of attempted murder in 1987 in the subway shootings, but served eight and a half months on a weapons charge.

There was blanket press coverage of the subway shootings, the surrender to the Concord police, the six-week trial and the acquittal on all charges except criminal possession of a weapon.

Parker receives an unwanted call from Cage, an old friend, and Cage tells Parker that he needs Parker's help with a letter based on the subway shootings.