Tawana `fake rape' story stirs tense N.Y.

NEW YORK The story of a white woman raped in Central Park by amarauding gang of black teenagers was knocked off the front page ofNew York Newsday Thursday for the first time in a week.

In its place was an exclusive report that Tawana Brawley, theblack teen whose allegations that a group of white men kidnapped andraped her had inflamed racial animosities last year, had confided toher boyfriend that she had made it all up.

Racial tensions in New York City were already near theflashpoint following last week's "terror in Central Park," as Newsdayheadlines came to call the attack that left a 28-year-old investmentbanker in a coma from which she is unlikely to fully …